Buddy Matthews injured ankle at Grand Slam

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Well damn! That’s not good.
 

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Terrible timing. Just when he was getting consistent television time
 
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Wait…

Did he get hurt during his entrance??
 

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In a since deleted tweet from last night
 

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So this is why the bottom feeders on worse sites have been whining about AEW being bush league. Because of the ring size. Please
 
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Yeah I had seen headlines about the whole ring thing but tbh I really didn’t think too much of it watching Grand Slam
 

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Yeah it was an 18x18 which is smaller but is the standard for non-WWE/AEW/NJPW. I assume he only deleted the tweet bc he was wrong about the size (and maybe bc if the ring was from an Australian indie, it's someone he knows lol) bc otherwise the 2nd point of a kayfabe excuse for losing is hilarious
 
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Yeah I had seen headlines about the whole ring thing but tbh I really didn’t think too much of it watching Grand Slam

Yeah I doubt any indies have the big ring and the alternative was ship it by sea which takes awhile. WWE usually does, but if you remember a year or so back the elimination chamber itself was delayed bc of fuckin' pirates lol I probs wouldn't ship a ring either
 
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My bet is he was being cheeky when he saw all the discourse but then soon realized wrestling fans are fucking dumb and ran with it so he deleted it
 

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^ This. Pretty sure Buddy was making fun of how dumb everyone was being (cause my god it was fucking stupid) but people took it as serious. SRS had to do a fucking report on it cause people took a tweet by Death of AEW as gospel. No wonder Trump got elected in America
 

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If the ring actually did suck otherwise that's a different issue too, these things can get lost when tribalism takes over too lol like there's a million things that can all be true

1. The ring was smaller - yes, but this isn't an issue (to me obviously, assume the rest of this is my opinions only so I don't have to say this)

2. The ring was borrowed - again, not an issue and what they probably should have done in the situation.

3. The ring was dingy and caused Buddy to hurt himself - possible, could have been a freak thing tho. If others come out and say the ring sucked I think AEW should get criticized for not vetting it better and putting their talent on a bad surface. If nothing else comes out tho, there's nothing wrong with 1 and 2 here.
 

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There’s video evidence of him coming off the second rope and rolling his ankle. Which is where a lot of people think the injury occurred.

I don’t think it’s worth criticizing AEW cause like Buddy says in his tweet “Shit happens”
 

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There’s video evidence of him coming off the second rope and rolling his ankle. Which is where a lot of people think the injury occurred.

I don’t think it’s worth criticizing AEW cause like Buddy says in his tweet “Shit happens”

Nah I'm pretty sure that's 100% right but like that doesn't even mean it was the ring's fault. It could have been and I'd be concerned if it was fucked up and say they were lucky no one falling on their backs got hurt bc I'm just getting Davey Boy Smith trapdoor flash backs there

But that's why I need someone else to be like "yeah that ring fucking sucked, it hurt so bad when you bumped" or something bc otherwise, I mean shit I've rolled my ankle walking
 

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Nah I'm pretty sure that's 100% right but like that doesn't even mean it was the ring's fault. It could have been and I'd be concerned if it was fucked up and say they were lucky no one falling on their backs got hurt bc I'm just getting Davey Boy Smith trapdoor flash backs there

But that's why I need someone else to be like "yeah that ring fucking sucked, it hurt so bad when you bumped" or something bc otherwise, I mean shit I've rolled my ankle walking
I've literally rolled and sprained my ankle at a train station on the way to work