Jon Moxley won the AEW World Title by defeating Bryan Danielson at the 2024 AEW WrestleDream PPV. The belief is that this was Danielson’s final appearance as a full-time wrestler, with an injury angle occurring after the match.
Danielson discussed his health with his wife Brie on The Nikki & Brie Show:
“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.”
Danielson also mentioned 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.”
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(quotes courtesy of Jeremy Lambert)
