Last Wednesday on “AEW Dynamite,” Bryan Danielson sustained an injury, later announced by Tony Schiavone to be a broken orbital bone. The injury came during a tag match that included the “Dynamite” debut of Kazuchika Okada, with Danielson and partner Claudio Castagnoli eventually coming out on top. Today’s “Wrestling Observer Radio” features another update on Danielson’s condition, with Dave Meltzer reporting that the AEW star has undergone surgery for the fracture.
The company was reportedly hopeful that Danielson’s injury would not require surgery, but it turned out that the performer needed a procedure to heal properly. Meltzer pointed out the bad luck of Danielson’s AEW run thus far, with the 42-year-old suffering several unrelated injuries that have put him on the shelf for months at a time. The same can be said for Adam Cole, who debuted the same night as Danielson before being forced to spend much of 2022 away from the ring due to serious concussions. Cole is currently out of action again with an ankle injury.
Just last month, Danielson announced his intention to wrap up his full-time wrestling career within the next year. That makes the timing of his current injury all the worse, and it’s unclear if Danielson will look to extend that timeframe based on how long it takes for him to get back in the ring this time around.
Danielson was also injured wrestling against Okada back in June when the two faced off at the second annual AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. Danielson fractured his forearm in that match, though he soldiered through the injury to win the bout.
UPDATE:
Bryan Danielson is currently out of action because of a broken orbital bone, but the injury did not happen as initially thought.
The original belief was that it occurred during the tag team match with Claudio Castagnoli against Orange Cassidy and Kazuchika Okada on last week’s Dynamite.
However, according to Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Radio, the injury actually occurred during a recent match when he collided heads with Andrade.
Believed to have occurred in a tag match with Claudio Castagnoli against Okada and Orange Cassidy on last Wednesday’s “AEW Dynamite,” Danielson may have actually wrestled in that bout already having suffered the new break. According to the latest “Wrestling Observer Radio,” Danielson’s injury occurred four days earlier on “AEW Collision” during his match with Andrade El Idolo. In the course of the match Andrade went for a back elbow. The two men’s heads accidentally collided, and Andrade hit Danielson in the eye.
Danielson was sporting a black eye following the match, but the severity of the injury was not clear to him or AEW at first — some thought it was initially nothing serious at all. But once things became more apparent, the call was made to do the angle seen on “Dynamite” where Danielson took both an Orange Punch from Cassidy and a Rainmaker from Okada, paving the way to write him off television for the time being.
It is still uncertain whether he will choose to undergo surgery to repair it.
Whether or not Danielson opts for surgery is up in the air right now. Both he and AEW are optimistic that it might not be necessary for recovery and that the broken orbital bone could heal naturally, reducing the time he’d need to be away from the ring.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
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