AEW’s Lance Archer was scheduled to compete on tonight’s edition of Dynamite in a six-man tag team match alongside Brian Cage and Ricky Starks as they were set to take on Darby Allin, Will Hobbs and AEW World Champion Jon Moxley.
Archer took to Twitter recently and revealed that after indirectly coming in contact with a friend who was COVID positive, he has now tested positive for COVID-19.
When I returned from our last show, a family member was ill when I got home. I found out later a friend who had taken my family member to the Vet for our Dachshund was COVID positive. While at home, now I’ve also gotten sick tested positive. I feel ok, expect to see me in 2 wks
Archer is still scheduled to challenge Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship on the AEW Anniversary show on October 14th. Following Archer’s tweet, Moxley noted that he’s going to be putting the world title on the line on Dynamite.
Change of plans. I'm putting up the title tonight. Live TV babe. #AEWDynamite
Oh yeah, I’m mostly just shit disturbing (with a bit of actual curiosity mixed in). AEW still has a level of “benefit of the doubt“ that WWE neither has nor deserves at this point, but I am still interested in how the reaction (here and elsewhere) differs based on the company involved.
Not really an Eddie Kingston guy, but for a match they had to book on the fly that everyone absolutely knew who would win, I thought they extracted about as good of a return as possible on what will probably be the peak of the Kingston momentum in AEW. And frankly, I don’t know how long it’ll last, but putting a Moxley title match on a show is one of the few things in American wrestling you know is going to pop a number (and I expect it to widen the gap a bit for this week with NXT because of it), so it’ll never be a bad decision to find a way to make one happen, no matter the storyline path.
