AEW Name In Important Role Set To Miss Upcoming Shows

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An AEW name will miss a number of upcoming shows due to commitments elsewhere that will run to at least the end of the year.

A familiar voice to WWE, Ring of Honor and NJPW fans around the world, Kevin Kelly was the lead announcer for AEW Collision on June 17, 2023.

He was joined by Nigel McGuinness and, for the main event, Jim Ross, despite the WWE Hall of Famer suffering a black eye and later commenting that he was taking time away to heal his voice.

Kevin Kelly joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2012 and has served as an English language commentator on NJPW World.

Dave Meltzer discussed Kevin Kelly on commentary for AEW during Wrestling Observer Radio, revealing:

“He’s going to Japan from mid-July to mid-August, so he won’t be around then. And then he’s doing at least one more Japan show but I think that’s like a one-shot, so I don’t know if that’s gonna mean missing a show.

“But AEW and New Japan, they have good relations, so Tony (Khan)’s not gonna do something where he can’t go anymore. As far as long-term, I don’t know what the situation is, but Kevin Kelly is committed, from what I understand, to New Japan at least through the end of the year.

“And he’s gonna be calling the tag team tournament from home which means that he probably can go to all the AEW shows. So I think there’s probably just the G1 stuff where he’d be missing and maybe one other show, maybe even not one other show.

“Depending on if that show is a weekend show, which it probably is, so probably one other show, and whatever the big fall show would be in September/October, they’re gonna do a big one, Autumn Attack or whatever the show is gonna be. He is committed to going there for that.”

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Kevin Kelly was a fixture of WWE from 1996 to his eventual release in March 2003, although there had been failed attempts to get rid of him prior to this.

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• Collision
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