“Bryan’s beat up, and I’ve been giving him time to rest and recover. I would love to have Bryan out there all the time, but he’s been home with his family, and he’s doing very well.

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Brie: “This run I’m doing in WWE, I know where I stand, how much longer I have, and what it is. So I’m like, I can’t have any regrets. For me, it’s just been my number one priority. It really has been, that’s for sure. And it’s fun because I feel like people are recognizing all the training I’m doing, especially with Bryan [Danielson] as my coach. I think they’re all seeing the inspiration from Bryan.

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Bryan Danielson stated the following…

“He was very kind and very patient. Sorry, guys, this is hard for me. I didn’t know anything about TV production when I got to WWE. Kerwin was so kind and helpful. And I just want to say our condolences go out to his family and friends. And we love you, man.”

AEW and the wrestling world mourn the passing of Kerwin Silfies.

We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and all who are mourning this loss. pic.twitter.com/p6SnsR8kNi

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) February 19, 2026

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“In April of 2025, Adam Copeland sent me to his physical therapist. He said the guy was a miracle worker. This guy worked on me for two days in a row, six hours each day. After the first night, I slept nine hours straight. After the second night, I slept eight hours straight. After that, I was sleeping seven or eight hours almost every night. That’s a game changer for how you feel.”

“The traveling is so hard on my neck. Once I started traveling again, I went back to sleeping four-and-a-half hours a night. There was a point around Forbidden Door [last August] that I had delusions of wrestling a couple matches a year. After traveling for commentary, I don’t see how it would be possible. And that’s without bumps.”

Despite the traveling issues, Danielson isn’t ruling out the idea of having another match…

“I don’t close it off. Maybe… The traveling itself is so taxing, so I don’t know. We’ll see.”

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Bryan: “So I’m going to say something controversial.”

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“I didn’t train Bryan Danielson, I just saw Bryan on TV and said ‘hey y’all need to get this dude,’” Henry noted. “Because I saw a match he had and I was like ‘this dude is as good as people we’ve got in WWE’. And I lied, I told them he was like six feet tall because they wanted bigger guys, like 200 lbs, and Bryan’s 5′ 11” maybe. To have somebody that’s a Hall of Fame-calibre wrestler that you can hang your hat on is pretty damn cool.” (quote courtesy of F4WOnline.com)

In 2021, Henry told a different version of the story to BT Sports’ The Run-In…

“I had to lie to everybody’s face to get Daniel Bryan looked at. They wanted guys who were big and huge. And I said ‘this guy is like 6’1, 200 lbs. He can get it done. Then he got there and they were like ‘that guy’s not 6’1!’ And I said that he must’ve had lifts in his shoes.”

Mark Henry recalls lying about Bryan Danielson's height in order to convince WWE to sign him:

“I didn't train Bryan Danielson, I just saw Bryan on TV and said 'hey y'all need to get this dude', because I saw a match he had and I was like 'this dude is as good as people we've got… pic.twitter.com/99FQj7VenP

— J O H N (@RomanEra0) December 18, 2025

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What did WWE say was the creative for the Sheamus match at WrestleMania? “What they said is, it’s one move. So yeah, that was the direction.”

Did you ask why? “No. I wasn’t at that point in my career. Also, I’ve never been somebody who’s been like, ‘Wait a second, why would you beat me in 18 seconds?’ Or ‘Why would you beat me with just one move?’ Or whatever it was. It’s like, okay, that’s the creative direction. I’m going to do the best that I can with it. I find that a lot of people put up stinks about a lot of things, or whatever it is, but I think, Okay, if you have an idea, it’s like well what if we do this? ‘Nope, we want to do that.’ I mean, you can put up a little resistance if you really don’t like something, but then if this is what the boss wants, you’re better off to do your absolute best at what the boss wants, and then try to get over from that. I think a great example in AEW is Swerve Strickland. He came in and he lost a lot of matches, but it was always like, ‘Yeah Tony, whatever you need. I’ll go out there and do it.’ Then now look at him. He’s main evented pay-per-views. He’s a world champion. He’s fantastic. There will be people who will take the other idea of, oh, I don’t want to do that, or I don’t even want to lose, or this or that, or whatever. Man, it’s not real [laughs]. I mean, there’s a couple guys in wrestling who would do well in MMA, there’s a couple, not many [laughs]. So it’s like, okay. I mean, if you want to win every match, you can go try MMA. You could even just try out the best guy at the local gym here in Houston in your weight class and see how it goes. Not to say that guys in wrestling couldn’t do it. It’s just we haven’t spent time training together. But yeah, I’ve always been a little bit perplexed by some of that kind of stuff.”

