Bryan Danielson Says He Was ‘Sick As A Dog’ During 2022 Match With Matt Menard

In an interview with Unscripted (via Fightful), Bryan Danielson revealed that he was incredibly ill during his AEW Dynamite match with Matt Menard on September 28, 2022. He noted that he almost turned down wrestling that night, something that’s uncommon for him.

He said: “I love to wrestle. Some people don’t want to wrestle every week on TV. No, I want to wrestle every week. One time, I was sick, super sick. Tony (Khan) knows me so well, he came up to me, I’m lying on the floor in the trainer’s room and Tony goes, ‘Bryan, do you want to wrestle today?’ I go, ‘Not really.’ He was so blown away by that. He had never asked me about wrestling a match and I said, ‘Not really.’ He goes, ‘Oh. I just had an idea and you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.’ ‘What’s the match?’ ‘It would really help the show.’ It wasn’t even a guilt trip. ‘I can do it. If it’s better for the show, I’ll do it. I can get through this match, sick as a dog.’ I wrestled Matt Menard, who hadn’t done a singles match in three years. I’m sick as a dog, he hadn’t wrestled a match in however long, and we had nine minutes to go do our thing. When we came back, I had so much fun. I was sick as a dog, we went out there and did this thing, and it was so much fun.“