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Another interesting interview about Bryan's road to recovery
Bleacher Report: Wrestling fans rarely agree about anything. But I think, to a fan, everyone believes it's pretty great to have you back. Are you as excited as we are?
Daniel Bryan: I'm so excited (laughs). You know, I don't remember being this excited in a very, very long time. There's nothing I love more than getting in the ring and wrestling. And it's been a long, long eight months being out. I can't wait to come back.
B/R: I remember hearing you were going to be out for a couple of months. And then all of the sudden, a couple of months turned into eight months and even rumors you'd never return at all. It sounds like quite a journey. Can you walk me through how we ended up where we are today, with you returning to SmackDown this Thursday?
Bryan: It actually happened in the summer of 2013. I was in a match with Randy Orton and did a suicide dive out of the ring and missed. My head hit the guardrail, and I felt a shooting pain go down my arm.
But I thought, "Ah, I'm not really worried about it." Later in that match, though, I did a dropkick off the top rope, and when I landed, I literally couldn't feel my arms, and I couldn't get up. It's what's called a stinger, and after that match, they had me go and get MRIs, and I had a bulging disc in my neck.
That's not unusual for wrestlers, but what was happening is that it was closing the space around the nerves in my neck, which was sending shooting pains down my arm.
B/R: That wasn't enough to stop you. I think we all remember your path to glory at WrestleMania 30. Was there something that made you reconsider just working through it?
Bryan: Around May of 2014, after all the WrestleMania stuff, all of the sudden it went from shooting pain down my arm to weakness. When that happens, that's when you need to fix it right away, or it could be permanent.
B/R: You're a professional athlete. What constitutes weakness?
Bryan: Like, it was so weakBrie and I don't have automatic locks. We actually have to turn the key in the car to open it. And I was so weak I couldn't even unlock the car door.
B/R: Wow.
Bryan: Yeah. And that's when they said, "No, you need to go get surgery now so that this doesn't get any worse. So I went to get the surgery and they were expecting only a six- to eight-week recovery. But the strength just wasn't coming back.
The theory was the nerve had been crushed for so long it might not come back. So we were trying all these different things. There's a nerve that runs from your neck all the way down to the end of your hand. So there was talk of a second surgery on my neck, there was talk of a surgery on my arm, on my elbow.
There was just so much weakness and sometimes this shooting pain. But the doctors really couldn't agree on what to do. I was set to do the elbow surgery because we couldn't think of anything else to do.
B/R: Obviously that didn't happen. What did?
Bryan: I saw a naturopath who works with Carson Palmer, a quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals who was having a horrible shoulder problem. He could barely even pick up a football. Then, all of a sudden, he was able to play.
That's because he saw this guy in Denver who does something called "Muscle Activation Technique." And so I went and saw that guy, and for the first time in months, after just one visit, I had strength in my arm.
B/R: That was all it took?
Bryan: It only lasted about five days. But then I went and saw him a second time, and it's lasted all the way until now. It's been very interesting, very confusing, very frustrating. But the last month has been very hopeful.
I was at this point where I wondered "Man, is this ever going to get better?" I was actually facing the fact that I might not be able to come back to wrestling. And then it's almost like a miracle healing. And that's been pretty exciting to me.
B/R: What do you think it is about professional wrestling that makes guys so susceptible to injury just as they finally reach the pinnacle of success? I think of Paul Orndorff, just as he gets his big chance against Hulk Hogan in 1986. Of Stone Cold Steve Austin as he prepared for his run on top in 1997. For you it was in 2013, right in the middle of your greatest run. What is it about rising to the top that is so fraught with danger?
Bryan: You know what? I've actually never thought about it like that. But that's interesting. And I think it's because you have to work so hard to get to the top.
I trained with Shawn Michaels, and I started when I was 18 down in San Antonio, Texas. And one of the things that Shawn told me was that it's much easier once you actually get to the top than it is to get there. Because you have to work so hard to get the fans to appreciate you. To cheer you or to boo you.
In working that hard, a lot of times that's where the injuries come. When you get to the top, you still have to work hard. But you don't have to constantly prove to the fans that you can be a top star.
B/R: You went to Denver and have been given a second life in your wrestling career. But I assume you can't just waltz back into the ring and be Daniel Bryan. What have you done to prepare your body for being a professional wrestler again?
Bryan: I've been doing a lot of jiu-jitsu and kickboxing. To me, that's what transfers over best to wrestling. Because what we do is a lot of up and down, right? It's a lot of falling, it's a lot of getting up. It's a lot of jumping.
But there is a saying that goes a little something like this: "Nothing prepares you for wrestling like wrestling." If you get on a treadmill and say, "Oh, I can run 20 minutes and 10 miles per hour," that's not the same as going out and doing an eight-minute match.
B/R: Any chance you were working with another certain pro wrestler with similar interests? Or was this down in Phoenix?
Bryan: I was working at the MMA Lab out in Phoenix. And I was doing that before I was even healing. This was kind of my thought process: "Maybe even if my strength doesn't come back, maybe I can still come back and do things that don't require my right arm."
B/R: (Laughs)
Bryan: Right? So I was working on this file of stuff I could do. Because normally, I don't pick people up anyway in my style of wrestling.
To me, wrestling is the ultimate martial art. If you focus on the art part of martial arts, it's a very artistic expression of combat. How can I express myself in this creative fashion where it's still believable, where the fans would still enjoy it, without using my right arm? It's almost like a fun problem to try to explore.
B/R: It's a fun problem you're glad you don't have to solve anymore.
Bryan: Obviously, I'm thrilled I can use my right arm again. (Laughs).
Perhaps a thing of the past?
B/R: Do you think you will mitigate some of the risks now? Will you eliminate some of the daredevil things you do, like the diving headbutt or missile dropkick off the top rope? Or do you think we'll see the same Daniel Bryan?
Bryan: It's hard for me to say. It's all going to depend on how my body feels.
