During his What Happened When podcast, Tony Schiavone cleared up speculation surrounding his absence from AEW Dynamite on 1/8.
Co-host Conrad Thompson revealed that Schiavone’s wife was getting hip replacement surgery that day, to which the AEW commentator sarcastically responded:
Couldn’t have been it, no. No, as a matter of fact, she got out of the hospital on Wednesday, and so I just let her walk home from the hospital instead of picking her up, and I went to TV and got suspended. But she made it home about six hours later.
Speculation over a possible suspension followed a later-deleted post from Schiavone on social media, commenting on NJPW commentator Chris Charlton’s remarks toward AEW and its wrestlers during the Wrestle Dynasty event on 1/5.
Schiavone, who returned to the announce desk for the 1/11 episode of Collision, noted that his wife was recovering well after her surgery.
Source: Fightful