COVID-19 Hits Multiple Wrestlers Who Appeared On Early September AEW Tapings

AEW talent have been hit with COVID-19.

Fightful, in collaboration with Spectrum Sports 360's Jon Alba, were able to confirm that multiple wrestlers and talent present at All Elite Wrestling's September 9 tapings tested positive for COVID-19 in the two weeks since. We were not told if those tests were separately conducted or if they were conducted and diagnosed at either set of tapings. There were others we've heard are ill or showing symptoms, but we're unsure if they've tested positive.

Some of the talent involved had been brought in for the last set of AEW Dark tapings. Many of those talent are not contracted and can take independent wrestling dates, but are tested before entering Daily's Place for All Elite Wrestling work.

There were numerous wrestlers missing from the September 24 set of tapings, but we will not be identifying anyone that we've heard has COVID-19. Lance Archer identified himself as having COVID-19 shortly before the show started, noting that he believes he contracted it from a family member.

There was another WWE related outbreak of COVID-19 associated to their makeshift Performance Center two weeks ago, as well.

Alba added the following:





Fightful and Alba both reached out to All Elite Wrestling officials earlier this week, but did not hear back.

COVID-19 Hit Multiple Wrestlers Who Appeared On Early September AEW Tapings | Fightful Wrestling

 

CAWDY

 

Shouldn't have said sloppy shop if its gonna happen to your own company too

shyt like this is gonna happen. Can't control what talent do out of tapings

 

Wait I thought Wwe was the sloppy shop

 

Yea he wasn’t around..... out in Hollywood and shyt got laxed.


But now he BYKE to lock shyt down and tighten up the reigns a bit

 

Awwww how come dave metlzer didn't report this weeks ago (*

 

I think he's doing investigative reporting and working on trying to figure out who is this now new mysterious figure thats coming to NXT

 

Cody got the heads up and left everyone sick

But but vince

 

Pretty much. Unless AEW created a bubble like the NBA did they have no control.

Especially when you factor in how many indie wrestlers they have brought in for tapings who are most likely wrestling at bingo halls and high school gyms the rest of the week.

 

Brian Cage deleted a tweet he posted yesterday saying he wasn’t feeling well and is sick, . Cage was scheduled to tag with Lance Archer on Dynamite before Archer revealed he’d tested positive for COVID-19.

 

Speaking of, who was the hacker on smack down?