This has happened to me before when I was on the independents. I would go awayI wouldn't get hurt or anythingbut I'd go England for six months. And in that time period, I would be changing my style.
So, I've been home for eight months, watching WWE TV and seeing what I need to do to make myself better and make myself different than anyone else.
B/R: A change was coming, regardless of physical limitations?
Bryan: My style was going to change anyway. But it's true, I'll be asking myself, "Do I need to do the top-rope dropkick and all that stuff every night?" (Laughs). Probably not. It's hard, though, because I think that's exciting.
But there are other exciting things I could do that won't put as much pressure on my neck. I've been doing exercises to strengthen my neck, but I won't really know how it's going to feel until I get in there and do it.
B/R: I would imagine you take some comfort in having a regular opponent like Kane for your first match back Thursday on SmackDown. Or is it difficult because you've had so many matches it might be hard to give people something fresh?
Bryan: I'm not worried about that. Especially now. I might worry about that in three or four months. But my brain works in wrestling. That's how my brain thinks. It's frustrating being at home, because that's how I creatively express myself.
I've been coming up with wrestling ideas my entire adult life. And I've been doing that for the last eight months, tooI just haven't been able to do any of them.
So, no. I'm not worried about running out of ideas and doing the same old stuff. Because it's not going to be the same old stuff. I'm not going to be the same old Daniel Bryan. I'm going to be a different Daniel Bryan. A Daniel Bryan better suited to what's going on in the WWE right now to make things more exciting and different.
B/R: Finally, they are building this entire campaign around you. Launching SmackDown's move to Thursday on the strength of your return. How does it feel to come back after all this time and still be right at the top? That has to be a good feeling?
Bryan: It's pretty crazy to me, this whole thing with the "Yes Movement." A lot of it is just luck. Why did the people choose me? As opposed to choosing Cesaro, or choosing Dolph [Ziggler], or any number of the great superstars we have in WWE?
For some reason, they specifically got behind me. And they've been with me for this entire time. Even during this time off.
B/R: They didn't forget about you.
Bryan: They're constantly reminded of me. That's different than when someone like Sheamus is out with an injury. When someone else is out, there's just not any mention of them.
It helps that my wife is with WWE. When Brie comes out, a lot of times she'll get "Yes" chants. And so they are reminded of me. When The Authority comes out, people are reminded about what they did to me. That's helped keeping my name out there.
A lot of that is just luck and our fans being awesome. There are a lot of guys who have been top guys and don't acknowledge the luck factor. (Laughs).
B/R: But sometimes success really is beyond your control?
Bryan: It takes a spark. It takes something that captures the fans' imaginations. And if I knew what that was, everybody would have it. But I don't know what it is! (Laughs).
I can't explain it. If I could, I would tell everybody, everybody would be super popular, and the whole thing would be through the roof. It doesn't happen like that, though. It's every bit as big a mystery to me as it is to people who look at me and wonder, "Why in the world are people supporting this guy? He looks like a goat."
I'm not big. I'm not this. I'm not that. There must be something relatable about me that the fans enjoy. That's one of the things I love about this. They have their own voice. As much as you want to tell them what to think and how to react, you can't.
I main evented WrestleMania 30, not because I was chosen to. It's because the fans would accept nothing else. And there's nowhere else, in entertainment or in sport, where the fans have that kind of voice. To me, that is very powerful.
Source: BleacherReport
Bleacher Report: Wrestling fans rarely agree about anything. But I think, to a fan, everyone believes it's pretty great to have you back. Are you as excited as we are?
Daniel Bryan: I'm so excited (laughs). You know, I don't remember being this excited in a very, very long time. There's nothing I love more than getting in the ring and wrestling. And it's been a long, long eight months being out. I can't wait to come back.
B/R: I remember hearing you were going to be out for a couple of months. And then all of the sudden, a couple of months turned into eight months and even rumors you'd never return at all. It sounds like quite a journey. Can you walk me through how we ended up where we are today, with you returning to SmackDown this Thursday?
Bryan: It actually happened in the summer of 2013. I was in a match with Randy Orton and did a suicide dive out of the ring and missed. My head hit the guardrail, and I felt a shooting pain go down my arm.
But I thought, "Ah, I'm not really worried about it." Later in that match, though, I did a dropkick off the top rope, and when I landed, I literally couldn't feel my arms, and I couldn't get up. It's what's called a stinger, and after that match, they had me go and get MRIs, and I had a bulging disc in my neck.
That's not unusual for wrestlers, but what was happening is that it was closing the space around the nerves in my neck, which was sending shooting pains down my arm.
B/R: That wasn't enough to stop you. I think we all remember your path to glory at WrestleMania 30. Was there something that made you reconsider just working through it?
Bryan: Around May of 2014, after all the WrestleMania stuff, all of the sudden it went from shooting pain down my arm to weakness. When that happens, that's when you need to fix it right away, or it could be permanent.
B/R: You're a professional athlete. What constitutes weakness?
Bryan: Like, it was so weakBrie and I don't have automatic locks. We actually have to turn the key in the car to open it. And I was so weak I couldn't even unlock the car door.
B/R: Wow.
Bryan: Yeah. And that's when they said, "No, you need to go get surgery now so that this doesn't get any worse. So I went to get the surgery and they were expecting only a six- to eight-week recovery. But the strength just wasn't coming back.
The theory was the nerve had been crushed for so long it might not come back. So we were trying all these different things. There's a nerve that runs from your neck all the way down to the end of your hand. So there was talk of a second surgery on my neck, there was talk of a surgery on my arm, on my elbow.
There was just so much weakness and sometimes this shooting pain. But the doctors really couldn't agree on what to do. I was set to do the elbow surgery because we couldn't think of anything else to do.
B/R: Obviously that didn't happen. What did?
Bryan: I saw a naturopath who works with Carson Palmer, a quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals who was having a horrible shoulder problem. He could barely even pick up a football. Then, all of a sudden, he was able to play.
