Dalton Castle to miss remainder of 2024 following AEW Collision injury
Dalton Castle is going to be out of action for the remainder of 2024.
The former ROH World Champion was injured in a match against Roderick Strong on the July 10 AEW Collision taping. He was knocked unconscious after taking a flying knee from Strong, which resulted in the match ending earlier than planned.
AEW president Tony Khan posted to X on Saturday that Castle will miss the rest of the year.
“Some injury news that’s forced changes to the plans for this Friday’s #ROHDBD Death Before Dishonor @theDALTONcastle was injured in his Saturday Night #AEWCollision bout last week vs @roderickstrong. Sadly Dalton will be out of action for the remainder of 2024. Get well soon DC”
Castle’s injury was addressed on Wrestling Observer Radio last week. Dave Meltzer noted that there was an obvious production edit during the finish of the match when it aired.
“What happened was, it was a flying knee that knocked out Dalton Castle,” Meltzer said.
“He got knocked out. The referee counts one, two, held up the count because it wasn’t supposed to be the pin. Then counted three because Dalton Castle never moved and they didn’t show Dalton Castle, he was on the ground for several minutes. So, they didn’t show any of that.”
“You could see the edit. The edit was that the referee held up the count, Dalton didn’t kick out and the referee had to count the three because Dalton wasn’t getting up.”
“In the building, this was a complete mess and they were very lucky that this show was taped for this reason,” he continued.