Bryan Danielson Reveals Match That Prompted Him To Pursue In-Ring Return

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Bryan Danielson has named the specific match that made him look into getting medically cleared for an in-ring return.

Danielson retired from in-ring competition in early 2016, as a result of WWE learning more about his medical history. The former WWE Champion remained with the company after hanging up his boots, transitioning into an on-screen SmackDown General Manager role that July.

Speaking during an interview with Wrestling Observer Radio, Danielson revealed that a match between Jon Moxley (fka Dean Ambrose) and AJ Styles made him feel upset that he wasn’t able to wrestle.

Noting that the match prompted him to seriously consider pursuing a wrestling return, Danielson said:

I remember specifically I was watching Mox and AJ Styles – Mox is really interesting when I look at it now, the role he has played in me being where I’m at right now. I watched Mox and AJ Styles wrestling and I had to sit ringside for it for whatever the story was, I don’t remember exactly. I watched it, I got so emotionally bothered, like upset that I wasn’t able to wrestle.

“At that point I was kind of thinking, ‘I think I’m fine’, and that was the real turning point. Then I went home and I talked to Brie, it was like, ‘Hey, I think I want to wrestle’. She’s like, ‘Well, you’re going to have to prove to them that you can wrestle, so what does that take?’. Then I started to come up with a plan and started working on some things and that’s where the story took us.”

Danielson announced that he had been cleared to return to action in WWE in March 2018, returning to the ring at WrestleMania 34 that April.

Currently signed to AEW, Danielson is set to face Jon Moxley at tonight’s Revolution pay-per-view.

Check out the announced line-up for AEW Revolution right here.

Transcription via Inside The Ropes. 

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