That's because he saw this guy in Denver who does something called "Muscle Activation Technique." And so I went and saw that guy, and for the first time in months, after just one visit, I had strength in my arm.
B/R: That was all it took?
Bryan: It only lasted about five days. But then I went and saw him a second time, and it's lasted all the way until now. It's been very interesting, very confusing, very frustrating. But the last month has been very hopeful.
I was at this point where I wondered "Man, is this ever going to get better?" I was actually facing the fact that I might not be able to come back to wrestling. And then it's almost like a miracle healing. And that's been pretty exciting to me.
B/R: What do you think it is about professional wrestling that makes guys so susceptible to injury just as they finally reach the pinnacle of success? I think of Paul Orndorff, just as he gets his big chance against Hulk Hogan in 1986. Of Stone Cold Steve Austin as he prepared for his run on top in 1997. For you it was in 2013, right in the middle of your greatest run. What is it about rising to the top that is so fraught with danger?
Bryan: You know what? I've actually never thought about it like that. But that's interesting. And I think it's because you have to work so hard to get to the top.
I trained with Shawn Michaels, and I started when I was 18 down in San Antonio, Texas. And one of the things that Shawn told me was that it's much easier once you actually get to the top than it is to get there. Because you have to work so hard to get the fans to appreciate you. To cheer you or to boo you.
In working that hard, a lot of times that's where the injuries come. When you get to the top, you still have to work hard. But you don't have to constantly prove to the fans that you can be a top star.
B/R: You went to Denver and have been given a second life in your wrestling career. But I assume you can't just waltz back into the ring and be Daniel Bryan. What have you done to prepare your body for being a professional wrestler again?
Bryan: I've been doing a lot of jiu-jitsu and kickboxing. To me, that's what transfers over best to wrestling. Because what we do is a lot of up and down, right? It's a lot of falling, it's a lot of getting up. It's a lot of jumping.
But there is a saying that goes a little something like this: "Nothing prepares you for wrestling like wrestling." If you get on a treadmill and say, "Oh, I can run 20 minutes and 10 miles per hour," that's not the same as going out and doing an eight-minute match.
B/R: Any chance you were working with another certain pro wrestler with similar interests? Or was this down in Phoenix?
Bryan: I was working at the MMA Lab out in Phoenix. And I was doing that before I was even healing. This was kind of my thought process: "Maybe even if my strength doesn't come back, maybe I can still come back and do things that don't require my right arm."
B/R: (Laughs)
Bryan: Right? So I was working on this file of stuff I could do. Because normally, I don't pick people up anyway in my style of wrestling.
To me, wrestling is the ultimate martial art. If you focus on the art part of martial arts, it's a very artistic expression of combat. How can I express myself in this creative fashion where it's still believable, where the fans would still enjoy it, without using my right arm? It's almost like a fun problem to try to explore.
B/R: It's a fun problem you're glad you don't have to solve anymore.
Bryan: Obviously, I'm thrilled I can use my right arm again. (Laughs).
Perhaps a thing of the past?
B/R: Do you think you will mitigate some of the risks now? Will you eliminate some of the daredevil things you do, like the diving headbutt or missile dropkick off the top rope? Or do you think we'll see the same Daniel Bryan?
Bryan: It's hard for me to say. It's all going to depend on how my body feels.
This has happened to me before when I was on the independents. I would go awayI wouldn't get hurt or anythingbut I'd go England for six months. And in that time period, I would be changing my style.
So, I've been home for eight months, watching WWE TV and seeing what I need to do to make myself better and make myself different than anyone else.
B/R: A change was coming, regardless of physical limitations?
Bryan: My style was going to change anyway. But it's true, I'll be asking myself, "Do I need to do the top-rope dropkick and all that stuff every night?" (Laughs). Probably not. It's hard, though, because I think that's exciting.
But there are other exciting things I could do that won't put as much pressure on my neck. I've been doing exercises to strengthen my neck, but I won't really know how it's going to feel until I get in there and do it.
B/R: I would imagine you take some comfort in having a regular opponent like Kane for your first match back Thursday on SmackDown. Or is it difficult because you've had so many matches it might be hard to give people something fresh?
Bryan: I'm not worried about that. Especially now. I might worry about that in three or four months. But my brain works in wrestling. That's how my brain thinks. It's frustrating being at home, because that's how I creatively express myself.
I've been coming up with wrestling ideas my entire adult life. And I've been doing that for the last eight months, tooI just haven't been able to do any of them.
So, no. I'm not worried about running out of ideas and doing the same old stuff. Because it's not going to be the same old stuff. I'm not going to be the same old Daniel Bryan. I'm going to be a different Daniel Bryan. A Daniel Bryan better suited to what's going on in the WWE right now to make things more exciting and different.
B/R: Finally, they are building this entire campaign around you. Launching SmackDown's move to Thursday on the strength of your return. How does it feel to come back after all this time and still be right at the top? That has to be a good feeling?
Bryan: It's pretty crazy to me, this whole thing with the "Yes Movement." A lot of it is just luck. Why did the people choose me? As opposed to choosing Cesaro, or choosing Dolph [Ziggler], or any number of the great superstars we have in WWE?
For some reason, they specifically got behind me. And they've been with me for this entire time. Even during this time off.
B/R: They didn't forget about you.
Bryan: They're constantly reminded of me. That's different than when someone like Sheamus is out with an injury. When someone else is out, there's just not any mention of them.
It helps that my wife is with WWE. When Brie comes out, a lot of times she'll get "Yes" chants. And so they are reminded of me. When The Authority comes out, people are reminded about what they did to me. That's helped keeping my name out there.
A lot of that is just luck and our fans being awesome. There are a lot of guys who have been top guys and don't acknowledge the luck factor. (Laughs).
B/R: But sometimes success really is beyond your control?
Bryan: It takes a spark. It takes something that captures the fans' imaginations. And if I knew what that was, everybody would have it. But I don't know what it is! (Laughs).
