Daniel Bryan on Why It’s Taking a While for Him to Re-Sign With WWE

Daniel Bryan’s WWE contract expires on September 1 and he still hasn’t re-signed, though he said that it could happen at any time and there’s a “90-plus percent” chance that he will re-sign.

He was interviewed by FOX Sports and said that there are still a couple of things to iron out – mostly a reduced schedule. He also said that this is the first time he’s hired a lawyer to look at his contract.

“There’s a couple of things like that (how much time I get to spend with my family). This is the first time in my career, ever – the thing that’s taking so long with all of it is I’ve never hired a lawyer before to look at a contract, so this is the first time I’ve done it, so it just takes longer than usual (laughs).

“My last contract I think I signed in 2012. So then, I wasn’t married – Brie and I were together, but I wasn’t married – so you’re just trying to get all of your ducks in a row, especially because I’m older, and married, and have a baby.

“It’s the responsibility and it’s crazy because a lot of us as WWE superstars, we end up not getting lawyers to look at our contracts, we just look at it and go ‘oh, ok, what’s this number, what’s this number? Oh fine, whatever,’ without reading the fine print.”