Update: Good News Regarding AEW's Rey Fenix Following Scary Injury on AEW Dynamite

By Connor Casey

AEW Dynamite's TBS premiere closed out this week with Jurassic Express beating The Lucha Brothers for the AEW World Tag Team Championships. But as the show ended, more fans were concerned with what happened outside the ring, as Rey Fenix seemed to suffer a gruesome-looking arm injury after being chokeslammed off the apron by Luchasaurus through a table propped up on the floor below. Fenix immediately signed to the referees that something was wrong with his left arm as it contorted when he landed and the match ended shortly afterwards.

Shortly after the incident, both Cassidy Haynes of Bodyslam and Bryan Alvarez of the Wrestling Observer reported Fenix was rushed to the hospital with a broken arm. PWInsider's Mike Johnson then followed up saying it was initially believed to just be a dislocated elbow, though the diagnosis has not been confirmed. 

Update: An update later Thursday morning via Sean Ross Sapp reported there was no fracture in Fenix's arm, confirming that it was merely a dislocation. 

Debuting in 2005, the high-flyer found early success in Lucha Libre AAA and Japan before being introduced to American audiences via the Lucha Underground series. From there he and his brother, Penta El Zero Miedo, become two of the most decorated luchadores in the world with tag title reigns in AAA, Pro Wrestling Gurrilla, Impact Wrestling, MLW and The Crash. The pair finally won tag team gold in AEW at last year's All Out pay-per-view, defeating The Young Bucks in a Steel Cage match that wound up winning ComicBook's Golden Issue for Match of the Year. 

AEW president Tony Khan spoke with ComicBook last week and hyped up what 2022 would bring to AEW. On top of the TBS debut, this week will also feature the first TNT quarterly special with Battle of the Belts on Saturday night in Charlotte. 

"Hopefully we'll be able to do the whole year touring, and spend 52 weeks touring across different, great markets," Khan said. "This year, the first half of the year, we were very fortunate that we were able to do the shows in Daily's Place, but it wasn't until the second half of the year, where we got back on the road and saw so many more great fans across the country. So, we'll always keep Daily's Place in the mix. We're there this week, and we'll be back again soon. But we'll be a lot of great places around the country in between. And I think it'll be great to bring AEW back to the west coast this year with Double or Nothing. And some of the TV around that. And I look forward to hitting more markets.

"And also, this will be the first year we've had this full roster in place. A lot of people came to AEW at the end of 2021," he added. "Huge stars, like CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Ruby Soho, Adam Cole and now Kyle O'Reilly. All of them and more will have a chance to wrestle a full year in AEW, and I think that's going to be very special."

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