I can't explain it. If I could, I would tell everybody, everybody would be super popular, and the whole thing would be through the roof. It doesn't happen like that, though. It's every bit as big a mystery to me as it is to people who look at me and wonder, "Why in the world are people supporting this guy? He looks like a goat."
I'm not big. I'm not this. I'm not that. There must be something relatable about me that the fans enjoy. That's one of the things I love about this. They have their own voice. As much as you want to tell them what to think and how to react, you can't.
I main evented WrestleMania 30, not because I was chosen to. It's because the fans would accept nothing else. And there's nowhere else, in entertainment or in sport, where the fans have that kind of voice. To me, that is very powerful.
Source: BleacherReport
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Also if you read that CraveOnline interview with Daniel Bryan, apparently a DVD seems to be in the works for him.
Bryan's life story could be the Ultimate DVD especially since that network special only scratched the surface IMO.
Bryan's life story could be the Ultimate DVD especially since that network special only scratched the surface IMO.
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Another awesome spot from that 6 man tag: http://gfycat.com/ChubbyCluelessItaliangreyhound
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It was The Genius's idea for Hogan to induct The Macho Man. I'm happy to see Savage go in the Hall Of Fame, but of course McMahon never respected his family. They should've honored Savage's wish.
Oh...YEAH!
Oh...YEAH!
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Happy to see Savage go in the Hall Of Fame, but of course McMahon never respected his family (they should've honored Savage's wish). It was The Genius's idea for Hogan to induct The Macho Man.
Oh...YEAH!
Agreed.
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Bryan had a bit of a media blitz yesterday and here is yet another interview except from the site that runs this place:
CraveOnline: We’re glad that you’re back. When did you get the news that you were finally cleared and how did you keep it a secret until Monday Night RAW a couple of weeks ago?
Daniel Bryan: Okay, so I actually did not get cleared until that RAW [laughs] so that’s how I was able to keep it secret … Nobody was really keeping a secret but what they weren’t really telling anybody was when I started getting better. I started getting better in November. I started going to a guy in Denver who does Muscle Activation Technique. He worked with Carson Palmer of the Arizona Cardinals and got Carson Palmer from the point where he was hardly able to pick up a football at the beginning of the season to where he was playing. That’s incredible.
The first time I went I saw a lot of improvements and flew out there a second time, and the second time, it was like “Oh my Gosh! What’s going on right now?” It seemed like a miracle healing [laughs]. I was frustrated for a long time. For a long time there weren’t any improvements. Once I started doing that, things started getting better real quick.
CraveOnline: SmackDown is moving to Thursdays and you’ll be having your first match in 8 months this week on the show, which makes it a must see. What does it mean to you to finally have this match on SmackDown? Are you psyched or nervous?
Daniel Bryan: I’m a little bit of both. You know, I love wrestling. Wrestling to me is pretty much the most fun thing in the world. You give me the opportunity to go on vacation to Hawaii or do a match in front of a rabid crowd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and pretty much, I’m going to pick doing the match in front of a rabid crowd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana [laughs]. I’m excited because that’s my passion and it’s what I love to do.
But I’m also, a little bit nervous. It’s hard not to be when you haven’t been in a wrestling match in eight months [laughs] and especially when you’re expected to be very physical. This is the first time I’m really testing it, really going out and testing my neck and seeing how it’s going to be. So it’s a combination of both but I’m excited that I’m coming back when SmackDown moves to Thursday. I have a lot of big plans in 2015 and a lot of them involve SmackDown.
CraveOnline:Will we see any tweaks to your in-ring style coming off surgery?
Daniel Bryan: There will be but it’s not necessarily because of my neck. So every time in the past in my wrestling career when I was on the independents and what not, if I would leave an area for an extended period of time and predominantly the independents would work with Ring of Honor and so there’d be times I’d go to England for six months but when I came back to Ring of Honor, I would have a slightly different style.
To me, this whole thing is an art, right? If you look at the most artsy of all martial arts and I love martial arts. It’s a very creative expression of what we do and you can’t just be going out there doing the same thing all the time. People do, do that and that’s okay but to me, it’s a continuing expression of my creativity and so it also, has to evolve. Regardless of what my neck feels like, watching WWE this whole eight months I’ve been off, I’ve realized “Okay I need to do this differently and I need to do this differently.” I think the fans would enjoy this more because they see a lot of this and they’re not seeing a lot of this. So my style will change but will it make it any easier on my neck? I have no idea [laughs].
Favorite memory
CraveOnline: What is your most memorable moment of SmackDown?
Daniel Bryan: Oh my Gosh! One of my favorite matches I did on SmackDown was actually with Mark Henry. It was during this time period where I was the Money In The Bank holder and Mark Henry was the World Heavyweight Champion and I hadn’t really been given an opportunity to main event anything at that point. We were main eventing a SmackDown that was a special on Tuesday and it was airing live and Mark and I did a steel cage match and it was that first time I got to main event SmackDown. Even though I lost, the match was really good, the crowd got behind me and they gave me this confidence that like “Hey the company doesn’t necessarily see me as a main eventer but I just got to main event SmackDown but I did a really good job and the crowd was with it. So that gave me the confidence to be like “There’s no reason I can’t be doing this nearly every week.”
CraveOnline: NXT has garnered a lot of praise lately with a lot of independent stars landing in WWE. Do the indie guys look at you as a trailblazer who made it possible for them to succeed in WWE after great indie careers? Do they come to you for advice?
Daniel Bryan: They don’t necessarily come to me for advice. A lot of them are my friends. I’m friends with Sammy Zayn, friends with Finn Balor, I’m friends with Hideo Itami. It’s hard for me to remember. It’s weird when you meet people and they’re one name and then you go to WWE and they’re a different name. My friends were confused on what to call me when I came to WWE and I was no longer Bryan Danielson and now I’m Daniel Bryan. Like Hideo Itami, I wrestled him in Japan as Kenta and they don’t necessarily come to me for advice but we just talk. We just talk about “Hey, what do I need to do from where I’m at now to get to where I’ve been and back up to the main roster” and the steps for that sort of thing. It’s interesting because I can give people what I think but I can’t give people a road map. I don’t know how I got here myself. A lot of it is just luck [laughs]. For some reason, the fans got behind me and I don’t know exactly why that is. I wasn’t supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I’ve had a lot of lucky breaks.
