Report: Top AEW star banged up, taking time off

It looks like one of AEW’s top stars will be taking a few weeks off to heal up.

Fightful reports that Will Ospreay is banged up and will be taking some time away from the ring. The report says that exactly how long he will be gone from AEW programming is not known yet, but there’s a belief that he’ll miss more than a month.

The news comes after Ospreay & Swerve Strickland teamed up to defeat The Young Bucks at AEW All In: Texas last weekend. It was a high-stakes match where, because of their loss, The Young Bucks have been forced to give up their in-storyline positions as AEW EVPs. If Ospreay & Strickland had lost, neither would have been able to challenge for the AEW World Championship for the next year.

Hangman Page became the new AEW World Champion at All In by dethroning Jon Moxley in a Texas death match. During the main event, there was an angle where Ospreay tried to help even the odds for Page but was stretchered out after a steel chair attack by the Death Riders. The angle was likely done to explain Ospreay’s upcoming absence.

A break will give Ospreay some time off from his intense travel schedule. With him living in the United Kingdom and traveling to the United States nearly every week, Ospreay has taken more than 68 flights so far in 2025.

“Halfway through 2025. This is flight number 68 this year,” he wrote on July 1. “Time I have spent on an aeroplane totals to; 397 hours 22 minutes. Everyday I’m super grateful to be living this life and performing for the greatest wrestling fans in the world. Thank you @AEW”

Ospreay has been heavily featured in all promotional material for AEW & NJPW Forbidden Door 2025, so it figures that he will be hoping to return in time for that pay-per-view. The show is taking place in his home country of the U.K. on August 24.