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His neck issues: “So I have degeneration from C1 all the way down to T2. [Your entire neck?] Yeah. So it’s like I’m on the cusp of needing surgery. It’s this weird line. I’d like to avoid surgery as much as possible. So my last neck surgery, I never fully recovered from it in the sense of getting back the strength gains and the mobility and all that sort of thing. So I’d really like to avoid it as much as possible, especially because my son is a menace. I had a broken arm, you have a big cast, I’m in a sling. I was like, ‘Buddy, you can’t touch daddy’s arm.’ And he’s jumping on my arm and all this kind of stuff. And I’m just like, Oh no, if I get neck surgery, it’s not like you wear a neck brace, not like you walk around in a neck brace. He’s pure boy. No matter how many times Brie tells him, and I tell him, but not as forcefully as Brie does, but Brie is, like, ‘Get off of daddy’s neck!’ And he just can’t not do it. It’s just like a boy thing. Our daughter is super good about it, but he’s all boy.”

Are you retired from the ring? “I hate the R word because I was forced to retire before. So I never consider myself fully retired. This is how I think, and this is how a lot of wrestlers think, Well, I think I could do this in this situation, if needed, or called upon, or whatever it is. But effectively for the Bryan Danielson that I used to be, yeah, that guy doesn’t exist anymore.”

Do you want to go back if you can’t be that Bryan Danielson? “I would love to, but not on TV. So, for example, I spent a large portion of my early career doing Butlins shows in the UK, because I was very bad at performing and being entertaining. William Regal hooked me up with Brian Dixon. We’d go over and do these Butlins holiday camps. So you pay $500 for a weekend, and your whole family can go. It includes food. It includes entertainment. So you see magicians, you see musicians, you can go to a dance hall, and oh, in the afternoon, there’s wrestling. So these people aren’t wrestling fans. They just want to be entertained. You know what I mean? So William Regal had me go over there, because although I naturally picked up the wrestling aspect of it very quickly, I did not pick up the entertainment aspect very quickly. So I spent a lot of time, and I learned to love it. I’d sing the American National Anthem, very poorly, and forget the words. There would be times where I’d be like, Okay, how many times can I accidentally hit myself in the crotch and all these sorts of things. We were doing it six, seven days a week, every week. The first time I went was 2003 and I was there for six months, and in the last 15 days I was there, I wrestled 21 matches. So you kind of have to with this kind of schedule, and you’re doing long drives every day and all that kind of stuff. With that kind of schedule, you had to be more entertaining. That’s what Regal said. He said that stuff saved me when I was hurt. When you look at William Regal’s career, I remember all the great wrestling matches. But what I think a lot of fans remember is his comedy skits backstage and how funny he was. Then, if you look at his ring stuff, when he was doing a lot of flexing and then pushing his bicep up and all that kind of stuff. But that’s all stuff that you learn from doing these holiday camps versus, at the time, I was doing a lot of independent wrestling that was very much geared towards having great matches, right? So yeah, I think I could go have fun matches and have fun doing the fun matches. But then I don’t think that’s the kind of wrestling fans would want to pay to see Bryan Danielson do.”

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“I was talking with some of the girls, and we were talking about my match last week. I was like, ‘Yeah, and Bryan and blah blah,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh my god, how cool. So Bryan gives you advice?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, he gives me feedback. He’s sent me stuff to watch. He’ll tell me things to work on.’ And they’re like, ‘Dude, you’re so lucky.’ And I’m like, ‘I know.’ And I go, ‘He’s honest—very honest.’

Did you notice how I was a little more- I had more intensity going into things? I was really trying to think of it, which I still need to continue, but I think you saw it even more so than my match before. Those were things that I told myself.”

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“He’ll be back. To be honest, there was a couple of things. I think it made sense, given what was happening with the main event. I think it would have been really, really hard for Bryan to restrain himself and now knowing what Jon (Moxley) had planned, I also think it would have been really hard for Bryan to sit there at the desk while Darby is in that position, and since Bryan had a family commitment, I told him, ‘Hey, if you have a family thing tonight, it’s probably the night to go to your family commitment. Because I don’t wanna put you in a position where you might be risking your job if you get up from the desk and interfere in this match.’

So it’s worked out for everybody because Bryan was able to be with his family as planned and we had, I think, one of our very best pay-per-views tonight and Bryan didn’t have to risk his job by being in that position at the desk where he’s in a no-man’s land, right?” (quote courtesy of Andrew Thompson)

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