5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 23)

5. YES! YES! YES!

Daniel Bryan required experimental oxygen treatment to heal his brain. His fans required oxygen masks upon learning that, after a two-year absence, the most popular North American wrestler of the decade is resuming his in-ring career.

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Every last second of his SmackDown appearance was phenomenal. His return speech was both emotional and inspiring, his dismissal of Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn loaded with conflicted, believable pathos. When the time came to get physical, it was as if Bryan hadn't spent the previous two years on literal gardening leave: eliciting the adrenaline and sympathy that only he can command, Bryan literally threw himself back into the role by flooring Owens and Zayn with corner dropkicks before teasing his new repertoire with a jaw-dropping snap German suplex imported from New Japan Pro Wrestling. He also sold expertly for a cartoonish heel duo that now translates as a genuinely menacing main event-level threat. His taking a powerbomb on the apron underscored that this is a full-on return.

Is this the happiest wrestling week ever? Beyond Bryan's belated rebound, the Bray Wyatt character is potentially no more (more on that imminently). What next? Will The Revival receive a long-overdue push? Rusev? Will the dreary and unnecessary Jonathan Coachman succeed in his inadvertent attempts to get fired?

Since he plugged his own business on RAW, a no-no, you'd think, then perhaps - especially since he has named it 'Coach 'Em Up' which, given the looming ESPN scandal, is drastically misjudged.

It's like if Vince McMahon rebranded his company as the Problematic Steroid Abusers in 1992. It's just as bad a PSA.

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