Within a matter of days, arguably the most popular wrestler in AEW and the most popular wrestler in WWE went down with what appeared to be significant injuries.
CM Punk, who had just beaten Adam Page for the AEW championship May 29, suffered an undisclosed injury on the June 1 show at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. He then announced he had been hurt, although not the exact injury, on television two nights later.
The next morning, the word started getting around wrestling that Cody Rhodes had suffered a severe injury, but would still be wrestling in the main event in his Hell in a Cell match with Seth Rollins on the WWE pay-per-view show of the same name at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill.