After being announced as a participant in the Ultimate X Match at Impact's Slammiversary Pay-Per-View, Jack Evans, one half of the former AEW tag team The Hybrid2, has been removed from the contest “out of an abundance of caution” and will instead be replaced by Andrew “The Giant” Everett, who some fans might recall from having a 57-second match on Rampage versus Shawn Spears back in January.

Now granted, for fans of the GCW, this shouldn't come as too big of a surprise, as Evans suffered a pretty nasty landing in a match with Ninja Mack at You Wouldn't Understand, where he landed right on his neck after botching an attempted 630 senton off the top rope.

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Yikes, that does not look good.

Since leaving AEW, Evans has been a fixture of the independent wrestling scene, with 10 matches under his belt since making his post-AEW re-debut on RIOT La Rina 2022. Since then, he's wrestled for VxS, Prestige, Progress, and AIW, before making his GCW debut at You Wouldn't Understand, which, coincidentally enough, was his first major promotion Pay-Per-View performance since July of 2019, when he and Angelico lost to The Dark Order in a three-way match that also featured a tag team then-known as A Boy and His Dinosaur.

Goodness, in 2019, Jurassic Express wasn't even the tag team's name, and Fight for the Fallen wasn't a free match on television. Early AEW was wild.

While losing Jack Evans for the Ultimate X Match is a bummer, as the bout headlined by Ace Austin and Alex Zayne should be the highlight of Slammiversary, hopefully he'll be cleared to wrestle in the not-too-distant future, as his post-AEW run has been interesting indeed.