Luchasaurus has had four surgeries this year and expects to be cleared around the end of October at the earliest.
He gave the update on KFS Spotlight, a New York Knicks podcast, explaining why he will not be at Wembley on Sunday.
“I’ll be watching AEW All In from home because I just had my fourth surgery of the year. I’ll be home nursing two shoulders, a left meniscus, and a right elbow. But I am on the path to return.”
The shoulders are what set the timeline, and there is no way around it.
“I had to get my rotator cuffs fixed, and they’re tendons. With a tendon, there is a specific timetable that you can’t beat no matter what, and that’s six months.”
“The second shoulder, this was done in February, this was done in April. So around the end of October, hopefully as long as it’s all healed right, I’ll be cleared to start exploring what a comeback looks like.”
He has been out since December. The injury happened in the Dynamite Diamond Ring battle royal on the December 17 Dynamite, a Holiday Bash episode taped in the United Kingdom, in a spot in which Shelton Benjamin threw Ricochet at him for a chokeslam.
“He threw Ricochet at me, and I caught him in a chokeslam. Somehow my shoulders went pop-pop.”
He had not been booked to wrestle that night and was asked on the day.
“I was supposed to go maybe do a Santa Claus thing, but you have to be ready to wrestle,” he said in May. “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.”
He has also been candid about the state he was in. The Knicks had won the NBA Cup the night before.
“When I got too excited because the Knicks won the 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.”
Both shoulders went at once, and neither was in good condition beforehand. Luchasaurus partially tore a rotator cuff in a 2022 match with Jack Perry and worked through it.
“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.”
The recovery has taken longer than he wanted. His surgeon advised waiting six months between the two shoulder operations. He went ahead after three, specifically to get back sooner, having first considered doing both at once.
“The surgeon wanted to wait six months, but we’re trying to do a faster timeline because we want to get back,” he said in May. “So I’m going to do the next one only three months after, which is a little scary, but I’m going to try. I really 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.”
At that point, he was hoping to wrestle again before the end of the year. The knee and elbow operations since have pushed the calculation back.
AEW wrote him off television after the injury, with The Demand attacking him at Worlds End and on the New Year’s Smash edition of Dynamite. He has still appeared periodically since, most visibly as Jack Perry’s bus driver.
This is not the first health problem he has had. Luchasaurus collapsed at home in September 2024 and was taken to hospital with double pneumonia, which he has described as life-threatening. Early expectations were that he would be out a month. He did not return until All Out in September 2025.
He is a former AEW World Tag Team Champion and a former TNT Champion, and worked under the name Killswitch during his run with Christian Cage before reverting to Luchasaurus.
All In takes place at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 30.
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