There are so many good guys who I have wrestled on the independents who are down there and are now up on WWE TV. You have Seth Rollins, you have Dean Ambrose, you have Cesaro all those guys I wrestled on the independents and down in NXT, you got the Finn Balors, the Sammy Zayns, Kevin Owens, and the Hideo Itamis. You can see that these guys are different and that these guys are awesome and would make great additions to the WWE roster.
“I want Brock Lesnar”
CraveOnline: You declared your intentions of winning the Royal Rumble, who would you like to face for the championship at WrestleMania?
Daniel Bryan: I want Brock Lesnar. It’s funny. Ever since I got my surgery and even before that, if somebody said “Hey, who would you want to wrestle if you were to main event at WrestleMania 31?” I’ve always said “I want to wrestle Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.” That is my dream match for WrestleMania 31 and it’s because Brock is the ultimate monster. He’s legitimately a beast and I’m the ultimate underdog. I think it would be a great story but I also, think it would probably be the most physical match you’ve seen in WWE history. We could do something special and something great. That’s the match I want and I think it’s the match the fans want to.
DVD on the way
CraveOnline: You’ve had an epic career so far. Are there any plans for a Daniel Bryan DVD that you can speak of?
Daniel Bryan: You know what, I think there actually is. I’m actually supposed to be doing..I don’t even know if I can say this. They tell me things but they don’t tell me what I can tell you guys but what I can’t tell you guys. [Confirmed later there will be a Daniel Bryan DVD]
The game-changer
CraveOnline: Can you tell us about the influence of William Regal in your career?
Daniel Bryan: William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career. When I first started wrestling, I was training with Shawn Michaels. I thought that I had to be a high flyer because of my size and all that kind of stuff but what happened was within a span of three months, I got three concussions in a row and it was pretty serious. I had a second-degree separation in my shoulder trying to jump off an 18 ft. ladder that was in the ring to the floor and hurt myself there.
I had already been signed to a WWE developmental deal in 2000 and they moved us to Memphis because that’s where their developmental system was and that’s where William Regal was and I always loved technical wrestling; the Dean Malenkos of the wrestling world. Shawn is a great wrestler but he was never necessarily ‘that guy’ but William Regal is ‘that guy.’ He knows an unbelievable amount about technical wrestling. His mindset about wrestling is very similar to mine so we clicked right away as far as him being my mentor and everything like that. Also, our personalities are very similar. Even after I got fired from WWE in 2001, Regal kept in touch with me the entire time. He’d ask me “Hey, I heard about this match you did, can you send me a tape?” and we’d talk about it and he’d be like “What you did here was really great but this here I think needs a little bit of tweaking or this needs work.” He helped me get into England for the first time so if anybody is a fan of the stuff I did with Kane or Team Hell No, the comedy stuff, a lot of that came from wrestling in England for six months where I was doing almost exclusively comedy wrestling.
Regal was the one who told me to do that and to embrace it and said “there are times you’re hurt but you still need to be able to go out there and entertain and if you can learn how to do that, you can do anything.” He’s been an invaluable influence. It would literally take us probably an hour for me to tell you all the things William Regal has meant to me.
Married life
CraveOnline: This one comes from my wife, who’s an avid watcher of Total Divas. With you and your wife Bree being on the road a lot with such hectic schedules, what is the ideal ‘date night’ for you guys?
Daniel Bryan: Literally what we love to do on the date night we’re at home…so you also, have to keep in mind we have very strict diets [laughs] so as a couple it makes it a little bit less fun when you have very strict diets but what makes it more fun is on the days you are cheating on your diets. One of the things we love to do, because we’re on the road so much, for us, a great night at home is ordering in some pizza, renting a movie, and having our little French bulldog Josie between us and just relaxing and eating a bunch of pizza and maybe some cookie dough or some gelato [laughs] .
CraveOnline: You’re definitely a married couple now.
Daniel Bryan: [Laughs] Absolutely!
Repeat for the ‘Hawks?
CraveOnline: We know you’re a massive Seahawks fan. Do you think they’re going back-to-back and do you have any ‘fan superstitions?’
Daniel Bryan: It’s funny. For years, this goes back to the mid-90s. Every year, I tell everybody the Seahawks are winning the Super Bowl. Even when they end up the season 2-14 or something like that, until they are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, I will always say “The Seahawks are winning the Super Bowl this year.” This is the first time in my entire life that I have not said that because I don’t want to jinx them [laughs]. Because last year they actually won and now people are like “Oh my Gosh, they may repeat.” I think there’s a very good chance. Anything can happen in the NFL. But I think they’re playing better than any team in the league and I’m rooting for them very, very, very, very, very hard.
Beard maintenance
CraveOnline: Your beard has reached gnarly proportions. Do you have any grooming tips for us men trying to grow a beard like that?
Daniel Bryan: If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow. I’m not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair. I don’t know if you pay attention to beard competitions but what they do is beards are judged in follicles per square inch which is a weird thing to even talk about. I’m not ranked very highly in the follicles per square inch but it’s just guts, determination, and letting it look awful for a long period of time until it gets to the point of “Oh! That is a real beard” so for a long time it did not look like a real beard. It’s just patience of letting it grow out and also, being in a relationship with somebody who lets you go through that stage where it looks awful.
CraveOnline:I can’t believe creative let you do that. It’s pretty awesome!
Daniel Bryan: The whole thing is funny because nobody said anything to me about it. I just started doing it and so then my beard started getting kind of long and then people didn’t realize until after it was already long because it was not like I was doing a whole lot. I think at the time I was doing a thing with Kane and Team Hell No so I wasn’t like a huge part of the show and all of a sudden my beard was getting longer, longer, and longer. Then one of the awesome things to is that people didn’t realize I was growing my hair out either because they were so focused on the beard. So now I got this whole long hair and long beard and people are thinking “where did this even come from?”
