Daniel Bryan Talks Concussions, Says WWE Would Love to Have Him Back

Daniel Bryan was interviewed by The Trentonian and said that he’s working to get cleared and that he thinks WWE would love to have him back, but that the current climate around concussions makes it something that WWE probably doesn’t want to risk.

“I’m trying to get cleared as we speak,” Bryan said. “All my tests have come back fantastic, better than people who have never had any concussion-type stuff. But it’s a weird thing. We’re in a weird situation politically with the climate around concussions; right now, it’s very difficult. WWE would love to have me back, but is that the smart thing for me as a business to bring me back? If I was to come back, and they let me back, would they get a lot of flak for it? They have a ton of stockholders that they’re responsible for. It’s more than just, ‘Is he healthy to do it?’

“There’s more than that to the whole situation. All the concussion doctors think that I’m healthy enough to do it, and that I should be able to do it — well, I don’t want to say all of them, I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t think that — but there’s a lot more than goes into it than just that. That’s the unfortunate situation with giant corporations and big business in the United States.”

Daniel Bryan’s contract reportedly expires some time around September 2018 and it has been rumored that he may look to wrestle elsewhere since it looks like it’s not going to happen in WWE.