AEW: Bryan Danielson on Broken Arm Injury & Missing All In, Jim Ross Skin Cancer Recovery Update, More News

Bryan Danielson Comments on His Broken Arm Injury & Missing AEW All In

A recent episode of The Nikki & Brie Show podcast featured Bryan Danielson as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about his match with Kazuchika Okada at this past June’s Forbidden Door II event and missing AEW’s upcoming All In event due to his broken arm injury.

“He did an elbow drop to me off the top rope. It ended up breaking my arm. I wrestled another ten minutes with a broken arm, which the doctor said made it worse. That said, I find a certain joy in doing things that are hard. Even though it probably caused me a little bit more damage, I got more value out of it that it happened versus if it had not happened. Even though, if I could take it back, I would wish my arm never got broken and that I’d be able to wrestle at All In in Wembley, it’s going to be one of the biggest wrestling crowds in history, and I don’t get to take part in it because my arm is still healing. Despite that, and I wouldn’t ask for my arm to be broken if I could do it over again, but because it did happen and I couldn’t control it, it almost gave more meaning to how I felt about the match itself. Also, I did a press conference with my broken arm. We didn’t know how bad it was at the time. I do this a lot with fasting, and there are a lot of health benefits to fasting, when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position or you do something and it’s uncomfortable and you keep doing it, it’s not like, ‘yay, I did it.’ It’s ‘can I do this?’ For example, while fasting or wrestling with a broken arm, can I do this and keep a good attitude while being in pain, while being starving? Those are things I think to myself when things are happening. That’s one of the matches I really like if I’m looking back on something versus experiencing something in the moment. I enjoyed that match with Okada.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Jim Ross Comments on MRI Test Being Negative for Cancer on His An

As noted before, Jim Ross has been recovering from radiation treatments for his successful bout against skin cancer since December of 2021.

Ross recently provided an update on Twitter stating that a recent MRI test came back negative for cancer on his tibia.

GOOD NEWS!

MRI came back negative!

No cancer in my tibia. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/di9fqiWWsb

— Jim Ross (@JRsBBQ) August 22, 2023

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AEW News & Notes

Swerve Strickland recently released a teaser trailer on Twitter for his upcoming new music video.

AEW recently announced that they will be holding pre-orders for the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the original All In event at their ShopAEW online store for the next two weeks starting today.

AEW also recently announced that their upcoming Stadium Stampede DLC pack for their AEW Fight Forever video game will be released this Thursday.

In a recent AMA session on Reddit’s r/SquaredCircle, Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts about being proud of the Young Bucks for taking their All In creation to another level. Rhodes stated “I will be working that day, but I am very happy for the guys and girls competing out there. I am proud of Matt/Nick for taking our creation to another level. Also shout out to my Sister, Teil, who named the event and Joe Koff at ROH for helping us and allowing us the chance to do it ourselves.“

MJF recently reflected on Twitter about WWE’s recent success with their record-breaking sales for WrestleMania 40 and AEW’s own success with their record breaking All In event. MJF stated “Both companies setting attendance/gates records left and right. Pro wrestling is winning. The fans are winning. But most importantly and I think we can all agree on this, I’m winning. #Betterthanyou“

Chris Jericho recently announced on Twitter that his band Fozzy will be performing “Judas” live at AEW’s upcoming All In event this Sunday in London, England. Jericho stated “HUGE NEWS! @FOZZYROCK will be playing #Judas LIVE at #AEWAllIn from @wembleystadium! And get tix NOW for the biggest headlining show in our history this Friday at @O2ForumKTown at http://Fozzyrock.com!“

In a recent interview with the Talk Is Jericho podcast, Trent Beretta revealed the origin of Orange Cassidy’s half-hearted thumbs up routine for his character. Beretta stated “We did this show in China, and it was an advertisement in an airport for whatever it was, Chinese Soda, and for whatever reason, his [billboard ad person] thumb was a shitty half-assed thumbs up. That was the thing the whole tour we were all doing. His [Ad Person] thumb looked great, he was just being lazy. It became a thing we did all tour. It fits him [Orange Cassidy] perfectly.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)