Bryan Danielson discusses his return to the ring at AEW All Out.
Danielson went down with a broken arm at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. He was reportedly expected to be out until October, but “The American Dragon” returned ahead of schedule. He faced Ricky Starks in a Strap Match at AEW All Out on September 3.
At the AEW All Out post-show media scrum, Nick Hausman of Haus of Wrestling asked Danielson how he was able to return so quickly. Danielson responded by stating that Starks carried him through thee match.
“So one, I had an excellent opponent,” Bryan Danielson said. “I think every time people see Ricky Starks, every time Ricky Starks gets an opportunity, he knocks it out of the park. I will be the first one to say, and this is outside of our stories and what we do, he carried me through that match tonight. I’m good at certain things.
“I’m good at a decent amount of things, and I’m confident in saying that. I can fire up, I can do all these things, but he was the one who carried me through that match. So that’s what I’m gonna say.”
Bryan Danielson Elaborates On Returning From Arm Injury
Later in the scrum, Danielson was asked about returning “early” and if he was back full-time. He stated that his arm feels great, and he has been working with a great team of doctors.
“So, the arm feels great. Nigel McGuinness has succinctly pointed out, many times at this point, that we have 206 bones in our body,” Bryan Danielson said. “205 of mine are perfectly OK. And even the 206, is almost impenetrable at this point. But we have great doctors here and there’s certain magic to pro wrestling.
“I’ve talked about this before, magicians don’t necessarily reveal their secrets. But because we have the best fans in the world here at AEW, people are legitimately concerned for my safety so I will pull back the curtain a little bit in this.”
Bryan Danielson went on to describe how there was a lot of “smoke and mirrors” in his match on Sunday. He noted that he didn’t throw a strike with his injured arm. Danielson also commented on his talks with his surgeon and his doctors.
“There was a lot of smoke and mirrors tonight,” Bryan Danielson said. “And I was in no danger whatsoever, other than the regular danger that you can get in doing a hiptoss. But I didn’t even throw a strike with my right arm and I don’t think anybody noticed. There are all of these things that you can do to avoid — and especially where I’m at in the healing process.
“We talked to not just Dr. Sampson, who I love and we went through every single thing in that with him — but we talked to the surgeon, who has no interest [in if I wrestle on this pay-per-view or not]. He’s just giving us his recommendation. All of that was talked through with doctors, so I felt very comfortable doing it. The company felt very comfortable doing it, our doctors and outside doctors felt comfortable doing it. So yeah, here I am and I feel great.”
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