Bryan Danielson suffered a fractured forearm during his match against Kazuchika Okada at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. He underwent surgery for the injury in July and said he's on the road to recovery.
Bryan will miss AEW All In due to the injury and it is unknown when he will return to the ring.
Speaking on The Nikki & Brie Show alongside his wife Brie Garcia (Brie Bella), Bryan was asked about his favorite match in AEW thus far.
Bryan started by saying that he doesn't have favorites, he just enjoys matches in the moment and that he's enjoyed many of his matches in AEW. He then got into his bout against Okada and the injury.
"He did an elbow drop to me off the top rope. It ended up breaking my arm. I wrestled another ten minutes with a broken arm, which the doctor said made it worse. That said, I find a certain joy in doing things that are hard. Even though it probably caused me a little bit more damage, I got more value out of it that it happened versus if it had not happened. Even though, if I could take it back, I would wish my arm never got broken and that I'd be able to wrestle at All In in Wembley, it's going to be one of the biggest wrestling crowds in history, and I don't get to take part in it because my arm is still healing. Despite that, and I wouldn't ask for my arm to be broken if I could do it over again, but because it did happen and I couldn't control it, it almost gave more meaning to how I felt about the match itself. Also, I did a press conference with my broken arm. We didn't know how bad it was at the time. I do this a lot with fasting, and there are a lot of health benefits to fasting, when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position or you do something and it's uncomfortable and you keep doing it, it's not like, 'yay, I did it.' It's 'can I do this?' For example, while fasting or wrestling with a broken arm, can I do this and keep a good attitude while being in pain, while being starving? Those are things I think to myself when things are happening. That's one of the matches I really like if I'm looking back on something versus experiencing something in the moment. I enjoyed that match with Okada," he said.
Fightful Select reported that Danielson is still scheduled to be in London for appearances during AEW All In week and weekend.
Fightful will continue to update fans on Danielson's injury and recovery as more is known.
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