Bryan Danielson recently stated that his neck is “wrecked,” leaving him uncertain about an in-ring return after his last AEW match last year.

During a recent interview with The Daily Star, Danielson revealed that he is working on improving his health to resume practicing jiu-jitsu. He said,

“I wouldn’t say, I wouldn’t say good health in the sense of like, I can’t work out the way that I used to work out. My therapist literally won’t allow me to. Like, I can’t hold heavy dumbbells, just down. There’s certain things, and we’re hoping to build that back up, right? So, like, in working with people, that sort of thing, like, one of my goals is to be able to go and train jiu-jitsu. Not compete, but just be able to go do jiu-jitsu and not get hurt. One of the guys that I’m working with says, ‘so yeah, I think that’s possible in like a year.’ I was like, ‘okay, so what does that mean for wrestling?’ But I also don’t want to say like, ‘Hey, I’m done wrestling’ because I’ve said a couple of times, ‘Oh, I mean, it’s 95% sure that I won’t be competing at Forbidden Door.’ One of the guys just said, ‘Well, that still leaves 5%.’ I’m like, yeah. That’s if something horrible happens and Tony calls me like, hey, Bryan, we need somebody to fill in. I was like, ‘okay, I guess I can do it, right?; Never say never. But other than that,it’s like I’m now at the stage of my life. I did 25 years of wrestling, and I loved it, and I’m satisfied, and it feels like enough right now.”