AEW Star Kept Skye Blue Believing She’d Wrestle Again

Skye Blue is on the verge of a long-awaited comeback to AEW, but it’s another star in the company she credits for keeping her spirits up after her tough injury.

On the July 20, 2024 episode of Collision, Skye Blue took on Hikaru Shida, but the match came to a quick and unfortunate end.

During the bout, Shida hit a crossbody from the ring apron to the floor, but as she landed on Blue, the latter’s ankle appeared to buckle underneath her. After the star was checked by the referee, the match was waved off, and she was helped backstage by officials. It was later confirmed that Skye Blue had broken her ankle.

But now, ten months later, a return to the ring is in sight for Skye Blue in her hometown of Chicago.

Speaking in an interview with Q101, Skye Blue explained the gory details of what happened when she suffered her sickening injury:

I’ve caught dives before so I didn’t think anything of it. As she jumped, I could tell something was off with it. It was either her head was hitting the floor or I was gonna dive and catch her. I dove and caught her. And the second I felt it, I had rolled over to get up because I had to crawl to where I was going, I felt my foot dangling from my leg…I could feel it detached. It was the grossest feeling that I’ve ever felt.

AEW’s Kyle Fletcher Kept Skye Blue Positive During Injury Layoff

Blue continued by discussing her long road back to the ring, and she credited her boyfriend Kyle Fletcher for helping her out of her toughest times:

It was so much harder than I anticipated. I didn’t realize how much you use your leg for. Even just learning how to walk again was difficult. I was butt-scooting up stairs. And when [Fletcher] had to go to work, Robbie Eagles stayed with us for a little while.

It’d be like four in the morning and there was times where I would have to lay with my leg straight because if I moved it, it was just in pain. But this one [Fletcher] was the best because he’d be like no, tell those voices to shut up. You’re going to wrestle, you’re not going to just sit on this couch and mope. And yeah, he was by far the biggest supporter I could ever ask for.