Bryan Danielson Says DEAN~!!! 2 Made Him ‘Kinda Want To Come Back’ To Wrestling

Bryan Danielson says he was inspired by watching ACTION DEAN~!! 2 to the point that he “kinda want[ed] to come back” afterward. ACTION Wrestling and AEW co-promoted the show back in May, and Danielson told Wrestle Radio Australia that he watched the show live and found himself inspired by the competitors on the card.

“There was a show we did before Double or Nothing, DEAN~!!! in tribute to Dean Rasmussen, a huge wrestling fan who wrote about wrestling on the Death Valley Driver website,” Danielson recalled (h/t to Fightful). “I watched that show, I was there live watching it. Not much has made me want to come back to wrestling because I was in so much pain the last six months of my in-ring career, but I was there at that show and was like, ‘I kinda want to come back.’ [Laughs]. What do I have to do to wrestle Mad Dog Connelly in a chain match?”

Despite being as inspired as he was, Danielson has not returned to the ring and is now commentating for AEW.