Soon to make her return, absent AEW star Skye Blue has opened up on her critical ankle injury.
Last year in July, during her match against Hikaru Shida on Collision, Skye Blue suffered a serious ankle injury. Absent from television since then, Blue later underwent surgery for a broken ankle and also appeared on All Out 2024 with crutches.
Now moving closer to her return on the 14th May episode of Dynamite Beach Break, she recently appeared for an interview with Case Lowe on Q101, and reflected on suffering the injury.
“I was catching a dive. I’ve caught dives before so I didn’t think anything of it. As she jumped, I could tell something was off with it. It was either her head was hitting the floor or I was going to dive and catch her. I dove and caught her.
The second I felt it, I rolled over to get up because I had to crawl to where I was going, I felt my foot dangling from my leg. I could feel it detached. It was the grossest feeling that I’ve ever felt. Before I even told the ref, ‘Hey, my ankle is messed up,’ there was already a doctor in front of me. She’s like, ‘You’re done. You’re not getting up.’ ‘
No, let me finish the match.’ I tried to get up and I screamed. She goes, ‘Sit down. You’re done.’ ‘Okay.’ I was terrified because I just wanted to finish the match. I never felt anything like this. It was the first major injury. I snapped my fibula. There are two long screws (on one side) and (on the other side) is a plate and six screws. That was probably the scariest thing ever.”
She further continued how her partner, Kyle Fletcher, motivated her for her return,
That definitely crossed through my head a bunch of times, especially at night when I couldn’t sleep. It’d be like four in the morning and there were times I would have to lay with my leg straight because if I moved it, it was in pain. [Kyle] was the best because he’d be like, ‘Tell those voices to shut up. You’re going to wrestle. You’re not going to just sit on this couch and mop.’ He was by far the biggest supporter I could ever ask for.”
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She is now scheduled to face Toni Storm, AZM, and Mina Shirakawa in an AEW Women’s Title Eliminator match in her return bout.
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