AEW WrestleDream review: The fall of Bryan Danielson

Most retirements in wrestling these days end on a good note. That’s probably why seeing AEW do the complete opposite was so surprising. The end of Bryan Danielson’s full-time wrestling career ended at WrestleDream in one of the saddest stories you’ll ever see in modern pro wrestling. Danielson, hometown hero, passed out to Moxley’s rear naked choke, losing the AEW World title and thus, his career as we know it. Moxley, who has spent the last month speaking in riddles and making demands, ordered the rest of what used to be the Blackpool Combat Club to attack Danielson. Darby Allin and Wheeler Yuta attempted to make the save, but Yuta showed his true colors by laying out Allin. Moxley then ordered Yuta to use the plastic bag on Danielson like Moxley himself did at All Out. Then Claudio Castagnoli stomped Danielson’s neck wrapped in a steel chair as more babyfaces attempted to make the save, but it was all futile as the damage had been done. The show ended with the announcers, the crowd, and the locker room sor