AEW: Kenny Omega “Important” Announcement & New Match Set for Wed’s Dynamite Show, Grizzled Young Vets on Loving that AEW Celebrates Wrestling, Jim Ross Health Update

May 7, 2024

Kenny Omega “Important Announcement” & New Match Set for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

AEW announced one new match for the card of this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

This new match announced was Chris Jericho & Big Bill vs. mystery opponents.

#AEWDynamite
THIS WEDNESDAY, May 8!
Edmonton, AB
LIVE 8pm ET/7pm CT | @TBSNetwork

After officially being accepted to sit under #TheLearningTree last week on #AEWRampage, #BigBill (@theCaZXL) will be in tag team action with #FTW Champion @IAmJericho WEDNESDAY on #AEW Dynamite! pic.twitter.com/hGX8to4GoU
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 7, 2024

In regards to non-match announcements, it was also announced that Kenny Omega will be making an “important” announcement on the show.

#AEWDynamite
TOMORROW NIGHT, May 8!
Edmonton, AB
LIVE 8pm ET/7pm CT | @TBSNetwork

After the beating he sustained last week in his hometown of Winnipeg at the hands of #theElite, what will EVP @KennyOmegamanX's Important Announcement be on #AEW Dynamite TOMORROW NIGHT? pic.twitter.com/pdweO9Rbf8
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 7, 2024

Current card for May 8th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW TNT Championship – Brody King vs. Adam Copeland (c)
Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Beretta
Mariah May vs. Harley Cameron
Chris Jericho & Big Bill vs. mystery opponents

Grizzled Young Veterans Comments on Their AEW Debut Appearance & Love that AEW “Celebrates Wrestling”

Cultaholic held a recent interview with the Grizzled Young Veterans’ James Drake and Zack Gibson. One of the topics discussed included Drake’s thoughts about the Grizzled Young Veterans recent debut appearance in AEW.

“One of the things with deciding to leave WWE, it’s just not leave and go, well, we will see with happens. It’s always actually pushing forward, we want to be everywhere. We made it work with TNA, now we did AEW. It’s pretty much that we want to make sure when you think of us, you don’t think of us as a former so and so, you think of us as our own entity and our own brand and look at the decorated career that we’ll have. We had a great time there, great conversations with Tony. The one thing that I love about that place is that it celebrates wrestling. First and foremost, it celebrates wrestling. If you can go, you will get your roses. That’s literally something that me and Zack have really prided ourselves on for a very long time.
I am 5’10 on a good day. I can probably get wider, but I’m not gonna get taller. I really hate how for a very long time in wrestling, something as silly as your height can dictate your future. It’s very silly when you think about the bigger picture and look at someone like — they’ll dictate it on a lot of people in wrestling. Oh, but Shawn Micheals. Oh, but Daniel Bryan. You let them shine with their ability and there’s so much more out there that they are just so talented. They’re wrestlers, they’re not models. They’re not trying to be these superhuman like Marvel characters. But, shows like TNA or shows like AEW, people tune in to watch your craft and then they decide, do we like them, do we not like them. It’s purely based on your craft. It’s very refreshing to say the least.”

Gibson gave his thoughts about AEW’s Tag Team division and praised AEW for giving their teams the time to shine and show out.

“Obviously when we came out, we said we wanted to be everywhere, we wanted to work with all of the best talents that are out there. You can’t go on record saying that and not end up at least trying to do work with the AEW tag division because that division is stacked. There are rumors of other people coming in, but look at the actual division right now. Acclaimed, FTR, Young Bucks, the list just goes on and on and it’s just top tier tag team wrestling that is given time to shine and show out and do proper tag team wrestling on TV with some real purpose. It’s an exciting place to get our foot in the door. We were both buzzing to be there. The Acclaimed, great opponents for us.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Jim Ross Health Status Update

Sports Illustrated held a recent interview with Jim Ross. One of the topics discussed included Ross provided an update on his current health status.

“My health is better than it’s been in over a year, I’m happy to say. My right hip, that’s healing and getting better. My radiation wound from skin cancer–and I’m cancer-free–is still healing. Vaping has helped. It’s allowed me to stop taking pain medication and get me through the night.
I’m feeling good. And I’m still doing what I love.”

Ross also gave his thoughts about his commentary retyrn appearance at this past March’s AEW Dynasty event.

“I had my right hip replaced, and it’s healing nicely, but my surgeon and I failed to schedule a follow-up, so I didn’t realize I had 28 staples in my hip.
It was my first trip after the hip surgery. I kept thinking to myself, ‘This is painful.’ I thought it was me. Really, it was the staples causing all the pain.
It was a very emotional night, and that pulse from the people at the Greensboro Coliseum was a great treatment for making my pain subside. Even if I knew I the adversity I was going to be in, I still would have gone. Sting means the world to me. I wasn’t going to miss it.
Everybody talks about Sting in WCW, but I met Sting when he was tagging with Rick Steiner–and before that, Jim Hellwig–in Mid-South. When Cowboy [Bill Watts] fired Hellwig, he made sure to tell Sting he was wanted. He’s such a natural babyface. It’s hard to boo the guy. So I dealt with the pain. There are people out there in this world who have it a lot worse than me.”