Luchasaurus has revealed the unlikely chain of events that led to his current shoulder injury, tracing it back to celebrating the New York Knicks’ NBA Cup victory on a plane before agreeing to compete in a battle royal out of obligation to Tony Khan.
Speaking on Talk Is Jericho with Chris Jericho, Luchasaurus described how he ended up in the December 17 Dynamite Diamond Ring Battle Royal despite not being in the right physical condition.
“I was supposed to go maybe do a Santa Claus thing at AEW Dynamite Holiday Bash, but you have to be ready to wrestle. When I got too excited because the Knicks won the NBA Cup, I was drinking on the plane and up all night. I didn’t sleep. They finally won something. I waited 40 years for this. We get there and Tony is like, do you want to be in this battle royal? I’m not going to say no to the boss, who just flew me out here. Yeah, let’s do it. It was a fun spot with Shelton Benjamin. He threw Ricochet to me and I caught him in a chokeslam. Somehow, my shoulder went pop, pop,” Luchasaurus said.
He then revealed that the injury actually aggravated an existing issue dating back to 2022.
“I partially tore the rotator cuff and worked through it. We did a PRP injection and band-aided it for a while. Four years later, they both went. It happened. I got the first one done in February. The surgeon wanted to wait six months, but we’re trying to do a faster timeline because we want to get back. I’m going to do the next one three months after, which is a little scary, but I want to get back as soon as I can. I wanted to do them both at the same time, but as soon as I got one done, I realized it would have been insane. It would have been a disaster,” Luchasaurus said.
The New York Knicks won the NBA Cup on December 16, the night before the battle royal, confirming the timeline Luchasaurus described. He has remained visible on AEW television in a limited capacity since the injury, primarily driving the bus for Jack Perry. He was written off television storyline-wise at AEW Worlds End and the New Year’s Smash edition of Dynamite as The Demand took him out.
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