AEW: Jake Roberts Provides Health Update After Being Hospitalized with Pneumonia, Two New Matches Set for 1/8 Dynamite Show, RUSH Absence & Backstage Heat Update

Jan 7, 2025

Jake Roberts Provides Health Update After Being Hospitalized with Pneumonia Last Week

A recent episode of The Snake Pit podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and current AEW talent Jake “The Snake” Roberts providing an update on his current health situation. Roberts stated that he is currently “doing a little better” following him being hospitalized with pneumonia last week.

“I’m doing a little bit better. I had a pretty scary moment last week. I got incredibly sick, and I wound up going to the hospital on Friday night. Don’t remember a damn thing. It’s pretty scary. Come to find out I had pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me. I already have COPD, and to get pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me. I already have COPD, and to get pneumonia is like you’re flirting with disaster there. I was in the hospital for four days, and very grateful to find out that I’ve got a couple of issues and I did not know. One is I had blood on my urine, didn’t know that. Another thing is, apparently I’m leaking blood somewhere in my gut, and that’s causing my iron levels to be low. That’s not a good thing. Then to top it off, I got a problem with my ticker. But by going in, I caught it, and we got to go have a couple of procedures done, and it’ll be all hunky dory then. I’ve got this cough, but I’m doing better. It’s quite the surprise, man. Next thing I know, I’m waking up in a hospital. That was weird.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Two New Matches Announced for Jan. 8th AEW Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced two new matches for the card of this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, Tennessee.

The first new match announced was a singles match of Buddy Matthews vs. Will Ospreay.

TOMORROW, 1/8
Clarksville, TN
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, TBS + Max@SNM_Buddy vs @WillOspreay

Buddy Matthews aims for revenge vs. the man who eliminated his partner from the C2 on Christmas: Will Ospreay!

Buddy vs Ospreay!
Don’t miss AEW on TBS + Max TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/XQkDmNwrNS
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 7, 2025

The second new match announced was a Women’s Three-way match of Kris Statlander vs. Toni Storm vs. Willow Nightingale. It was also announced that the winner of this match will receive the #1 spot for the Women’s Casino Gauntlet match at next week’s Dynamite Maximum Carnage show.

TOMORROW, 1/8
Clarksville, TN
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
8pm ET/7pm CT, TBS + Max

Winner Gets #1 Spot Next Wednesday at Maximum Carnage in Women’s Casino Gauntlet Match

3 Way Match@callmekrisstat vs Toni Storm vs @willowwrestles

Don’t miss Wednesday Night Dynamite TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/1fmID40E7x
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 7, 2025

Current card for January 8th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW World Championship #1 Contender Casino Gauntlet match – Jay White (#1) vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. TBA(s)
Women’s Three-way match – Kris Statlander vs. Toni Storm vs. Willow Nightingale
Mark Briscoe vs. Bobby Lashley
Buddy Matthews vs. Will Ospreay
Kenny Omega to appear
MJF to appear
Jeff Jarrett to appear

RUSH AEW Absence & Backstage Heat Status Update

As noted before, La Faccion Ingobernable’s RUSH and Dralistico have been absent from AEW since this past November due to backstage heat issues following an incident involving the two during a match on the November 15th episode of AEW Rampage.

RUSH recently provided an update on Twitter posting photos of him and Dralistico and stating “See you soon. #AEW #LFI”