Will Ospreay gives surgery update, ‘everyone is comfortable’ with him wrestling at Forbidden Door

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Former AEW International Champion Will Ospreay has done the media rounds ahead of this Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door where he will compete with his future after the match heavily in doubt.

Ospreay said on Wednesday’s Dynamite that he will need to have surgery after Forbidden Door, something he confirmed in an interview with Screen Off Script. He said the two herniated discs he is dealing with is “doing a number on my arm” but that it is being “navigated” by the medical team.

Despite the injury, he said he is fully confident and comfortable in the ring and that while the situation is nerve-wracking, “everyone is comfortable with me going into this match” on Sunday.

Ospreay said there is no set date for the surgery or a potential timeframe in which he could return post-surgery. He’s been dealing with the issue for ten months.

There have been questions about how Ospreay got medically cleared despite dealing with the injury. He addressed that in a separate interview with Sports Illustrated, saying that initially, he was told he would need rest and time off after All In. Then, his MRI results came back and he was told by doctors that the injury “is worse than what we thought it was gonna be, but that it’s manageable.”

He said the injury is “absolutely fine” and that his surgeon said the discs won’t get any worse but that they need to be corrected.

From SI:

“I have a huge medical team around me, and guys that work with AEW,” Ospreay said. “They would not allow me to go into the ring unless, if it was a huge percentage of a risk of me getting hurt. Like, honestly, do you think my wife would let me go in a ring if there’s a high chance of me dying?”

Ospreay teams with Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kenny Omega, Darby Allin and Kota Ibushi against Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Gabe Kidd and the Young Bucks in the unsanctioned cage match Sunday.