Bryan Danielson doesn’t think he has anything left on his bucket list.
At WrestleDream 2024, upon losing the AEW World Championship to Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson’s full-time in-ring career came to an end. The 44-year-old can boast one of the most accomplished careers in wrestling, and, aside from appearing in a Blue Panther mask to help Hangman Page at All In, ‘The American Dragon’ has stayed largely inactive over the last 11 months. While many fans remain hopeful that he may make a return to the ring, he’s now revealed that there isn’t anything left that he feels he needs to tick off.
Speaking with SENQ 693, Danielson revealed there isn’t anything left on his pro 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.’”
-Bryan Danielson
While last October may have been the full stop on his full-time run, it was known for some time that Bryan was looking to wind down his career, and so he was sure to hit a lot his remaining goals before the curtain fell. This included completing at Wembley Stadium and getting to wrestle Blue Panther at Arena Mexico.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Bryan Danielson as soon as we hear more.
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
