Kota Ibushi Suffers Broken Femur During AEW Collision Taping

• Kota Ibushi suffered a broken femur after falling off the top rope at AEW Collision; he needs surgery.
• Match ended by countout as medical staff attended; Ibushi was stretchered to an ambulance.
• Fans criticized AEW for promoting the match on social media after the injury reports.

An unfortunate accident happened during the Wednesday taping of AEW Collision Homecoming. It was first reported by PWInsider that Kota Ibushi was injured during his match against Josh Alexander.

Kota Ibushi Suffers An Injury

The 43-year-old reportedly suffered a broken femur and will require surgery. F4Wonline’s JJ Williams was in attendance and described the unfortunate incident. Per the report, Ibushi fell off the top rope to the outside of the ring. His leg had given out. He never made it back into the ring, and Alexander won by countout. The house lights were lowered while medical personnel assisted Ibushi. Kenny Omega was out there as well. Ibushi was then carried out on a stretcher to an ambulance.

As of this writing, no official announcement has been made about Ibushi’s injury. Though during the Collision taping, AEW CEO Tony Khan later came out to speak to the Jacksonville, Florida crowd about the dangers of wrestling and thanked them for being “good fans.”

It was only this past summer that Ibushi returned to the ring after being gone for a while. He had been dealing with some serious injuries. Ibushi had dealt with a right tibiofibular ligament tear and a right ankle lateral ligament complex injury. Ibushi’s last match before Wednesday’s injury was the Lights Out Steel Cagematch at the AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door event on August 24, 2025, at the O2 Arena in London, England.

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