What’s next?
CraveOnline: What can the WWE Universe expect from Daniel Bryan in 2015?
Daniel Bryan: I think they can expect the best Daniel Bryan they have ever seen. I think some people may be thinking that I’ll come back and my style is going to be different because I had a neck injury and that sort of thing. My style will be different but it won’t be because of the neck injury. I think I’m going to come back better than ever and more excited than ever and I have some fun things in store for the WWE Universe so its going to be a great 2015.
CraveOnline: We’re glad that you’re back. When did you get the news that you were finally cleared and how did you keep it a secret until Monday Night RAW a couple of weeks ago?
Daniel Bryan: Okay, so I actually did not get cleared until that RAW [laughs] so that’s how I was able to keep it secret … Nobody was really keeping a secret but what they weren’t really telling anybody was when I started getting better. I started getting better in November. I started going to a guy in Denver who does Muscle Activation Technique. He worked with Carson Palmer of the Arizona Cardinals and got Carson Palmer from the point where he was hardly able to pick up a football at the beginning of the season to where he was playing. That’s incredible.
The first time I went I saw a lot of improvements and flew out there a second time, and the second time, it was like “Oh my Gosh! What’s going on right now?” It seemed like a miracle healing [laughs]. I was frustrated for a long time. For a long time there weren’t any improvements. Once I started doing that, things started getting better real quick.
CraveOnline: SmackDown is moving to Thursdays and you’ll be having your first match in 8 months this week on the show, which makes it a must see. What does it mean to you to finally have this match on SmackDown? Are you psyched or nervous?
Daniel Bryan: I’m a little bit of both. You know, I love wrestling. Wrestling to me is pretty much the most fun thing in the world. You give me the opportunity to go on vacation to Hawaii or do a match in front of a rabid crowd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and pretty much, I’m going to pick doing the match in front of a rabid crowd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana [laughs]. I’m excited because that’s my passion and it’s what I love to do.
But I’m also, a little bit nervous. It’s hard not to be when you haven’t been in a wrestling match in eight months [laughs] and especially when you’re expected to be very physical. This is the first time I’m really testing it, really going out and testing my neck and seeing how it’s going to be. So it’s a combination of both but I’m excited that I’m coming back when SmackDown moves to Thursday. I have a lot of big plans in 2015 and a lot of them involve SmackDown.
CraveOnline:Will we see any tweaks to your in-ring style coming off surgery?
Daniel Bryan: There will be but it’s not necessarily because of my neck. So every time in the past in my wrestling career when I was on the independents and what not, if I would leave an area for an extended period of time and predominantly the independents would work with Ring of Honor and so there’d be times I’d go to England for six months but when I came back to Ring of Honor, I would have a slightly different style.
To me, this whole thing is an art, right? If you look at the most artsy of all martial arts and I love martial arts. It’s a very creative expression of what we do and you can’t just be going out there doing the same thing all the time. People do, do that and that’s okay but to me, it’s a continuing expression of my creativity and so it also, has to evolve. Regardless of what my neck feels like, watching WWE this whole eight months I’ve been off, I’ve realized “Okay I need to do this differently and I need to do this differently.” I think the fans would enjoy this more because they see a lot of this and they’re not seeing a lot of this. So my style will change but will it make it any easier on my neck? I have no idea [laughs].
Favorite memory
CraveOnline: What is your most memorable moment of SmackDown?
Daniel Bryan: Oh my Gosh! One of my favorite matches I did on SmackDown was actually with Mark Henry. It was during this time period where I was the Money In The Bank holder and Mark Henry was the World Heavyweight Champion and I hadn’t really been given an opportunity to main event anything at that point. We were main eventing a SmackDown that was a special on Tuesday and it was airing live and Mark and I did a steel cage match and it was that first time I got to main event SmackDown. Even though I lost, the match was really good, the crowd got behind me and they gave me this confidence that like “Hey the company doesn’t necessarily see me as a main eventer but I just got to main event SmackDown but I did a really good job and the crowd was with it. So that gave me the confidence to be like “There’s no reason I can’t be doing this nearly every week.”
CraveOnline: NXT has garnered a lot of praise lately with a lot of independent stars landing in WWE. Do the indie guys look at you as a trailblazer who made it possible for them to succeed in WWE after great indie careers? Do they come to you for advice?
Daniel Bryan: They don’t necessarily come to me for advice. A lot of them are my friends. I’m friends with Sammy Zayn, friends with Finn Balor, I’m friends with Hideo Itami. It’s hard for me to remember. It’s weird when you meet people and they’re one name and then you go to WWE and they’re a different name. My friends were confused on what to call me when I came to WWE and I was no longer Bryan Danielson and now I’m Daniel Bryan. Like Hideo Itami, I wrestled him in Japan as Kenta and they don’t necessarily come to me for advice but we just talk. We just talk about “Hey, what do I need to do from where I’m at now to get to where I’ve been and back up to the main roster” and the steps for that sort of thing. It’s interesting because I can give people what I think but I can’t give people a road map. I don’t know how I got here myself. A lot of it is just luck [laughs]. For some reason, the fans got behind me and I don’t know exactly why that is. I wasn’t supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I’ve had a lot of lucky breaks.
There are so many good guys who I have wrestled on the independents who are down there and are now up on WWE TV. You have Seth Rollins, you have Dean Ambrose, you have Cesaro all those guys I wrestled on the independents and down in NXT, you got the Finn Balors, the Sammy Zayns, Kevin Owens, and the Hideo Itamis. You can see that these guys are different and that these guys are awesome and would make great additions to the WWE roster.
“I want Brock Lesnar”
CraveOnline: You declared your intentions of winning the Royal Rumble, who would you like to face for the championship at WrestleMania?
