Nick Comoroto returns on AEW Dynamite after near nine-month absence

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Nick Comoroto returned to the ring on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite after nearly nine months away due to recovering from a major hip procedure.

The 34-year-old was part of a trios bout that saw him team with former Ring of Honor TV and Tag Team Champion Rhett Titus and Myles Hawkins in a three-minute squash defeat to reigning AEW Trios Champions The Opps.

His last match was for ROH in August 2024 where he’s spent the majority of his career the past few years. Even before the surgery, he was rarely on AEW TV, competing just once in all of 2024 before the injury — a one-minute June squash loss to Daniel Garcia. Before that, his last AEW bout was July 2023.

Comoroto underwent hip resurfacing surgery after “wrestling on one leg for nearly two years” as he said at the time. The process as described is surgery that replaces the damaged hip joint surface with a metal covering that preserves the natural bone and cartilage to a greater extent than a full replacement.

Comoroto debuted for AEW in 2020 after previously being part of WWE developmental in NXT. He was trained at the Monster Factory and a member of QT Marshall’s The Factory stable in AEW prior to the group disbanding.