One half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions – Swerve Strickland announced Twitter that Kenny Omega’s appearance scheduled appearance on his Swerve City Podcast has been postponed.
Swerve announced on Twitter Saturday that Omega’s appearance on his podcast was delayed due to “unfortunate circumstances”. Omega was scheduled to appear on the podcast on August 31. It was further noted by Swerve that Omega appearance will be rescheduled in the future, the next guest will be announced on Monday at 12pm.
Omega, along with The Young Bucks, were involved in a backstage fight with CM Punk and Ace Steel following negative comments Punk made against them on the All Out PPV post-show media scrum. All have since been suspended from the company.
The Bucks and Omega were stripped of the AEW World Trios Championships. A match took place on last Wednesday’s Dynamite between PAC and the Lucha Bros and Orange Cassidy and Best Friends to determine new champions. The match was won by PAC and the Lucha Bros. CM Punk was stripped of the AEW World Championship. A tournament is underway to crown a new champion. The tournament will conclude at the Dynamite Grand Slam episode of Dynamite at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queen, NY on Wednesday, September 23. CM Punk recently underwent surgery to repair left torn triceps. It has been said that the injury actually happened during his match with Jon Moxley at All Out, while others are saying it happened during the fight backstage after the media scrum. Punk is expected to out for up to eight months.
The backstage altercation is currently under investigation. Neither Tony Khan nor AEW have publicly commented on the situation.