Bryan Danielson on Being Unsure If He Will Ever Wrestle Again After He Loses AEW World Title

KIRO 7 Seattle’s Shawn Garrett held a recent interview with Bryan Danielson. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about his upcoming match against Jon Moxley at AEW WrestleDream 2024 and him being unsure if he will ever wrestle again after he loses the AEW World Championship.

“The idea is that whenever I lose this title, whether it’s sometime down the road or whether it’s tomorrow against Jon Moxley, that’ll be it for me as a full-time wrestler. The reality is right now I need neck surgery and that’s coming sooner rather than later. So there’s going to be a point where this is untenable for me. And after the neck surgery, we’ll see where we’re at.

Will I ever wrestle again once I lose the title? I don’t know. You know, my, my heart says “yes”, because I love wrestling, but I put my body through a lot to get to this success that I’ve had. And at some point you you have to — what is it? — know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.”

Danielson also gave his thoughts about which wrestlers from AEW he would still like to face for a potential match in the future.

“Okay, so for example, I have yet to wrestle Darby Allin, who’s from this area, right? I would love to wrestle Darby Allin. I haven’t wrestled Orange Cassidy in AEW. I would love to wrestle Orange Cassidy. Ricochet just came to AEW, I haven’t wrestled Ricochet. I’d love to wrestle Ricochet.

I’m from a generation who got sick of people saying, okay, this is my retirement, and then they come back. So that’s why I say, okay, if I lose, this will be the end of my full-time career, because there’s all these things. I still love wrestling. There’s all these things that if I think too much about them, I get super excited.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com