Samoa Joe was written off television during Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite when he battled Chris Jericho in a street fight.
Jericho was helped in the match by Big Bill and Bryan Keith, as HOOK was not cleared to travel after taking a fireball to the face from Jericho last week. Also, Katsuyori Shibata was not present on the show.
Jericho loaded Joe onto a forklift and then drove him through a wall in the bout. This led to the bout being stopped as Joe couldn’t continue, and Joe was loaded onto a stretcher and put in an ambulance after the match.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted Joe was written off because he’s going to film the second season of Peacock’s “Twisted Metal,” where he plays Sweet Tooth.” He’ll be gone through October.
Bryan Alvarez: “And Samoa Joe did a big-time injury angle with Chris Jericho on the show tonight. He was run through a wall on a forklift. And they’d stretched him out and sent [[him] out in the ambulance solo like he was badly injured. What’s he doing?”
Meltzer: “He was in the first season of that, what’s the TV show? “Twisted Metal,” I think. And the second season starts filming in a couple of weeks. He’s gonna be filming until, I think, October, maybe. But that’s the deal. It was an injury angle to cover that he’s going to be out of action. So, yep, that’s the situation. So that’s why that whole thing. That’s why he lost the street fight. That’s why he’s doing the injury angle. And then when he comes back, he’s got a built-in grudge with Jericho to come back for.”
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