It definitely seems as though Smackdown General Manager Daniel Bryan is going to be making his pro wrestling return very soon. Bryan retired from wrestling in 2016 due to a series of injuries, but his contract is up in 2018, and he has been seriously hinting that he could make his wrestling return by then. It was believed that Daniel Bryan, after suffering from numerous head injuries over the course of his career, was forced into an early retirement by WWE and by doctors. Is his condition actually as severe as some make it out to be? According to Bryan himself, it isn’t. Now Bryan definitely seems focused on returning to the ring.
Daniel Bryan was a guest recently on the E&C Pod of Awesomeness show hosted by Edge and Christian, and he claims that his retirement was brought on by a “huge, huge misunderstanding.” Bryan claimed that he was cleared to return by his own doctors and by doctors that WWE recommended he visit. Despite this, WWE officials have refused to clear him. He revealed that he began visiting Evoke Neuroscience for non-FDA approved testing. It was there where Bryan learned that he had a lesion on his brain. Vince McMahon apparently instructed Bryan to give the WWE audience his farewell speech the following week.
However, Bryan revealed that he was called back by one of the doctors who had cleared him earlier. According to Bryan, “I told him what happened and I said, ‘They found a lesion in the temporal-parietal region of my brain.’ He goes, ‘Wait, hold up, a lesion?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ And I don’t know what lesion means to you guys, a lesion to me means you have a cut. I have a cut on my brain. He goes, ‘No. Lesion, in medical terminology, is a very vague thing. It just means something is there. We don’t know what it is, so we call it a lesion in the temporal-parietal region of your brain.’” Bryan claims that this meant that he has a slower reflex time than most athletes that are tested. Daniel says that he is actually fine when compared to a normal person though.
Bryan also said to Edge and Christian that he did not think much of the revelation at the time. His plan was to stay retired from pro wrestling and to focus on starting a family with his wife Brie Bella. That all changed when he became Smackdown General Manager and watched a match between AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose. He is currently undergoing Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy treatments in order to improved his brain function. Bryan spoke on his treatment by stating, “There’s this vast improvement. And Brie sees the vast improvement. And then Dr. (Barry) Miskin thinks within 120 total treatments, so 80 treatments more, that my brain could get back to where if you looked at it from any other spectrum, you would think that I’d have never done any contact sports in my entire life.”
Interestingly enough, Bryan also said that “there’s no reason why I can’t return to doing what I love” His current plan is to begin wrestling again with a part-time schedule involving about 50-100 matches per year. He has said in the past that he plans to work a safer in-ring style if he does return.
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