Daniel Bryan Offers Advice to Cesaro and Seth Rollins

It seems as if the tide has turned on Daniel Bryan’s wrestling career in WWE. Daniel Bryan hasn’t wrestled consistently since early this spring, but the ultimate question of his retirement has been looming ever since that time.

The issue wasn’t that Bryan got hurt. The problem was he came back early despite not healing his body fully before getting back into the ring. In an interview with Pass the Popcorn, Daniel Bryan has the following advice for Seth Rollins and Cesaro about staying healthy.”

“I would say just make sure to be healthy when you come back and don’t rush it. But man, Cesaro, I’ve known him for years and this is his first major injury. For a guy who’s been wrestling that long, that’s pretty incredible. Rollins had neck surgery when he was on the independents but other than that he’s been relatively injury free. He and Cesaro are the two guys who actually wrestled more matches than anybody in the WWE. I mean in 2013, the year before my neck surgery, I wrestled more matches than anybody on the roster by a long shot. I did 227 matches that year and that what happens when you’re one of the work horses and are out there doing all those matches, you’re bound to get injured.”

Daniel Bryan had a lot more to say during the interview about what kind of off-screen roles WWE has offered him, including being a trainer for NXT. You can see the full interview right here. Below are the highlights:

On if he would change his wrestling style if he were to return to action:

“My wife would like me to! She’d like me to take fewer risks. But here’s the problem with that – I’m the underdog. I’m not six feet tall; I’m five foot eight and one hundred eighty-five pounds, so I am going to get thrown around. I’ve been trying to come up with some ideas and stuff, but that’s the style of wrestling I enjoy doing. I like flying around but yeah, I’m going to have to do some things to limit the injuries I think.”

On WWE pitching him other roles that are not physical:

“They [WWE] asked me a bunch of stuff of what I’d like to do like announce or be a trainer at NXT. I’m sure at some point in my life I would, but right now it would be too soon.”