Folks, I’m just going to say it—AEW might want to consider bubble-wrapping its roster and adding a nurse’s station at Gorilla. We’ve got another boomerang injury situation on our hands, and this time it’s “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis, the man who fights like a kaiju and unfortunately breaks like a breadstick.
Reports from Fightful Select (the folks who are basically the wrestling CIA at this point) say Davis got dinged up during his match against Powerhouse Hobbs on the March 26 episode of Dynamite. Now, nobody’s quite sure when or how it happened—maybe Hobbs sneezed too aggressively, or Davis tripped on a stray turnbuckle bolt—but insiders say backstage morale dipped like a ratings chart in a Rampage timeslot.
Let’s talk about Mark Davis for a second. This man just clawed his way back to TV from a wrist injury he picked up at WrestleDream 2023. That one benched him for over a year—long enough for an entire CM Punk return arc to happen and collapse again.
Davis returned on the “Fright Night” edition of Dynamite in October 2024 (spooky theme, spooky comeback) and was immediately forced into The Don Callis Family. That’s like getting released from jail just to end up living in your ex’s basement. Against all odds—and Don Callis’ unholy hairline—he started thriving as a singles star, even making it to the finals of the AEW International Championship Eliminator Tournament. That’s a mouthful, but so is this man’s resilience.
But alas, AEW’s medical clearance process, which apparently involves throwing darts at an X-ray, might’ve missed a spot, because Davis was reportedly not fully cleared even when he first got signed. I mean, folks, the man had more red flags than a North Korean parade.
Now, with Dynasty 2025 around the corner, the roster’s looking more like a hospital wing than a fight card. Jay White? Hurt. Orange Cassidy? Hurt. Mark Davis? Hurt again. If this keeps up, Tony Khan’s going to have to run Dynasty with holograms and hope no one gets virtual whiplash.