AEW: Wheeler Yuta In-Ring Return Announced for Wed’s Dynamite Show, Chuck Taylor In-Ring Career Future Update, Christian Cage on His Signing with AEW

Jun 5, 2024

Wheeler Yuta In-Ring Return & Blackppol Combat Club vs. Team CMLL Announced for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show

As noted before, Wheeler Yuta has been absent from AEW since this past January due to an undisclosed injury.

AEW CEO Tony Khan recently announced that Yuta was recently medically cleared for an in-ring return.

Khan also announced one new match for the card of tonight’s AEW Dynamite show at the Blue Arena in Loveland, Colorado.

This new match announced was an 8-Man Tag Team match of Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Bryan Danielson, & Jon Moxkey) vs. Magnus, Volador Jr., Rugido, & Esfinge.

TOMORROW
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
TBS, 8pm ET/7pm CT

BCC vs Volador Jr/Magnus/Rugido/Esfinge

The rivalry reignites when all 4 BCC @bryandanielson, Mox, @ClaudioCSRO + @WheelerYuta team on Dynamite for the first time EVER to fight their rivals from CMLL live on TBS tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/0hE5RjWyOy
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 4, 2024

Current card for June 5th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW World Championship – Roderick Strong vs. Swerve Strickland (c)
Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Bryan Danielson, & Jon Moxkey) vs. Magnus, Volador Jr., Rugido, & Esfinge
Mariah May vs. Saraya

Chuck Taylor Currently Hopeful for In-Ring Return Following Surgery

As noted before, Chuck Taylor’s in-ring career is currently believed to be over due to issues related to an ankle injury. Taylor last wrestled at the April 27th AEW Rampage show in a Parking Lot match against his former Best Friends’ tag team partner Trent Beretta.

A recent episode of AEW Close Up show on YouTube featured Taylor as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Taylor’s thoughts about him being currently hopeful of making a potential in-ring return in AEW following him undergoing surgery this summer.

“In October I believe, I injured my ankle originally. My foot was down and it was in a match on Rampage. I believe we were tagging with The Hardy Boys… We were tagging with The Hardy Men (he laughed) and I took a dropkick on the ropes and as I was going out, I left my ankle out and Jeff Parker, Angelo Parker fell on my ankle. It’s honestly my fault and I went to the doctor and they told me that I had a — they believed a bruised talus, which is apparently a bone inside your foot that connects these two to the rest of your foot, which I had never heard of before and some ligament damage and they thought I could possibly rehab it. I did rehab and it didn’t get better and I went back and I believe that I need surgery now.
I didn’t feel that lost or dark or anything like that (while out of action). I mean, I got to play some video games, I got to watch some movies, I got to hang out. I was still mostly on the road. I didn’t come off the road for that much because I’m trying to learn some more backstage stuff which I’ve always been interested in. So it wasn’t that bad, but then finding out that, like, ‘No, your career might be over’ is an odd feeling.
I can get surgery. Once I heal from that, I can hopefully reassess. Maybe it’s me hoping (he laughed). But we’ve seen a lot of guys and gals come back from that — ‘career-ending injuries.’
Weirdly, it doesn’t hurt that bad. I can walk fine. I wear a brace on it all the time now… I was in a boot for a while but yeah, it doesn’t really hurt that bad. I know if I tried to do a backflip and land on my feet which I used to be able to do, I think it would fall off (he laughed). Wandering around backstage for nine hours a day is fine.”

Taylor also gave his thoughts about being okay if his Parking Lot match against Beretta ends up being the final match of his career.

“Weirdly, if that is it, I mean, I couldn’t ask for a better way to go out honestly, like creatively (than facing Trent Beretta). To break up with my best friend, we’ve been together I think 11 years. 10, 11 years. To have Orange (Cassidy) there and (Kris) Statlander there and to have a match that we made, at least popular and famous in AEW. I know there have been other Parking Lot Fights in other places but we were kind of synonymous with that match I think. We had three. That was our third and to be able to say ‘sh*t’ on Dynamite that week and then get my dog on Collision and then go out and you know, if you would have told me I would have been able to do that even six years ago, I would have been like, no, no, absolutely not.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

Christian Cage Comments on Jon Moxley Being Reason for His Signing with AEW

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Christian Cage as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cage revealing that Jon Moxley was a big reason for helping him sign with AEW.

“A friend of mine, Jon Moxley, called me and we were talking and when he found out that I wasn’t signed he was blown away by that. And he said you should have a conversation with Tony Khan. I was like, I don’t know. And he said, Well, you’re actually an idiot if you don’t, you hold all the cards here. He said you have the ability to pick where you refinish your career.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about his current work and career in AEW.

“So like I said, when I got my career back after being retired for seven years, it was a gift to get it back. And it wasn’t just enough to get it back for me. Okay, I got it back, that’s great. Now, it’s like, how far can we push it? How far can we go with it? I had seven years of lost time to make up for, I didn’t feel like I had accomplished everything that I accomplished. Was I content with what I accomplished? Yes. But did I feel like I’d accomplished everything that I could accomplish? Not even close.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about having full creative freedom for his promos in AEW.

“I’ve never told anybody what I’m gonna say. Never had it cleared with anybody. I’ve never asked anybody, I just go out there and do it. It’s one of those things, you have to be willing to go places that others are unwilling to go in order to stand out, especially in this day and age. I saw an opportunity that I could jump on, I took it and I rode it, and sometimes things happen you’re not expecting to happen. I said one phrase and it turned into a wildfire. I just embraced it and ran with it.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about the future of his wrestling career and potential retirement plans.

“I always said that I would do it till it wasn’t fun. And that was my barometer on it. How can I not be having fun right now? have no timeline, I signed a contract. I think I have another three years left on this contract. So we’ll get to the end of that, and then see what happens. But you know, I feel like, I have a lot of knowledge. I feel like I don’t know everything, but I know a lot. And I feel like, I think the business differently and I layout matches and I see matches differently than other people do. I would like to, at some point, when the time is right to obviously give back to the business that has done what it’s done for me.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com