SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan was in Abu Dhabi over the weekend to attend the Special Olympics IX Mena Games at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
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While there, Bryan was interviewed by The National and spoke about a variety of topics, including his unforgettable night at WrestleMania XXX back in 2014, working with Shane McMahon, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn on SmackDown, next month’s WWE Greatest Royal Rumble event from Abu Dhabi and more.
Bryan was asked about his role at WrestleMania and gave a surprisingly encouraging update on the possibility of him competing on the show. Bryan’s quest to get medically cleared by WWE is well documented. He is determined to wrestle again, whether it’s in WWE or elsewhere. He has been cleared to compete by every single doctor that WWE has sent him to, yet the company has stopped short of giving him the green light to return.
Bryan says there are two paths for him at WrestleMania and it will be WWE’s call which scenario plays out. When asked about the rumor that he’ll be lacing up the boots at WrestleMania 34 next month, Bryan said:
“I don’t know, and I don’t think they know. I think it all depends on whether or not I get cleared. As of this moment, as of today, I am not cleared by WWE. I have done everything in my power – everything they have asked me to – and I have gone above and beyond as far as ‘OK, what doctors do you need me to see? Send me to any doctor you want, any doctor that you want and lets get their feedback on what is going on with me.’
So far, every doctor has cleared me that they have sent me to, and so there is a chance. I used to think that the percentage of the WWE ever clearing me was low. I think, with the stuff that I have done, it has gone a little higher, but I don’t know how much higher.”
Bryan added, “There is one way to go if I don’t get cleared and then there is another way to go if I am cleared. I am hoping to be cleared, but I don’t know which way it goes.”
WrestleMania 34 takes place in less than three weeks on Sunday, April 8th from New Orleans, Louisiana.