Christopher Daniels Admits Brutal Eye Injury Was Fake All Along

Back in 2021, Christopher Daniels suffered an eye injury, which saw his left eye become fully red for a long time. In 2023, Daniels revealed that his eye had fully healed but now Daniels has admitted that he actually faked the injury for a long time.

While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Christopher Daniels revealed that his eye injury was actually never real. After his match with The Young Bucks, where SCU broke up, he got kicked into the ring post and ended up with a real black eye. It filled with blood and looked bad, but it healed in just three days. Daniels thought it was too bad it went away so fast, so he came up with an idea to keep it going.

At that time, Abadon was in AEW and wore special contacts. Daniels asked if she knew someone who could make one for him. He wanted a lens that made his eye look damaged, like a permanent injury.

Daniels created a story for AEW and Tony Khan, saying he was a ring general who failed, SCU broke up because of him, and now he only had his wrestling career left along with this scar. After that match, he even told Matt and Nick Jackson and Frankie Kazarian it could be his last match, and if he retired because of it, he’d be okay with that.

“So, news flash, that was never real. So I had the match with The Young Bucks, all right, and all of you that are watching now, you’re gonna feel this. So I had the match with The Young Bucks where SCU split up. I got super kicked into the post, and the next day, I had this huge black eye, and it started to fill with blood. I thought, Man, that’s pretty cool. Then three days later, it healed. I was like, Oh, that’s too bad, but then I thought, what if? So at the time, Abadon was working for us, and they wear these contacts.

And I said, ‘Do you have a guy that does these contacts, because I want to do this thing?’ They’re like, Yeah. They put me in touch with this guy. I was like, Listen, this is what I want. I just want to make it look like a hemorrhage. I had pitched this idea of I had lost everything. I made this video that I presented to AEW and Tony. And I was like, Hey, here’s the story. I was the ring general, but my plans failed, and because of that, SCU is no longer a thing, and now I have this scar to show for my failure. But I’m going to come back, and all I have left is my career and my fighting. So I sent this in, and at the end of that match, I even said to Matt and Nick and Frankie, this might be my last match. I could retire from this. And if I retire because of this, cool.”

Daniels eventually gave the eye idea to Tony Khan again and did some indie shows, hoping it would help him get back on AEW TV. Six months later, he returned for a match against Bryan Danielson when AEW bought Ring of Honor. Daniels wore the contact lens for about a year and a half, even though the story didn’t really go anywhere. After some time, he decided it was finally time for his eye to “heal.”

Daniels wore the contact everywhere. When he went to the Heels premiere and met Stephen Amell, Amell was shocked by his eye. Later, when they met again at AEW Grand Slam, Amell noticed his eye was fine. Daniels told him it was fake and Amell laughed, saying he got him good.

“So I didn’t wrestle for like, three or four months, and then I came up with this idea, gave it to Tony, and then I started doing a little bit of the Indies. I thought, Okay, well, this will get me back on television, but we never really capitalized on that. Then I came back six months later to do the match with Bryan when AEW bought Ring of Honor. That was my first match back from whenever I made the match with The Bucks. So yeah, so that was the mentality of let’s do this thing. So I kept it for a long time, and then later down the line, I was like, Oh, we’re not really concentrating on this. This isn’t really a thing anymore. So I was like, Yeah, you know what?

Maybe it’s time for the eye to heal. I wore it for like a year and a half, and I wore it everywhere. The first time I debuted it out in public, I went to the Heels premiere, I met Stephen Amell. He’s like, ‘Oh my god, your eye.’ And I was like, yeah, man, it’s okay. And then the next time he saw me was that we were at Grand Slam and Arthur Ashe, and he comes up to me, goes, ‘Hey, your eye has healed.’ And I was like, ‘Hey, that was fake.’ He was like, ‘You son of a b****!’ I was like, ‘Listen, we just watched a television show about a caped man. So what did you want?'”

Christopher Daniels really managed to fool everyone into thinking his eye was actually injured for so long, but it just goes to show how great of a worker he truly is. Regardless, Daniels has retired from in-ring competition and is now focused on a backstage and on-screen role and that’s all that matters to him now.

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