Bryan Danielson’s recent road trip was rather unusual.
During a recent conversation with Justin Barrasso for Undisputed, former AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson shared why he hasn’t been following John Cena’s WWE retirement tour. Danielson noted that he’s in a phase of life where he doesn’t want much screen time and media input. He’s adapted to the lifestyle so much that he recently went on a 13-hour road trip in complete silence.
No music, no podcasts, no noise… just total silence.
“I honestly haven’t watched,” Bryan Danielson began. “I’m entering this experimental phase of my life where I’m experiencing less input from media. When I went to visit my mother recently, I made a 13-hour drive. I didn’t listen to any music, I didn’t listen to any podcasts. There was nothing but silence. The only times there wasn’t silence was when my wife called, I got on an AEW call, or when I called mom.
“As I experiment with less input, that also means less wrestling input. So I haven’t seen any of John Cena’s final run. I’m not watching, but I hope it goes really well for John. That guy deserves the last year of his career to be awesome.”
Bryan Danielson Reveals The Only AEW Match He Was Nervous For
During his recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Bryan Danielson shared that he felt nervous before his match against Kazuchika Okada at Forbidden Door 2023.
“Shawn Michaels told us — because I was trained by Shawn Michaels — he told the whole class, ‘The day that you stop being nervous before you go out there is the day you need to retire,’ right? Bryan Danielson began.
“When I came back from being forced to retire, I thought that for that first match I’d be nervous, and I wasn’t. I was just happy. And I never really got nervous before a match again.
“There was one match where I was nervous, and that was the match I had with Okada at Forbidden Door in 2023. The only reason I was nervous was because it was a five-hour show, we were on last, and we had to follow Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay. I had watched that match and I was like, ‘Oh no.’ And then there were still two more matches before me and Okada had to go out there. I was like, ‘Oh.’ I was stressed. But that’s the only time I remember being nervous before a match,” Bryan Danielson said.
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