In a recent interview with Andrew Thompson of POSTWrestling, John Skyler revealed that All Elite Wrestling continued to pay him while he was out injured after tearing his MCL, ACL and PCL in June 2020 during a match against The Dark Order.
“Well, first of all, I feel great right now in terms of the actual – my knee in any kind of pain, I lmost feel like it’s non-existent, I almost don’t even think about it anymore, which is probably good, because the first couple of matches I had back, it’s all I thought about and I was so conscious to not re-injure anything, but last June, probably 2020 will go down as I guess the worst year in the history of the world for everybody, but I was in a match with The Dark Order and ended up tearing my MCL, my ACL and my PCL and I had to have surgery last June, two days before my Mom’s birthday actually, so that was a fun way to celebrate and I was out.
I was projected to be out anywhere from eight months to a year and I got back in seven. It was definitely a mental struggle, especially with everything going on in the world, you know, the world kind of came to a pause and everything kind of shut down, weren’t a lot of independents going on, so AEW was gracious enough to continue to bring me back and pay me while I was injured. They paid me very well, every week, there was a television taping and I got to work with their team of doctors, Doc. Sampson, Bryce, Brad, all those great guys that they have there on their medical team and the helped me rehab as well in Jacksonville, so they were great and I had my first back in January when I was medically cleared against The Gunn Club and it’s kind of been off to the races since.”
The interview is available in full at this link.