Bryan Danielson on “There’s Not A Single Thing Left On My Wrestling Bucket List”

Bryan Danielson has been retired from a full-time in-ring wrestling career since AEW’s WrestleDream 2024 event in October of 2024. Danielson has made several non-wrestling appearances since his full-time in-ring retirement including this past July’s All In Texas event that was notable for him getting physical and this past August’s Forbidden Door 2025 event for a guest commentary role.

SENQ 693 held a recent interview with Danielson. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about if he has anything left on his wrestling bucket list.

“Nope. Not a single thing. There’s not a single thing. It’s like — I’ve been very fortunate in my career to have some incredible moments and all that kind of stuff. I think, when I was forced to retire before, I wasn’t ready to be done. With the last six months of my wrestling career being in as much pain as I was, that kind of put me in this thing like, ‘Okay, you know what, I think I’m ready to be done.’ When I was forced to retire before, I was married but we didn’t have kids yet. It’s like, you go home and you have that full parenting life, it’s a whole another thing. I’m very fulfilled by my career, I’m very fulfilled by my life right now. I get to stay in professional wrestling, which is something that I still love to this day. I was just asked in an interview before that [if I] have any interest in being an actor, I’m like, ‘No.’ What I do for entertainment still is I read and I watch wrestling. On the plane here, I was watching old wrestling to show younger talent like, ‘Hey, here’s some things that people used to do in wrestling, here are some intricacies that have been lost in the evolution of professional wrestling that you could use today that would work really well.’”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com