10 Most Uncanny Predictions Ever Made About Wrestling
3. Dave Meltzer Predicts The Return Of Daniel Bryan Two Years Prior
When Daniel Bryan was medically disqualified and forced to retire by WWE, Dave Meltzer wrote the following in the February 13, 2016 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
"Injuries do heal, even to the surprise of doctors. As more and more knowledge comes with the specifics of brain injuries, solutions and aids in healing those specific issues, will also be worked on. This is a science that is changing rapidly. Whether [Bryan Danielson] realizes it today or not, it is entirely possible that time and knowledge will lead to healing his small subacute or chronic lesion in his temporoparietal region of his brain. It is unlikely, but it's far from impossible, that one day he will show up on television and surprise everyone, telling them, `Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.'"
Daniel Bryan was medically cleared on March 20, 2018, and when he showed up on television, he didn't allude to his next programme. He spent 10 highly-charged minutes extending his gratitude to his fans, WWE and its medical staff, and his wife Brie Bella.
It was a bold prediction from Meltzer, but not some romanticised, uninformed guess. He sensed, without knowing the actual reality, that WWE might have had a disproportionately cynical perspective on things, given the way in which Dr. Joseph Maroon was portrayed in the film 'Concussion'. He knew Danielson would indeed fight for his dreams. He consults with medical professionals to inform his stories (which makes it all the wilder that he thought Shibata's brain was removed from his heid during surgery).
He knows that never literally never means never in pro wrestling.