Daniel Bryan: I want Brock Lesnar. It’s funny. Ever since I got my surgery and even before that, if somebody said “Hey, who would you want to wrestle if you were to main event at WrestleMania 31?” I’ve always said “I want to wrestle Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.” That is my dream match for WrestleMania 31 and it’s because Brock is the ultimate monster. He’s legitimately a beast and I’m the ultimate underdog. I think it would be a great story but I also, think it would probably be the most physical match you’ve seen in WWE history. We could do something special and something great. That’s the match I want and I think it’s the match the fans want to.
DVD on the way
CraveOnline: You’ve had an epic career so far. Are there any plans for a Daniel Bryan DVD that you can speak of?
Daniel Bryan: You know what, I think there actually is. I’m actually supposed to be doing..I don’t even know if I can say this. They tell me things but they don’t tell me what I can tell you guys but what I can’t tell you guys. [Confirmed later there will be a Daniel Bryan DVD]
The game-changer
CraveOnline: Can you tell us about the influence of William Regal in your career?
Daniel Bryan: William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career. When I first started wrestling, I was training with Shawn Michaels. I thought that I had to be a high flyer because of my size and all that kind of stuff but what happened was within a span of three months, I got three concussions in a row and it was pretty serious. I had a second-degree separation in my shoulder trying to jump off an 18 ft. ladder that was in the ring to the floor and hurt myself there.
I had already been signed to a WWE developmental deal in 2000 and they moved us to Memphis because that’s where their developmental system was and that’s where William Regal was and I always loved technical wrestling; the Dean Malenkos of the wrestling world. Shawn is a great wrestler but he was never necessarily ‘that guy’ but William Regal is ‘that guy.’ He knows an unbelievable amount about technical wrestling. His mindset about wrestling is very similar to mine so we clicked right away as far as him being my mentor and everything like that. Also, our personalities are very similar. Even after I got fired from WWE in 2001, Regal kept in touch with me the entire time. He’d ask me “Hey, I heard about this match you did, can you send me a tape?” and we’d talk about it and he’d be like “What you did here was really great but this here I think needs a little bit of tweaking or this needs work.” He helped me get into England for the first time so if anybody is a fan of the stuff I did with Kane or Team Hell No, the comedy stuff, a lot of that came from wrestling in England for six months where I was doing almost exclusively comedy wrestling.
Regal was the one who told me to do that and to embrace it and said “there are times you’re hurt but you still need to be able to go out there and entertain and if you can learn how to do that, you can do anything.” He’s been an invaluable influence. It would literally take us probably an hour for me to tell you all the things William Regal has meant to me.
Married life
CraveOnline: This one comes from my wife, who’s an avid watcher of Total Divas. With you and your wife Bree being on the road a lot with such hectic schedules, what is the ideal ‘date night’ for you guys?
Daniel Bryan: Literally what we love to do on the date night we’re at home…so you also, have to keep in mind we have very strict diets [laughs] so as a couple it makes it a little bit less fun when you have very strict diets but what makes it more fun is on the days you are cheating on your diets. One of the things we love to do, because we’re on the road so much, for us, a great night at home is ordering in some pizza, renting a movie, and having our little French bulldog Josie between us and just relaxing and eating a bunch of pizza and maybe some cookie dough or some gelato [laughs] .
CraveOnline: You’re definitely a married couple now.
Daniel Bryan: [Laughs] Absolutely!
Repeat for the ‘Hawks?
CraveOnline: We know you’re a massive Seahawks fan. Do you think they’re going back-to-back and do you have any ‘fan superstitions?’
Daniel Bryan: It’s funny. For years, this goes back to the mid-90s. Every year, I tell everybody the Seahawks are winning the Super Bowl. Even when they end up the season 2-14 or something like that, until they are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, I will always say “The Seahawks are winning the Super Bowl this year.” This is the first time in my entire life that I have not said that because I don’t want to jinx them [laughs]. Because last year they actually won and now people are like “Oh my Gosh, they may repeat.” I think there’s a very good chance. Anything can happen in the NFL. But I think they’re playing better than any team in the league and I’m rooting for them very, very, very, very, very hard.
Beard maintenance
CraveOnline: Your beard has reached gnarly proportions. Do you have any grooming tips for us men trying to grow a beard like that?
Daniel Bryan: If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow. I’m not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair. I don’t know if you pay attention to beard competitions but what they do is beards are judged in follicles per square inch which is a weird thing to even talk about. I’m not ranked very highly in the follicles per square inch but it’s just guts, determination, and letting it look awful for a long period of time until it gets to the point of “Oh! That is a real beard” so for a long time it did not look like a real beard. It’s just patience of letting it grow out and also, being in a relationship with somebody who lets you go through that stage where it looks awful.
CraveOnline:I can’t believe creative let you do that. It’s pretty awesome!
Daniel Bryan: The whole thing is funny because nobody said anything to me about it. I just started doing it and so then my beard started getting kind of long and then people didn’t realize until after it was already long because it was not like I was doing a whole lot. I think at the time I was doing a thing with Kane and Team Hell No so I wasn’t like a huge part of the show and all of a sudden my beard was getting longer, longer, and longer. Then one of the awesome things to is that people didn’t realize I was growing my hair out either because they were so focused on the beard. So now I got this whole long hair and long beard and people are thinking “where did this even come from?”
What’s next?
CraveOnline: What can the WWE Universe expect from Daniel Bryan in 2015?
Daniel Bryan: I think they can expect the best Daniel Bryan they have ever seen. I think some people may be thinking that I’ll come back and my style is going to be different because I had a neck injury and that sort of thing. My style will be different but it won’t be because of the neck injury. I think I’m going to come back better than ever and more excited than ever and I have some fun things in store for the WWE Universe so its going to be a great 2015.
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Since no ones talking about it, Daniel Bryan has assured me of why I've liked him so much over time, he just comes across as a super nice/relatable down to earth guy and that makes it easy to get behind him as well as want to see him succeed.
