Bryan Danielson spoke with our own Denise Salcedo at today’s AEW All In 2025 media event at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
The former AEW World Champion confirmed he’ll attend the event on Saturday, July 12, 2025, but as for performing on the show, Danielson still doesn’t know if he’ll ever be able to wrestle again.
Following his loss to Jon Moxley at AEW WrestleDream, Danielson noted that while his full-time wrestling career was over, he does not consider himself retired. However, he has a potentially career-ending neck injury that may require surgery.
He said:
My neck is not great.
It’s causing me to not sleep good and some of these other things but at the end of the day, I’m happy.
On if he’ll have surgery on his neck:
I’m trying to avoid it.
The idea to me is that surgery is a last resort, not a first resort. I’m trying some other things, and I’m a little kooky. People who know me know I’m a little kooky. I’m going to try some other things first before going under the knife. So, that’s kind of my plan now.
On the chances of him wrestling again:
If I had to guess, right now, I would say it’s 50/50 if I’ll ever (wrestle again), and you know what, I’m okay with that. I loved the time I got to spend doing this, but I also love what I’m doing now.
Danielson’s full conversation with Salcedo is available below:
Also interviewed at today’s AEW All In 2025 media event in Arlington, Texas, by Denise Salcedo:
Also in wrestling news today:
- WWE has added segments involving New Day, Seth Rollins, and Drew McIntyre to tonight’s WWE Raw in Witchita, Kansas.
- TNA Wrestling has announced Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary for Turning Point on December 13 at Center Stage in Atlanta. Tickets to the show are sold out.
- Conrad Thompson revealed at today’s AEW All In 2025 press event that Starrcast will be part of “All In Week” leading up to the event. Of course, the first Starrcast convention coincided with the first All In event in 2018.
- Rey Fenix made several cryptic statements over the weekend and again on Monday that may refer to his situation with AEW. He hasn’t performed for the company since July, and Dave Meltzer reported that injury time was added onto his contract that will keep him with AEW for “nearly but not quite one year.” Fenix wrote, “I needed a doctor and you ignored me for months.” and “No one stays in a place where they received inhumane treatment.”
- New Japan Pro Wrestling officially confirmed that the winner of the World Tag League, Hiromu Takahashi and Tetsuya Naito, will face each other at Wrestle Kingdom. The match was originally supposed to happen in 2020 but was canceled due to the global pandemic.
- NJPW also confirmed that Great-O-Khan will have a mystery partner to replace the injured HENARE at Wrestle Dynasty on January 5. The winners of their match against The Young Bucks on the show will be the new IWGP World Tag Team Champions.