Various: Daniel Bryan Health Update, TV Industry Views Wrestling as Cold Market, Indies

Daniel Bryan Health Status Update

As noted before, Daniel Bryan had been out of action for WWE since last month’s WrestleMania 35 due to suffering an undisclosed injury. Bryan was medically cleared by WWE doctors last week and made his in-ring return at last night’s episode of RAW.

In an update to Bryan’s health status, Dave Meltzer reported that Bryan’s mysterious injury is rumored to have likely been concussion related. Meltzer also reported that this is the current assumption within WWE due to Bryan’s past history with concussions and WWE officials keeping the exact nature of his injury closely under wraps.

TV Industry Reportedly Views Wrestling as a Cold Market for Television

Due to WWE’s rapidly declining viewership, the current feeling within the television industry is that wrestling is a “cold” market and is now less valuable than before for television networks, according to Dave Meltzer.

Raw’s ratings could possibly affect the industry as a whole, including AEW, which has not officially finalized their TV deal yet.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

David Starr defeated Jordan Devlin in the finals of this year’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament held by PROGRESS Wrestling.

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced a new match for the card of their Dominion 2019 event on June 9th in Osaka, Japan:
– NEVER Openweight Championship – Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi (c)

NJPW also announced a new match for the card of their Best of the Super Juniors 2019 finals on June 5th in Tokyo, Japan:
– Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jay White

Ring of Honor announced a new match for the card of their ROH-NJPW War of the Worlds 2019 event on May 11th in Grand Rapids, Michigan:
– Women of Honor Championship – Stacy Shadows vs. Kelly Klein (c)