Former AEW World Champion, and recent AEW World Trios Champion, Samoa Joe is not medically cleared to compete and missed "AEW Dynamite" on Wednesday. According to Excalibur, on commentary during the opening match pitting Kenny Omega against Rocky Romero, Joe was injured while training. Joe most recently scored a victory over "Speedball" Mike Bailey on the January 21 edition of "Dynamite." Prior to that, The Opps, Joe alongside Powerhouse Hobbs and Katsuyori Shibata, dropped the trios titles to Bailey, Kevin Knight, and "Hangman" Adam Page on "AEW Collision," as Hobbs had left the company following the show's taping. In recent weeks, he had been trying to get back to the title in a crowded main event scene involving Page, Strickland, and Omega.