Tony Khan Says Red Velvet’s Injury Seems ‘Manageable,’ Confirms Exactly When She Was Injured

Update on Red Velvet from Tony Khan.

Due to Red Velvet being injured, Ring of Honor crowned an Interim ROH Women’s World Television Champion at Supercard of Honor. A four-way match took place to crown the interim champion, and it was Mina Shirakawa emerging victorious.

Velvet became a talking point during Tony Khan’s solo portion of the AEW All In Texas post-show media scrum. He praised Velvet for her work as Women’s World TV Champion and the work she’s done in CMLL. He stated that her injury seems manageable.

“But speaking of the great TV Titles, the Women’s World TV Championship in Ring of Honor, Red Velvet, she’s done a great job representing the company as a World TV Champion. She’s gone to Arena México and made a great impression, and really, for a relatively new championship in the world of wrestling, the Women’s World TV Title has had a great profile. She’s really raised the profile being a great ambassador. That’s something I really value. Somebody who’s gone down to an Arena México, which has been a great partner to AEW, and to go down there and to put in a great shift, that’s gonna score huge points with me and even really raise the prestige of the title, I thought Red Velvet has… I was disappointed that Red Velvet couldn’t wrestle but also, it was the right thing to do because it seems like it hopefully could be a manageable injury. It’s not gonna be years and years that she’s gonna be out or anything. We’re eventually, hopefully gonna have a match and if Mina Shirakawa can keep retaining… 

Khan then began speaking about the women’s Casino Gauntlet at All In, during which ROH Women’s World Champion Athena won by pinning Shirakawa. Khan went on to confirm that Velvet was injured at the ROH/CMLL Global Wars Mexico show.

“Interestingly enough, with a brand-new Interim Ring of Honor World Women’s Television Champion getting pinned by the Ring of Honor World Women’s Champion who’s held the belt for years and was actually teaming with Red Velvet in the match she got hurt in against Persephone who’s another great wrestler who was in that match and Thunder Rosa…”

After Shirakawa won the interim title, she and Velvet went face to face in the ring at Supercard of Honor. Velvet is the second holder of the Women’s World TV Title and has been champion since July 2024.

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