Rich Swann Injured, What Is His Slammiversary Status?

Dang it. In today’s wrestling world, wrestlers often move from one company to another from night to night, partially due to how many companies can offer a lucrative one night deal. Some of these promotions are bigger than others and that means that one televised show can impact another. An injury can cause that as well, which seems to be the case again here.

According to PWInsider.com, Rich Swann was injured at Thursday’s Major League Wrestling Battle Riot event. Swann received what seems to be a bad concussion during a tag team match when he teamed with ACH against Teddy Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr. This presents a problem as Swann is scheduled to participate in a four way match at this Sunday’s Impact Wrestling Slammiversary pay per view. At the moment, Impact Wrestling is looking for a replacement in case Swann is not cleared to wrestle.

This is what a healthy Swann is capable of doing.

Rich Swann vs Fenix | IMPACT! Highlights July 5, 2018

Opinion: Hopefully this isn’t too bad and Swann is able to wrestle sooner rather than later. I would be rather surprised if he’s able to be cleared by this Sunday but stranger things have happened. Concussions are taken much more seriously these days (as they should be) and you can’t risk someone getting hurt far worse just because you want to get them into a show sooner.

Do you think Swann will wrestle on Sunday? If not, who do you want to replace him? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 27 wrestling books. His latest book is the NXT: The Full Sail Years Volume III: From Dallas To New Orleans.

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