Former WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan recently took part in an interview with The Daily World to promote his role as co-host of WWE’s new Cruiserweight Classic series.
Bryan spoke candidly about how it’s still difficult for him to embrace the fact that his in-ring career is over. He said it's been “borderline painful” to be around wrestling:
“It has been good, but it is weird, because my life had been so busy before retirement.” he said. “Now, you have all of this extra space and time. Because I was forced into retirement and not wanting to retire, I have to keep my mind away from wrestling. It is borderline painful. OK, so how do you fill your mind when you have filled it with this one thing for so long?”
Bryan has been keeping busy with new hobbies, including gardening, taking classes at Arizona State University and Olympic weightlifting.
“I’ve experimented with gardening. I love it, but you don’t love it like that,” he said. “A part of my mind hasn’t accepted it. I wake up sometimes with dreams of wrestling. This literally happened to me (the night before the speech). I was in Las Vegas and I flew in. I woke up this morning from a dream where I was going to wrestle and I’m not. I have to remind myself at times.”He’s moving on, but said he would “drop everything” and return to the ring if WWE ever called up him. “Realistically, no one should feel bad for me,” he said. “I am getting paid to figure out what I want to do. Who gets to do that?”
He’s moving on, but said he would “drop everything” and return to the ring if WWE ever called up him. “Realistically, no one should feel bad for me,” he said. “I am getting paid to figure out what I want to do. Who gets to do that?”
The Cruiserweight Classic series premieres on the WWE Network Wednesday, July 13th.
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