AEW star “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson recently spoke with Sports Illustrated on a number of topics including how he would love to compete in this year’s NJPW G1 Climax tournament.
Danielson said, “Over the winter, I told Gedo, the booker in New Japan, ‘I would love to do the G1 this year!’ I’d just wrestled Zack Sabre in Japan [in February]. I was so excited. It all happened in the heat of the moment. I would like to think it would be possible. I don’t limit possibilities in my mind. But it seems unlikely.”
On how his neck isn’t doing real great right now and how it would be okay even though he doesn’t get to compete in the G1:
“My neck isn’t doing real great right now. So there’s my health. But even if Tony [Khan] freed me up for the entire summer and said, ‘Go do the G1,’ I wouldn’t want to leave my wife and kids for that long. I don’t think my wife would think it was good for my health, either. I’ve always wanted to do the G1. I don’t know if that’s going to be in the cards for me, and that’s OK.”
