Bryan Danielson provides wrestling career update following his loss at AEW WrestleDream 2024

As seen during the 2024 AEW WrestleDream PPV event, Jon Moxley defeated Bryan Danielson to capture the AEW world title. The belief is that this was Bryan’s last performance as a full-time wrestler and an injury angle took place after the match ended.

While speaking with his wife Brie on The Nikki & Brie Show Bryan gave an update on his health…

“I was very cautious to not say ‘retirement,’ except for the match where if I lost (against Swerve), I would retire. After that, it was all, ‘the end of my full-time wrestling career.’ We don’t know what’s going to happen with my neck, but it honestly feels like I have a bobblehead.”

“To me, at the end of the day, I realized this with my last retirement, which was forced. I didn’t want to retire, but they wouldn’t let me wrestle again. What I found is people are sad for a bit. Then, everybody just moves on and it doesn’t matter. The hardest part for it is probably for the person who does it.”

Bryan also commented on not wrestling…

“That’s one of the things I haven’t found something for, for that part of my brain, to use that creative part of my brain and coming up with things. I still, it’s been over a month now since my last match, and I still wake up in the middle of the night and think of wrestling things. ‘This is not useful. I wish I would have thought of this a few years ago.’ That’s been the part that’s hard, but I anticipated it. (quotes courtesy of Jeremy Lambert)