AEW: Mark Davis Reportedly Dealing with Injury, Jay White Reportedly Believed to Have Suffered Hand Injury, More News

Mark Davis Reportedly Dealing with Injury

AEW is currently dealing with an injury bug that has resulted in both Orange Cassidy and Jay White currently being out of action for the company.

Besides Cassidy and White, Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Mark Davis is also currently dealing with an injury.

It was reported that Davis had suffered an injury during his match against Powerhouse Hobbs on the March 26th episode of AEW Dynamite in St. Paul, Minnesota.

It was also reported that this was the reason why Davis’ match with Hobbs was cut short and was not AEW officials original plan for the match.

It was also reported that details regarding the nature nor severity of Davis’ injury are currently not known nor a potential timetable for his return. Those spoken to within the company stated that they felt bad for Davis and brought up how he has worked hard to return from his previous injury.

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Jay White Injury Status Update – White Believed to Have Suffered Hand Injury

As noted before, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Peoria, Illinois featured AEW announcing that Jay White was pulled from this year’s Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament due to a storyline injury. This undisclosed injury was later revealed to be legitimate and White would need to undergo surgery to repair it.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that the current belief is that White had suffered a hand injury.

No other details were given regarding the cause nor severity of the injury.

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AEW News & Notes

Deonna Purrazzo recently announced that she will be participating in a live chat on Triller during this Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event.

AEW recently announced that they will be holding a Meet and Feast fan event on April 8th at Jimmy’s Famous Seafood in Baltimore, Maryland. It was announced that this upcoming event will benefit Kulturecity and Austism Awareness Month. It was also announced that Adam Cole, Mark Briscoe, and Harley Cameron will be making an appearance at this upcoming event.

As noted before, The Young Bucks’ Matthew & Nicholas Jackson have been on a break from AEW since this past October. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that the Young Bucks are still EVPs in AEW but they have not been seen backstage at shows of late. Those spoken to reportedly stated that for the times the Young Bucks have shown up backstage for visits, they leave before the show starts. Sapp reported that the Young Bucks had planned to take a long absence from the ring for their current break.

As noted before, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Peoria, Illinois featured Jon Moxley attacking Willow Nightingale and laid her out with a Paradigm Shift following the Mixed Tag Team match between Nightingale & Swerve Strickland and the Death Riders’ Moxley & Marina Shafir. Nightingale provided an update on Thursday on Twitter stating that “I’m alive.“

This past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Peoria also featured current GCW World Tag Team Champions Violence is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) making an appearance as extras on the show. Garrini and Ku were among the security guards seen during the Swere Strickland and Hangman Adam Page backstage segment on the show.

This past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Peoria also featured the announcement of The Hurt Syndicate’s Shelton Benjamin was not able to attend the show due to weather-related travel issues. Benjamin recently issued a statement on Instagram apologizing to all of the fans for not being able to be at the show. Benjamin stated “To the @aew fans of Peoria [Illinois] i offer my sincere apologies. As a professional I pride myself on always showing up and showing out where advertised by Aew. Unfortunately despite Aew staff and my best efforts I was unable to make it to Peoria in time for tonight’s @aew Dynamite due to Major weather related flight delays. Please know I am just as disappointed as some of you may be and will take steps to avoid a repeat of this unfortunate situation in the future. Again my apologies and together we will hurt people next time.“

In a recent interview with the Good Karma Wrestling podcast, Kyle Fletcher gave his thoughts about getting to work with Konosuke Takeshita in AEW. Fletcher stated “My husband Takeshita. What can I say about him? He’s beautiful, for one. Real nice cock on him, too. I’m kidding. Kidding, kidding. Apart from myself, he’s the person I enjoy watching in the ring the most. He has that style that is obviously influenced by Japanese wrestling and I love Japanese wrestling. It’s that sports aspect and sports presentation. When he throws a forearm, I think he’s killed someone. That is a lot of what is missing in today’s wrestling and something that I try to capture myself. When I watch Takeshita, I’m going, ‘He’s killing some people. Wow.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with , “Speedball” Mike Bailey gave his thoughts about how he already feels at home in AEW and his upcoming match against Ricochet and Kenny Omega for the AEW International Championship at Dynasty 2025. Bailey stated “As you mentioned, this is a huge step for my career, by far the biggest platform I’ve ever been on. And to kick it off this early, I’ve only had two matches so far. And the next one I have scheduled at Dynasty is an International Championship match with Ricochet and Kenny Omega, which is honestly as big as it gets. It feels like it is all happening extremely fast. But in a way, I feel very comfortable and at home in AEW. I have already wrestled, been in the ring, been in locker rooms with almost the entire roster. And I have wrestled Kenny Omega before in PWG in 2015. That was a match that absolutely changed my career, its direction. Just working with someone like Kenny and seeing how his brain operates, and how he works, and how he goes about matches. Eventually I went on to DDT and got a much closer look on how he became the wrestler that he is. So, that’s a rematch that I’ve been chasing for ten years. Then you throw in Ricochet into the mix, who is one of the most talented wrestlers in the world. Certainly one of the most influential high flyers of the last decade. Now, as a person, as a human being, his behavior, I cannot speak on. But I am still extremely excited for Dynasty and that three-way for the International Championship.“