AEW: Bryan Danielson on Having No Desire to Wrestle Right Now, Swerve Strickland on Bryan Danielson Match at All In 2024 Being Greatest Moment of His Wrestling Career, Killswitch Double Pneumonia Update

Apr 29, 2025

Bryan Danielson Comments on Him Having No Desire to Wrestle Right Now

Bryan Danielson has been absent from AEW since his full-time in-ring retirement match at this past October’s AEW WrestleDream 2024 event. Danielson has yet to undergo neck surgery to repair his neck and has been considering other options instead.

Metro held a recent interview with Danielson. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about him currently having no desire to return to the ring any time soon.

“I have no inclination right now, and no desire to wrestle right now. The last six months of my career built up to that I actually, I look at it now as a blessing. Because the six months leading into my last match were so hard and my neck was so bad. And, I mean, there’s things that I couldn’t physically do, right? When the last match came against, against Moxley, I was ready. And that’s a good place to be, because when I was forced to retire before [in WWE in 2016], I didn’t want to be retired. I kept fighting internally and outwardly to to come back. Now I’m at peace with it. And I don’t know if I would be so at peace if I hadn’t been hurting as bad as I was the last six months.”

Danielson also gave his thoughts about the potential of him wrestling at this year’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door event in London.

“I’m like, 95% chance no. But the reality is that, say you have a big main event and something happens where somebody gets hurt, and Tony says, ‘Hey Bryan, we need you for this thing, is there something you could do?’ Yeah, there’s something I could do. I just have to be careful. But I mean, it’s one of those things where there’s ways to work around it. But you just can’t do it all the time.”

Swerve Strickland Comments on His Match with Bryan Danielson at AEW All In 2024 Being Greatest Moment of His Wrestling Career

Swerve Strickland recently responded on Twitter about how his match against Bryan Danielson for the AEW World Championship at this past August’s All In 2024 event was the greatest moment of his wrestling career.

Strickland’s comments were in response to a recent interview Danielson had with Jamal Niaz about how his AEW World title victory at All In 2024 was a more special moment for him than his WWE Championship victory at WrestleMania XXX.

Greatest moment in my career https://t.co/m5SZ3UzDWr
— The Realest Swerve Strickland (@swerveconfident) April 27, 2025

Killswitch Double Pneumonia Illness Update

As noted before, Killswitch has been out of action for AEW since this past September due to a double pneumonia illness.

Fightful Select reported that Killswitch was in attendance at this past Sunday’s NBA Playoffs game between the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons in Detroit. Killswitch reportedly was seen in his mask at the game.