During a recent appearance on the “Sports Nightly” podcast, AEW wrestler Bryan Danielson commented on breaking his arm during his match against Kazuchika Okada at the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door II pay-per-view event, what’s dangerous about having a steel rod in his bone, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his arm break recovery: “It’s doing okay. I think by continually wrestling on it, I’m slowing it down from healing 100%. Us older wrestlers like to say, we never anticipated being 100% ever again. So I think that’s kind of where I’m at. It’s fully functional. I can do pull-ups and I can do all these different sorts of things.”
On what’s dangerous about having a steel rod in his bone: “There’s nothing that’s going to happen to the bone because they put a rod in it with nine screws. The dangerous part, the doctor said, is actually where, if it were to break again, it’s easier to break where the rod ends, because the rod itself acts as a fulcrum that it could bend against. But then really, it’s like the nerve and muscle damage. Part of that is because I wrestled for 10 minutes with a broken arm and then part of it is just the work that we do.”