I can easily say the same thing about Sami Zayn and when both guys are passionate, they cut promos with so much heart that they have people hanging on their every word.
Honestly, if those two feuded for the belt at some point, it would be the ULTIMATE face vs face match because it would come off as two hardworking relatable guys competing for something that they've had to scratch and claw for. Two guys that had nothing handed to them but were great at what they do.
As long as they are cutting impassioned promos towards one another and downplaying the lighthearted natures of their characters it would be hella compelling.
I can easily say the same thing about Sami Zayn and when both guys are passionate, they cut promos with so much heart that they have people hanging on their every word.
Honestly, if those two feuded for the belt at some point, it would be the ULTIMATE face vs face match because it would come off as two hardworking relatable guys competing for something that they've had to scratch and claw for. Two guys that had nothing handed to them but were great at what they do.
As long as they are cutting impassioned promos towards one another and downplaying the lighthearted natures of their characters it would be hella compelling.
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I'm glad Smackdown is returning to Thursday because more people watch TV on Thursday than Friday. I get the feeling that part of the reason WWE stopped caring about Smackdown was because of the night it airs.
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Fantastic. Seth Rollins is a great wrestler, and can play mental and verbal chess with Paul Heyman on the mike. He really is the future.
- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the following match listing is set for NJPW’s series on AXS TV, which premieres Friday:
January 16
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Wrestle Kingdom 7
January 23
• Okada vs. Hirooki Goto, 2013 New Japan Cup finals
• Shinsuke Nakamura/Tomohiro Ishii/Jado vs. Minoru Suzuki/Lance Archer/Taka Michinoku
January 30
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Invasion Attack 2013
February 6
• Okada vs. Togi Makabe
• Tanahashi vs. Prince Devitt
February 13
• Okada vs. Prince Devitt
• Tanahashi/Makabe/Jushin Liger/Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson/El Terrible/Tama Tonga/Bad Luck Fale
February 20
• Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi
• Satoshi Kojima vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson
February 27
• Tanahashi vs. Tesuya Naito, G1 Climax finals
March 6
• Nakamura vs. Naomichi Marifuji
• Naito vs. Yijiro Takahashi
March 13
• Okada vs. Naito, Wrestle Kingdom 8
March 20
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Wrestle Kingdom 8
March 27
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Invasion Attack 2014
April 3
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Wrestling Dontaku
• Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• The Forever Hooligans vs. The Young Bucks
April 10
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Yokohama Arena
• Takashi Iizuka/Toru Yano vs. Suzuki/Shelton Benjamin
January 16
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Wrestle Kingdom 7
January 23
• Okada vs. Hirooki Goto, 2013 New Japan Cup finals
• Shinsuke Nakamura/Tomohiro Ishii/Jado vs. Minoru Suzuki/Lance Archer/Taka Michinoku
January 30
• Tanahashi vs. Okada, Invasion Attack 2013
February 6
• Okada vs. Togi Makabe
• Tanahashi vs. Prince Devitt
February 13
• Okada vs. Prince Devitt
• Tanahashi/Makabe/Jushin Liger/Captain New Japan vs. Karl Anderson/El Terrible/Tama Tonga/Bad Luck Fale
February 20
• Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi
• Satoshi Kojima vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson
February 27
• Tanahashi vs. Tesuya Naito, G1 Climax finals
March 6
• Nakamura vs. Naomichi Marifuji
• Naito vs. Yijiro Takahashi
March 13
• Okada vs. Naito, Wrestle Kingdom 8
March 20
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Wrestle Kingdom 8
March 27
• Nakamura vs. Tanahashi, Invasion Attack 2014
April 3
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Wrestling Dontaku
• Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
• The Forever Hooligans vs. The Young Bucks
April 10
• Okada vs. AJ Styles, Yokohama Arena
• Takashi Iizuka/Toru Yano vs. Suzuki/Shelton Benjamin
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Sorry, I forgot about the time difference. I won't live-post again.
Can't spoil all those unexpected twists and turns Smackdown is known for, right?
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Sorry, I forgot about the time difference. I won't live-post again.
Can't spoil all those unexpected twists and turns Smackdown is known for, right?
Haha, Ah, don't worry about it. Post away. I don't think it airs here til Friday, anyway.
- The Wrestling Observer reports that Jeff Jarrett and GFW are in talks to bring New Japan Pro Wrestling’s next big event, Invasion Attack, to PPV in North America. The event is scheduled for April 5 at the Sumo Hall.
The negotiations will depend on how PPV sales turned out for the Wrestle Kingdom 9 event. However, the two sides are talking at the moment. Both parties reportedly want Jim Ross and Matt Striker to return as the English commentary team for the event if the deal goes through.
Per the report, Ross and Striker would likely record the commentary for the event in-studio rather than live at the event as it was done for Wrestle Kingdom 9. A domestic recording would save GFW money, and it is unknown if Ross would be willing to take the trip to Tokyo again so quickly. One of Ross’ requests for his deal for Wrestle Kingdom 9 was that he wanted to call the event live at the Tokyo Dome.
The negotiations will depend on how PPV sales turned out for the Wrestle Kingdom 9 event. However, the two sides are talking at the moment. Both parties reportedly want Jim Ross and Matt Striker to return as the English commentary team for the event if the deal goes through.
Per the report, Ross and Striker would likely record the commentary for the event in-studio rather than live at the event as it was done for Wrestle Kingdom 9. A domestic recording would save GFW money, and it is unknown if Ross would be willing to take the trip to Tokyo again so quickly. One of Ross’ requests for his deal for Wrestle Kingdom 9 was that he wanted to call the event live at the Tokyo Dome.
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Though thankfully to my understanding, he only did ONE surgery prior to going to alternative methods despite some rumors making it sound like he did multiple surgeries.
When he does the top rope dive know he should refrain from letting himself crash into the barricade like he did in that Orton match in 2013....where the problem started.
When he does the top rope dive know he should refrain from letting himself crash into the barricade like he did in that Orton match in 2013....where the problem started.
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