As we reported on Wednesday evening, while in Asia doing promotional work former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan told The New Paper out of Singapore that he thinks his WWE career might be over as a result of his injuries. Bryan also spoke with PassThePopcorn.My out of Malaysia. Below are some of the highlights from that interview.
On whether or not he would change his in-ring style if he were ever to the ring:
“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 contacting him to offer him other roles in the company:
“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.”
On advice for Seth Rollins and Cesaro:
“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.”
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