Hook to Return to AEW TV After Concussion, Multiyear Deal Confirmed

Hook is set to return to AEW television after several months on the sidelines due to a concussion, following a teed-up comeback that aired on Dynamite this week. The former FTW Champion last competed in April, was briefly involved in a run-in at Double or Nothing, and now has a multi-year deal with AEW confirmed, with a comeback date anticipated in the near term.

The sequence of events surrounding Hook's absence centers on a concussion suffered during an April 9 tag team match in Baltimore, where he teamed with Samoa Joe against Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta. Hook has said he began recovering from the concussion and expected to be back soon. In the weeks that followed, he appeared in an angle at the May pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, returning to confront Castagnoli and the Death Riders. The incident in Baltimore and the subsequent setback kept Hook off television for an extended period, as AEW reorganized its programming around the ongoing storylines involving Joe and Katsuyori Shibata, with Hook aligned as part of The Opps in the months prior to his absence.

A promotional video aired during Dynamite signaling Hook’s return, using a stylized, Batman-inspired effect in...