UPDATE 2: On Monday’s Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez noted that Brian Cage will likely miss tonight’s Impact TV taping due to the injury he suffered at last night’s Impact Rebellion.

Alvarez noted that as of last night, Impact officials believed they would have to rewrite television and that while Cage is at the taping, he will not be working the taping. The company is taping tonight in Toronto at the Rebel Entertainment Complex.

UPDATE: Brian Cage has sent out an update on his back injury, revealing that he doesn’t expect to miss any time from the ring. He appeared on Busted Open Radio this morning to reveal exactly what injuries he suffered.

He said: ““So right away, right when we hit, I’m rolling and I feel the pain shoot down my leg. Just a feeling I’ve never had before in my life. I’m instantly thinking ruptured disk or whatever. My back is fucked and I’m gonna have to have surgery or something. Sorry I dropped the f-bomb there but…Maybe it’ll go away and just trying to enter the ring after that moment and I’m bleeding and what not. Rolling into the ring, turning my hip over and trying to get up, I just felt like there was no strength there and the pain shot down my leg again. I was like, ‘Crap’, but it felt almost a little bit better so that gave me a tiny bit help. I’m like, ‘Okay, well, maybe it’ll subside here in a second. Maybe it’s just a flash thing’, and then, I think I was in a corner and I evaded Johnny and I was trying to move and I couldn’t. I just felt so slow and no pun intended, so robotic in my mannerisms and movement because of the pain. ‘Okay, this is serious’, and again, just like I said during the opening of the interview, I didn’t know to what degree. ‘Am I gonna need back surgery now? Like what’s wrong? What’s going on? I don’t know because I’ve never had this type of pain in my back and also, it felt nerve-related so-to-speak. Yeah it doesn’t look like I’m going out. The way I looked at it, he goes, ‘Look, I think you’re gonna be fine. I think you have severe inflammation and bone bruise. There could be a small fracture there’. He goes, ‘I would like to rule that out. However, if it’s a fracture, I don’t see it being any major fracture’ and then he goes, ‘Even then, it’s not much you can do for that.’”

EXCLUSIVE: New @IMPACTWRESTLING World Heavyweight Champion @MrGMSI_BCage gave @davidlagreca1 & @bullyray5150 an update on what landed him in the hospital after winning the championship at #IMPACTRebellion last night. pic.twitter.com/mtr0Z3Sr2O — SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) April 29, 2019

Original: It was reported yesterday that after he defeated Johnny Impact for the Impact World Title at their Rebellion PPV, Brian Cage was hospitalized with a back injury. It appears as though Cage was injured after taking a Spanish fly from Impact from the ramp to the floor. Both Cage and his girlfriend Melissa Santos tweeted about his trip to the hospital not long after it happened.

At the ER with @MrGMSI_BCage and we are waiting to be seen, his back was injured. Thank you for the support during this worrisome time. Will keep everyone updated. — Melissa Santos (@ThisIsMelSantos) April 29, 2019