Match Change Due To Top AEW Star’s Injuries For May 17 Dynamite

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A match has been changed due to a top AEW star’s injuries for tonight’s May 17 edition of AEW Dynamite.

Over the past few months, The Outcasts of Saraya, Toni Storm and Ruby Soho have been feuding with the homegrown stars of All Elite Wrestling, including AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter and Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D.

On the April 19 edition of AEW Dynamite, Hayter and Baker defeated Soho and Storm. During the course of the match, The Outcasts injured the AEW Women’s World Champion, which has kept her out of action over the past few weeks.

A six-woman tag team match with Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker and Hikaru Shida facing The Outcasts is scheduled for the May 17 episode of Dynamite.

On Wednesday afternoon, AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that due to injuries at the hands of The Outcasts, Hayter has been removed from the scheduled tag team match on tonight’s show.

Now, it will be Baker and Shida facing Storm and Soho in tag team action on the broadcast.

Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp provided an update, noting that Hayter’s injury is apparently legit. He tweeted:

The Jamie Hayter injury that has her off tonight’s AEW Dynamite is legit. We haven’t heard her status beyond tonight.

We will have further updates on Jamie Hayter’s injury when they become available.

Here’s the full announcement from AEW on the upcoming AEW Collision show:

TNT LAUNCHES A SECOND NIGHT OF WRESTLING WITH “AEW: COLLISION” FEATURING HEADLINERS THUNDER ROSA, MIRO, SAMOA JOE, POWERHOUSE HOBBS AND ANDRADE EL IDOLO ON SATURDAY, JUNE 17

NEW YORK (May 17, 2023) – TNT launches a second night of professional wrestling with a new tentpole series, “AEW: Collision” on Saturday, June 17, it was announced today by Kathleen Finch, Chairman and Chief Content Officer, US Networks Group, Warner Bros. Discovery, during the company’s 2023 Upfront presentation at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

This live, two-hour, in-ring show will air every Saturday night from 8-10 p.m. ET and feature more wrestlers, more stories and more action to super-serve fans.

“AEW: Collision” will feature headliners including Miro, Samoa Joe, Thunder Rosa, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Andrade El Idolo.

In only four years following the launch of “AEW: Dynamite,” AEW’s footprint has more than doubled across TNT and TBS. Along with “AEW: Dynamite,” Friday night’s “AEW: Rampage,” the recent follow-doc “AEW: All Access,” and now “AEW: Collision,” TNT and TBS deliver the best matches and most entertaining moments in professional wrestling today.

AEW has reached 23M total viewers so far this year across all of its shows on TBS and TNT.*

“We’re doubling-down on wrestling with ‘AEW: Collision,’ which gives fans two more hours every week,” said Jason Sarlanis, President, Turner Networks, ID and HLN, linear & streaming.

“AEW’s roster of talent has expanded so quickly that we felt it needed another night to bring our audience the epic rivalries, unforgettable matches and stars they love to watch

“Adding ‘Collision’ to our programming mix on TNT will allow us to satisfy the massive demand we’ve felt from our hardcore fanbase and be the ultimate complement to ‘AEW: Dynamite’ on TBS.”

“With the addition of ‘AEW: Collision’ on TNT, I’m extremely proud that a Turner network will be the home of Saturday night wrestling for the first time in more than two decades,” said Tony Khan, CEO, GM and Head of Creative of AEW.

“The debut of ‘Collision’ is significant across numerous sectors including television, wrestling, entertainment and sports, and reinforces AEW as the bold property we envisioned when we launched in 2019.

“‘Collision’ will deliver live every Saturday night more of what fans and viewers tell us they want – athleticism, big personalities, exciting storylines and hard-hitting wrestling action, all of which have become synonymous with AEW.”

TONIGHT
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite
LIVE on TBS
8pm ET/7pm CT@RealBrittBaker/@shidahikaru vs@realrubysoho/#ToniStorm

Due to injuries caused by The Outcasts, doctors won't clear
AEW Women's World Champion @jmehytr

The DMD will team with Shida vs. Ruby Soho/Toni Storm tonight pic.twitter.com/Qg32nk0Giv

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) May 17, 2023

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