Bryan Danielson is once again on the sidelines as he suffered a broken orbital bone while working a tag team match with Claudio Castagnoli against Orange Cassidy and Kazuchika Okada on Dynamite. Now, he’ll need surgery to fix it.
This comes at a time when he has already announced he plans to reduce his full-time wrestling schedule in 2024 and had hopes of working the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom show in January.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted it’s unclear whether Danielson will be able to make it in time for the show due to the injury.
“Yeah, it’s sad….I don’t know if he makes it to the Tokyo Dome show…It may be touch and go if he had surgery for January 4th. Hopefully, he can do it. Hopefully, he can finish the next however many months it is. He didn’t put a time on exactly when it is next year that he’s gonna be done. In theory, his contract would be over in September.” Obviously, Tony could extend it, but he’s not gonna be a dirty guy in the situation if Bryan wants to be finished. If Bryan promised he’s gonna be finished at the end of this contract, then he wants to be finished. The guy can always quit; he just can’t go back to WWE, and I don’t think he’s gonna go back to WWE at this point, not that he’s got anything against WWE, and never say never, I don’t wanna say he’d never do it.”
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