Ohio Valley Wrestling issues statement regarding referee suffering a medical emergency during broadcast
Ohio Valley Wrestling issued the following statement in regards to an incident that occurred during the promotion’s March 12th 2026 event…
“Last night during Rise, referee Dallas Edwards – a member of our OVW family – experienced a medical emergency during the broadcast. OVW takes the health and well-being of all our performers extremely seriously, and as a company we are all distraught to see an injury to one of our own.
Dallas is alert and doing much better. We ask everyone to keep him in your thoughts and prayers and respect his and his family’s privacy at this time.
We will provide an update as soon as it is available, but in the meantime, we wish Dallas a speedy recovery and we can’t wait until he’s back with our OVW family very soon.”
— OVW Wrestling (@ovwrestling) March 13, 2026
Edwards’ girlfriend issued the following comment in regards to the incident…
“Please keep Dallas in your thoughts as your day begins. I am not going to provide much more information at this time except to the parties who already know, but last night resulted in a brain injury that is being monitored and will continue to be monitored by doctors here.
Seeing all the support you guys have already given is amazing and I didn’t want to leave everyone without some kind of update.”
Footage of the incident can be seen below but be forewarned that the content is disturbing.
the spot pic.twitter.com/cten69IXBS
— swerve (@swerve383658) March 13, 2026