Buddy Matthews gives update on ankle injury, AEW return timeline

Buddy Matthews is hoping that it won’t be too long until he’s back in the ring. An ankle injury has kept Matthews out of action for more than two months now. The injury happened while Matthews was making his entrance at AEW Grand Slam Australia on February 15. Despite getting hurt, he still continued with his match against Kazuchika Okada. Matthews told Chris Van Vliet on a new episode of Insight that he suffered ligament and cartilage damage but is lucky that the injury wasn’t worse. “It’s ok. Rolled it pretty bad. Had an X-ray, MRI. There was no break, but there was like partial ligament tear and cartilage damage,” Matthews said. “Yeah, [I’m] walking. I haven’t ran. I haven’t jumped. I’ve just started implementing cardio, but then it kind of stiffens up. And, you know, we’re working through it, but the docs were telling me I’ve never seen an ankle roll that much under someone without completely destroying, like smashing, disintegrating the bones. So I didn’t break a bone, which was incredible, but then I h