A recent episode of the Casual Conversations with The Wrestling Classic podcast featured Bryan Danielson as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about what he has left on his checklist for his active in-ring wrestling career and revealed that his current contract with AEW expires before this August’s All In 2024 event.
“The big one is Wembley (that is left on my wrestling checklist). I wanna make it to Wembley. My contract actually expires before Wembley. But I wanna make it to Wembley… I’m not sure if I’ll make it, but one thing that would be a nice way to kind of close everything out for me is to do my last match as a full-time wrestler at WrestleDream at the Tacoma Dome — we’re doing the Tacoma Dome — because that’s the first wrestling show I ever saw. It was WWF and it was Ultimate Warrior versus Rick Rude in the main event and it’s the first time my sister ever saw a male butt cheek. My dad talked about it till the day he died. The Ultimate Warrior sunset flips Rick Rude, Rick Rude’s back and butt are facing directly towards us and then Ultimate Warrior pulls down his pants, we see his butt-cheeks and my sister’s cheeks go bright red. My dad howled about that until the day he died.”
Danielson also provided an update on the health of his neck stating that he actually hurt his neck following a frankensteiner he gave to Will Ospreay during their match together at this past April’s AEW Dynasty event.
“My neck hurts (following the match against Will Ospreay at AEW Dynasty) … So yeah, I’m having some issues with my neck. There was a thing when I gave him a frankensteiner and he landed on his feet and in the background, nobody noticed it I don’t think at the time… I’m not on social media much but, yeah… But when I did it, I just landed right on my head and I was like, oh my gosh, and so, I’ve needed some time after that. The M.R.I. (shows) I’m okay. But how do I feel on a day-to-day basis? My neck is like, ah… And I don’t know if this is good or this is bad but you come to see pain as just perception. It’s a perception… And especially like, for example, in mediation, so, I get a lot of ulnar nerve pain which is I think you have C6/C7, when those are compressed, pain that comes down the back of your arm into your pinky and all that kind of stuff and so when you’re sitting in meditation, that doesn’t go away and you go to examine what is that? What is that? And we identify it as bad, negative. But those are also mental constructions of what it is. It’s just a signal that something is… I’ve started to see pain as that more and more as I’ve gotten older and that sort of thing and I find it to be a very useful paradigm as far as how I look at pain because it can also be like, okay, that means this needs to be fixed or it means this needs to be done differently or all those different sorts of things. Yeah, it’s a signal.”
Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com