Steven Borden is back in AEW, and apparently his All Out injury was even scarier than it looked. Borden has now confirmed that he suffered a concussion and was actually knocked out for a little while during the frightening incident that stopped his match.
Speaking with First Coast News ahead of the November 4 episode of AEW Dynamite, Borden finally revealed exactly what happened to him at All Out.
“It feels great to be back. So I got concussed, and I was knocked out for a little bit.”
Thankfully, Borden has made it through the recovery process, but sitting on the sidelines apparently drove him a little crazy. The weird part was that he didn’t actually feel injured, even though doctors obviously weren’t about to let someone with a concussion jump straight back into the ring.
“It’s weird though. With injuries, you’re sidelined. Normally, you can feel it. You tore something in your knee or whatever, and so you know as much as you wanna get back in the action, you can’t. But for me, I felt fine. So it’s just this weird thing of like, I wanted to be back out there but I couldn’t, and now that I’m back, it feels pretty dang good.”
Borden suffered the injury at All Out after a nasty head collision with Kevin Knight brought his match to an abrupt end. There were immediately plenty of concerns about his condition, especially considering just how suddenly everything stopped.
Tony Schiavone later revealed that Borden wasn’t even thinking primarily about himself afterwards. Despite experiencing his first concussion after years of playing football at the University of Kentucky, he was worried that the whole thing had somehow ruined AEW’s pay-per-view.
“He did tell me, he said, ‘Of all the years that I played football for the University of Kentucky, I never had a concussion. I never experienced anything like that.’ And he was more upset that he thought that he ruined the pay-per-view by what happened.”
AEW certainly isn’t giving him some gentle little warm-up match for his return. Borden is set to compete in the men’s Blood & Guts match on the November 4 episode of Dynamite, meaning a guy who was desperately waiting to get off the sidelines is coming back in one of the most violent environments AEW has to offer.
Borden spent his recovery feeling like he could wrestle while being told he couldn’t, so it’s not hard to understand why being back feels “pretty dang good.” Getting thrown straight into Blood & Guts might be a hell of a way to return, but after weeks of waiting around, Borden finally gets to stop watching and start fighting again.
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