Powerhouse Hobbs has legitimate injury, planned AEW Collision match postponed
A planned street fight between Powerhouse Hobbs and Big Bill for this week’s AEW Collision had to be postponed due to a legitimate injury.
On Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, a Hobbs backstage promo aired where he said he wasn’t cleared by the doctors but promised Big Bill that hell was just the beginning between them.
On Wednesday’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez reported that Hobbs got injured during he and Bill’s wild brawl as part of last Saturday’s Collision. The plan was to do another big brawl on Dynamite which would then have led to a street fight on this week’s Collision which was taped after Dynamite in Huntsville, Alabama.
The actual injury is unknown and his potential return date is unknown.
Alvarez said the Hobbs promo was filmed in Huntsville and that the doctor would not clear him when he arrived at the arena. As a result, the Mid-South street fight between FTR and Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta was put together for Collision instead.
AEW’s next live show is this Wednesday’s Dynamite from Atlanta, Georgia.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.