Danielson back in the ring isn't certain doom anymore
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Daniel Bryan retired on February 8, 2016. I get together that character will never, ever wrestle once more. WWE will never clear the man behind him, and he'll spend every day left under a WWE contract either commentating matches, allowing Full Bellas camera crews to film him effectually his house, and almost noticeably, every bit a not-wrestling dominance figure on Smackdown. His WWE career apexed at WrestleMania XXX, and for all intents and purposes, it remains almost a ideal ideal on an artistic level. He got to the mountain and was able to stay at that place and retire. Sure, information technology was under dubious conditions, just he didn't have too much real manor to clutter after his big moment in New Orleans.

Bryan Danielson, however, is not retired from wrestling, non by a longshot. He'due south been more than teasing his render to the squared circle once his WWE contract is complete in September of 2018. He's toyed with members of the Bullet Club online and openly welcomed a render to Ring of Honor on Twitter. Given the circumstances of WWE refusing to clear him, I get why this anticipation is more than dread than looking forward. Concussions are scary business, and even if WWE won't clear him for the most donating reasons, information technology is the virtually stringent promotion when it comes to that sort of thing. Danielson receiving clearance to wrestle in any other company may not exist as conviction-granting, particularly given that again, almost every other company in the earth has less stringent guidelines for perceived in-ring safety.

A fine line between full general fear for one's safety and business organization trolling exists, and few know where it lays then they don't know if they're crossing. On one mitt, Danielson stepping back into an environment where the head-bumps are more plentiful, where the risks are larger, where the corporate oversight is either laxer or nonexistent is a scary idea. Wrestling fans have seen many legends either die in their homes of consequences of risky in-ring work like [REDACTED] or even dice in the ring, like Mitsuharu Misawa and Perro Aguayo, Jr. No one wants to meet Danielson suffering a similar fate. He'south perhaps the near dearest effigy in wrestling correct now, adored by both WWE and contained audiences alike.

On the other hand, I'thou non certain anyone has all the info, non fifty-fifty Danielson, but he'll definitely have the all-time information possible. It is his health, later on all. Over again, doctors don't exercise without bias; objectivity, true objectivity is a myth. WWE doctors, who could exist quacks given some of the company's other practices, are only looking out for what Vince McMahon tells them to look out for, which is his lesser line. WWE has a concussion suit ongoing, and the company could play information technology too safely when information technology comes to the highest-profile caput-trauma retiree, especially if the data those doctors got was wrong. Danielson's doctors, however, may as well be hand-picked to requite him the all-time news. So what do fans know? Probably nothing, which is what makes moralizing about any potential return to the ring pointless. It's non proverb that people shouldn't exist concerned nigh it, because the possibility of Danielson getting bad information and, well, dying in the band is real.

So, if no 1 knows anything, and then the creeping want to see the best wrestler in the earth, perchance in wrestling history, become dorsum in the ring becomes more and more than valid than it was on February 9, 2016. Maybe "morbid curiosity" isn't the best reason for a wrestler to go back in the ring despite apparent risk. I may be — scratch that, I definitely am a bad person because my selfish desire to see the best wrestling possible is slowly converting me into a rabid anticipator of the American Dragon's return to a wrestling band.

But if Danielson wants to become back into a ring and has the medical clearance to back him upwardly, maybe it's time to put a little faith in that decision. I understand not getting behind it full bore, but he'southward not exactly a impaired performer. He'due south schooled in many styles, and he has clout enough that he could probably pick and cull what bumps he wants to accept, let alone opponents to wrestle. No form of wrestling is ever going to be 100 percent safe, but for the all-time technical wrestler of all-time, i can afford to surrender a modicum of trust, right?

So that'southward why I no longer care for the render of Bryan Danielson to the indie scene or another corporately owned wrestling entity like New Nippon Pro Wrestling or Band of honor as an inevitability towards certain doom. I will always accept an anticipation, but at the end of the day, who gives a fuck what I want? It's his career, and he seems to be making a selection based on data and noesis of his ain trunk. When it's all over, autonomy is the only matter a person really ever wants to have anyway.