Bryan Danielson On An In Ring Return: If I’m Going To Do It, It Can’t Be At The Scale I Did It Before

Bryan Danielson considers a return to the ring.

At AEW WrestleDream 2024, Danielson would lose the world championship of All Elite Wrestling before keeping his promise that he would retire from the ring once he lost the title. Since then, Bryan has found himself as a new part of the AEW Dynamite announce desk, but for Bryan, he will never say never on returning to the ring.

While speaking to the Wide World Of Sports in a new interview, Bryan Danielson was asked if he considered retiring at Wembley Stadium at All In 2024.

“Yeah 100 per cent – that was definitely a thought that I had, one of the things that I thought was that regardless of if I win or lose this match, it was being able to celebrate the end of my career with my family. If I win, great, I celebrate the title win with my family. If I lose, celebrate this incredible journey that I have been on, with my family, in the middle of the ring. Both things would have been great and the idea is that if it was going to be my last match, you want to give everything you have and don’t leave anything on the table. None of us necessarily deserve any of these things, I haven’t done anything to deserve 50,000 people in a stadium and my family being able to be there and main eventing the show … that’s how I look back on it, from a gratitude perspective.”

The idea of a return to the ring was once again broached to Danielson, who mentioned that he would never say never, but it would have to be different than before.

“It’s interesting, because you never say never – but there’s not an appeal to me to go out there and do that type of match that I did with Swerve Strickland. Sure, there’s the part when I’m watching it, I get super excited and think I would love to get back in there – but then it’s like, what are you talking about? My body physically can’t do some of those things anymore. If I’m going to do it, it can’t be at the scale that I did it before. If I tried to do some of the things I did in my last year with AEW right now, I don’t think I’d be able to go back and hold my kids. Anything that I would do moving forward has to be with that in mind, because that is now my number one priority. Stay healthy, be at home and play with my kids and coach my son’s tee-ball team.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Danielson spoke about how he is currently content in his retirement, much more so than his retirement in 2016. You can read more about that here.