In an interview with Turnbuckle Weekly, Daniel Bryan revealed he was feeling great after returning from what seemed to be a career-threatening injury. He added that WWE has given him a full schedule since his return and his body has coped well thus far.
Interestingly, he also revealed he hadn’t been medically cleared to wrestle when he made an announcement on Raw that will be returning as one of the entrants in the Royal Rumble match:
“I feel really, really good. Obviously they threw me right into the fire as soon as I came back. It’s funny, I got cleared on a Monday and then the next Tuesday I was wrestling. For my first match, it was on SmackDown and they ended up putting me in two matches that night, and it’s been off to the races ever since.
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“It’s funny because I went down to the Performance Center down in Orlando that weekend right before I made that announcement. I was getting strength back and I met the measurements that they needed me to meet as far as strength requirements to coming back. Then as soon as that happened that following weekend I went down to NXT in Orlando and trained at the Center there just to see if I could get back to see if I would be held up there. Actually, when I made the announcement I wasn’t officially cleared. It was one of those things where it was a 90-percent chance but if something happened they were going to give it another week before just to make sure nothing happened after I had gone down to train at the Performance Center. Everything was good. So I legitimately got cleared the day before my first match back.”
