AEW: New Matches for Wed’s AEW Dynamite & Rampage Shows, Powerhouse Hobbs Knee Injury Update, Tony Khan on Goldberg Saying AEW Product is “Too Cheesy”

Two New Matches Announced for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

AEW announced two new matches for the card of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The first new match announced was a singles match of Samoa Joe vs. Isiah Kassidy.

TONIGHT, 3-Hours of #AEW Dynamite + #AEWRampage starts at 8pm ET/7pm CT on TBS

Samoa Joe returns to #AEWDynamite!

The King of Television, former #AEW World Champion @SamoaJoe returns to the ring for his first match since #AEWDynasty & he'll face #PrivateParty's @ZayKassidy pic.twitter.com/PycG47vLIe

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 1, 2024

The second new match announced was a singles match of Brian Cage vs. Claudio Castagnoli.

TONIGHT, 3-Hours of #AEWDynamite + #AEWRampage starts at 8pm ET/7pm CT on TBS#TheMachine Brian Cage vs Claudio Castagnoli

After @ClaudioCSRO's amazing Main Event challenge vs #AEW World Champ @swerveconfident on Collision, he will challenge The Mogul Embassy's @briancagegmsi pic.twitter.com/Hh3sbj31NV

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 1, 2024

Current card for May 1st AEW Dynamite show:

• AEW TNT Championship – One member of House of Black vs. Adam Copeland (c)
• FTW Championship – Katsuyori Shibata vs. Chris Jericho (c)
• Mariah May vs. Serena Deeb
• Samoa Joe vs. Isiah Kassidy
• Brian Cage vs. Claudio Castagnoli

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Jay White vs. Dante Martin Announced for Wednesday’s AEW Rampage Show

AEW announced one new match for the card of Wednesday’s AEW Rampage show at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

This new match announced was a singles match of Jay White vs. Dante Martin.

TONIGHT, on #AEWRampage following #AEWDynamite @ 10pmET/9pmCT on TBS@JayWhiteNZ vs Dante Martin

After opening the Inaugural Casino Gauntlet Match last week + colliding for the Unified Trios Title on Saturday, @lucha_angel1 goes 1-on-1 vs Switchblade for the 1st Time Ever! pic.twitter.com/eabGC1Nwgo

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) May 1, 2024

Current card for May 1st AEW Rampage show:

• Jay White vs. Dante Martin

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Powerhouse Hobbs Knee Injury Update

As noted before, Powerhouse Hobbs suffered a knee injury during his match against Jon Moxley for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at last week’s AEW Dynamite show.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources provided additional details regarding Hobb’s injury.

Those spoken to reportedly stated that Hobbs will be undergoing surgery soon to repair his knee, if he has not already.

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Tony Khan Comments on Goldberg’s Reason for Dropping Idea of Wanting to Work in AEW

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg stated in a recent interview with the 93.7 The Ticket radio show that he had been in talks with AEW for a potential appearance only to change his mind and drop out due to him feeling that AEW’s product is “too cheesy” for him.

A recent episode of the Superstar Crossover podcast featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about Goldberg’s recent comments about AEW’s product being “too cheesy” for him and how this was different than what Goldberg told him during their talks.

“Bill wanted to work here. I met with Bill several times. Bill was looking to work here. It’s funny because I had a bunch of really nice meetings with Bill and would have honestly been interested in doing something. I have a lot of respect for Bill. I was surprised by that because that certainly wasn’t what he said to me when he was talking to me about working here at some point, which I’ve always been open to and I really like Bill. It’s all about timing and we’re doing a lot of exciting things right now. Sting just finished up and went out on his own terms doing things he liked and felt strongly about. I know Sting and Bill are good friends. I really like Bill and have respect for him. When I saw that, Bill has talked to me about working here, so I don’t think he had any problem with any of that content and anyone who saw Sting’s send off has had positive things to say. I’m not sure what that was about, but I do respect Bill and I like him very much. I wish him the best and God bless him. He’s a great name in wrestling. I love what we do in AEW, and he’s entitled to his opinions. Certainly, when I talked to him in-person, several times, in-person and in Zoom and phone calls, we’ve had very nice conversations, and he hasn’t said that. It’s good to know that’s how he feels and maybe that’s an opinion he holds now, but certainly in our past conversations he’s always been a positive and nice guy.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com