Bryan Danielson has revealed his next career move.
After losing to Jon Moxley at WrestleDream 2024 in his last televised wrestling match, Bryan Danielson is currently recovering from neck injuries. With a history of neck issues, Danielson suffered a critical fall last year at Dynasty, which allegedly worsened the case.
Now away from pro-wrestling for almost a year, The American Dragon recently returned at All In 2025 to help Adam Page in his match against Jon Moxley. Soon after, during his appearance at Starrcast stage presentation (video courtesy of All Elite Hub), Danielson opened up on his potential next career step. Hoping to become a volunteer firefighter, the former World Champion said:
So one of the things in our area that needs help is the forest fires, and so, one of my things to provide service to my community is training to be a volunteer firefighter… I’m looking at how I can be of service to my community and where I can feel like I’m really doing something with my life that’s productive and has meaning, you know? Those are the kind of things I’m looking for.”
[H/T: Fightful]
An extremely environmentally conscious person, Danielson hopes to improve the community and is currently focused on his family life.
Bryan Danielson Opens Up On Why He Signed With AEW
Earlier this year, while speaking with Oliver Browning of TalkSPORT, Bryan Danielson discussed his decision to sign with AEW:
We had a wrestler, Brodie Lee, who had passed away. They did this incredible tribute show. At that point, I was still with WWE. And the way that they did that show — Brodie was my friend — it touched something in me and in my mind. I was thinking like, ‘Oh, these are the good guys of professional wrestling.’
There’s going to be times where we make wrong, or bad decisions, that happens everywhere. But one of the things that I like to think about AEW is that we try — and we don’t market ourselves as this — to be good. Tony Khan never says it. He never says, ‘We’re the good guys in professional wrestling.’
But that’s one of the things that I thought of when I was in WWE. I was like, ‘Oh, the people behind this, who are running this thing, they care about the wrestlers. They care about the fans, too.’ The one thing that I love about Tony is that he is a wrestling fan and he wants to produce a show for wrestling fans, or that wrestling fans will enjoy.”
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