32-year-old star reportedly present backstage in AEW during Dynamite this week

One of AEW's top names was backstage at a recent edition of the company's weekly television program, Dynamite. The star in question, Will Ospreay, is currently on the mend from surgery.

The Aerial Assassin has been missing from action since he and his teammates Darby Allin, The Golden Lovers and Hiroshi Tanahashi, defeated The Death Riders in a Lights Out Steel Cage Match this past August at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. Ospreay, who had revealed prior to the pay-per-view that he needed surgery for two herniated discs in his neck, was written off of programming after the bout in the form of a post-match ambush from Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli.

The former International Champion went under the knife in September, and is currently on the road to recovery, with many expecting him to be back by next year's All In: London. The Jacksonville-based promotion, incidentally, returned to the UK recently, and hosted a special three-hour Dynamite-Collision broadcast last Wednesday in Manchester, England. Now, a report from Fightful Select has claimed that Will Ospreay was backstage for this past week's episode of AEW Dynamite.

Will Ospreay announces his surgery was successful [Source: willospreay on IG]

It remains to be seen when the 32-year-old high-flyer will be back on All Elite TV.

Will Ospreay was namedropped on AEW Holiday Bash

This week's special three-hour Dynamite-Collision block, dubbed Holiday Bash, featured a contract signing for a three-way bout between Swerve Strickland, Adam Page and Samoa Joe over the AEW Men's World Championship scheduled for Worlds End 2025. Fans in the arena heard from the defending title holder and both his contenders during the segment. When it was his turn to speak, The Cowboy fired off at The Samoan Submission Machine over his recent actions, which he claimed tarnished the veteran's legacy.

Page then revealed that before Joe had stolen the World Title away from him at Full Gear 2025, he had planned to defend the strap against many of the people who had helped him win it from Jon Moxley at All In: Texas. This included Darby Allin and Will Ospreay, who had shown up for the Virginia-native during his Texas Death Match against The One True King.

The contract signing at Holiday Bash was soon afterwards crashed by MJF, who executed his own All In: Texas Casino Gauntlet contract to insert himself into the Worlds End 2025 World Championship bout, making it a four-way.

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Edited by Anurag Mukherjee