As noted, WWE star Daniel Bryan participated in a Q&A at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con this week, and you can check out a live recap at this link.
The Chicago Tribune was also on hand for the event, and the following are more quotes from Bryan:
On when he might return to the ring:
“I don’t know,” Bryan said. “I’ve had multiple concussions in my career. And (WWE is) looking out for me, as far as whether or not to allow me to return to the ring. With that said, I’ve been cleared by a neurologist who was the neurologist for the Super Bowl. He’s not an employee for the NFL. He was independently hired for the Super Bowl. His specialty is concussions and brain stuff. He has no problem clearing me without any limitations.
“That said, there is a lot of gray areas when it comes to concussions. That’s the iffy part about all of this. That’s why WWE is being very cautious, much to my chagrin. When will I come back? I don’t know. Will WWE let me come back? I don’t know. I’m training as if I’m coming back. And I feel great right now.”
On CM Punk quitting wrestling:
“It makes me sad, in the sense that I always had this idea in my head that at some point Punk and I would wrestle each other at Wrestlemania,” Bryan said. “But I didn’t know if it would ever happen. It was this idea that I had in my head. It would be our generation’s version of Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. So it made me sad, but you have to understand there’s a flip side to it making me sad. It also was one of the causes of me main eventing Wrestlemania, which I might not have gotten if he didn’t leave. I have these mixed emotions about it.
“One of the things that is hard about the whole thing is that he lost his passion for it. I think he would say that. That’s sad for me and anybody to lose their heart for something they loved for so long, because he loved this in the way I love this. Whenever somebody loses that for whatever reason they lose it for, to me, that’s just sad.”
On potentially wrestling Kurt Angle:
“I would love a match with Kurt Angle,” Bryan said. “I think it would be awesome. There are a lot of things I probably shouldn’t say publicly … There’s this idea that WWE might not allow me to wrestle anymore. But part of me thinks, hey, if they don’t, and I’m not sure they will let Kurt Angle wrestle in WWE just with his history, I thought, well, that might be the only way I get to wrestle Kurt Angle. And that’s not such a bad thing. And I would have a bunch of ideas for that. So yeah, I think it would be awesome.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
