Bryan Danielson Defies Doctor’s Orders With AEW Dynamite Match

Bryan Danielson faces a huge match at AEW All In and given his health issues has been told to sit out until that show, but that’s not happening.

Speaking recently in an extended interview with Renee Paquette, Bryan Danielson admitted AEW’s Doc Sampson doesn’t want him competing for his title shot at Wembley:

Doc Sampson doesn’t want me to wrestle until Wembley, and that’s actually the harder part. It’s the part like, ‘What do you mean? I’m here in Nashville. Can’t I…? That sort of thing.

My neck isn’t great [laughs]. So it’s weird because this feels like the biggest match of my career, and there’s this war going on between my mind and my body of what I feel like I can do and what my body is telling that I probably shouldn’t do. Even when I talk to Brie and the family, it’s like, ‘Well, I want to do this,’ and she’s saying, ‘But what about your neck? What about this?’

Even talking to Doc Sampson, I’m like ‘I gotta go hard, I gotta do this.’ He’s like, ‘Right now, your neck is fixable. You gotta make sure that it stays fixable.’ So I’m gonna go out there, I’m gonna do my best, and just try to enjoy the moment. I mean, Wembley Stadium. How awesome?

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Now before he gets to All In, Bryan Danielson has another, more unlikely, challenge to overcome. Jeff Jarrett got in Danielson’s face and challenged him to bring everything he had to All In and on Dynamite in Greenville, Danielson repaid the favour by challenging Jarrett to a match on the 7th of August edition of Dynamite.

Bryan Danielson also raised the stakes for his All In match with Swerve Strickland on the show. Danielson vowed that he would retire if he was unable to defeat Strickland for the AEW World Championship in Wembley Stadium.