![]() It sounds like WWE didn't fight AEW hard to sign Aussie Open. This assistance in getting Davis surgery, in addition to AEW's pre-existing relationship with New Japan, ultimately convinced the duo to become #AllElite, but did they ever actually consider taking WWE up on their offer? Fortunately, Jericho asked that question too, and the answer was fascinating for more reasons than one. ![]() I was in Orlando, I passed Tony in the hallway, ‘Come and talk to me.' He sorted it. We got there and I was like, ‘I don't think I can wrestle, I need to get my knee looked at.' The trainers looked at it, ‘It's you're meniscus.' ‘That's what I thought it was.' It's a thing I expected to happen, it was a frustrating point in time because we were tag champions. It was a very frustrating 48 hour period, and upon coming to America, there was a Ring of Honor taping we were supposed to be involved in. “Tomorrow included a 17 hour travel day to America, on a flight I couldn't upgrade. ‘It's okay tomorrow,'” Mark Davis told Chris Jericho via Fightful. Maybe tomorrow it's okay.' He gave me a compression bandage and some heat patches. I can't straighten, I can't bend it, it's locking, I'm in pain, I'm pretty sure it's my meniscus.' He looked at it, worked it over, ‘it's your IT band. I talk to the trainer at New Japan, ‘My knee isn't okay. I had issues with it post-ACL tear, post return to wrestling, I had it checked, I know my meniscus is torn and is causing me issues. ![]() ‘My knee is done.' We did this tag match, six-man tag, eight to ten minutes, and it doesn't feel good. I duck a clothesline, kick them in the crotch, I roll out, and my knee just felt off. In May, Dontaku tour, we were the IWGP Tag Team Champions, we were the New Japan Strong Tag Team Champions, and it's the last day of the tour we're wrestling TMDK, and the night before, House of Torture stole our titles, and we run to the ring to get them back. “We hit a point and hit a threshold where, we put the time in, we waited and committed to New Japan, we had offers from WWE to do NXT and NXT UK, that we refused, because we wanted to commit to doing New Japan, and it was a difficult struggle.
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