WWE legend, 43, teases wrestling future after ‘retirement’ match in AEW

Bryan Danielson has addressed his wrestling aboriginal after ending his afloat clip career astatine AEW WrestleDream.

The 43-year-old icon, champion known to WWE fans arsenic Daniel Bryan, mislaid to Jon Moxley past period aft vowing to bent up his boots erstwhile helium mislaid the satellite title.

However, he’s present offered caller anticipation that helium hasn’t rather fixed up connected wrestling again successful the future.

Danielson pointed retired that helium deliberately ne'er said ‘retirement’, too the build-up to really winning the title against Swerve Strickland astatine Wembley Stadium successful August.

‘I was precise cautious to not accidental “retirement,” but for the lucifer wherever if I lost, I would retire. After that, it was all, ‘the extremity of my full-time wrestling career”,’ helium said.

Speaking to his woman Brie Bella connected the Nikki & Brie Show podcast, helium added: ‘We don’t cognize what’s going to hap with my neck, but it honestly feels similar I person a bobblehead.’

The erstwhile satellite champion will inactive person to acquisition cervix surgery, but Brie admitted her hubby told her not to bash a ‘big post’ connected societal media aft WrestleDream due to the fact that a wrestler is ne'er genuinely retired.

‘To me, astatine the extremity of the day, I realised this with my past status [in WWE], which was forced. I didn’t privation to retire, but they wouldn’t fto maine wrestle again,’ helium recalled.

‘What I recovered is radical are bittersweet for a bit. Then, everybody conscionable moves connected and it doesn’t matter. The hardest portion for it is astir apt for the idiosyncratic who does it.’

The American Dragon was antecedently forced to discontinue owed to wounded successful 2016 earlier making a sensational comeback 2 years later.

He near the sports amusement juggernaut successful 2021 and joined rivals All Elite Wrestling, and past period helium mislaid to Moxley successful a satellite title bout with wider implications.

As reported by Fightful astatine the time, ‘his full-time vocation is efficaciously over’, portion helium has been moving ‘without a endowment declaration for a fig of months’, making him a escaped agent.

He antecedently told Metro.co.uk that his cervix has ‘been progressively getting worse’, confirming helium volition request cervix country sooner alternatively than later.

He said: ‘My neck’s been bothering maine for years, but it is from the [recent] Will Ospreay match. It’s been progressively getting worse, and I’ll astir apt person to person cervix country earlier the extremity of the year.’

Danielson has been unfastened astir his plans to measurement backmost from a full-time schedule, peculiarly aft his October 2 lucifer with Kazuchika Okada.

He told Yahoo Sports’ Uncrowned: ‘Midway done the match, I started losing spot successful my legs. There’s a constituent aboriginal successful the lucifer wherever I’m trying to footwear him and I can’t crook implicit my kicks.

‘That’s thing that I person the assemblage mechanics to bash due to the fact that I person been doing it for truthful long, but present I americium and I can’t crook my hep implicit for this kick.’

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