On Tuesday Night, Daniel Bryan joined ESPN Anchor Jonathan Coachman on their weekly WWE segment, “Off The Top Rope,” where he discussed his career in wrestling and life outside of WWE.
But the most significant moment of their interview came when Daniel Bryan revealed that he went out of his way to hide concussion symptoms from WWE’s medical staff to get back into the ring. Not only that, but Bryan explained that he had several post-concussion seizures, which showed up on medical EEG’s, that he had been dealing with for a while and also hid from WWE personal.
Here are some quotes from that interview thanks to Cageside Seats:
On the amount of concussions he has suffered:
“We’ve been able to document 10 concussions, and as a lot of people who are familiar with concussions know, you can’t document all of them. If you were to ask an NFL player how many concussions they’ve had it would be impossible for them to say. … It’s also hard to define concussion. The more literature that comes out about it the more awareness there is, so we’re finding out about it all the time. So it would be impossible to say.”
What led to his decision to retire:
“I went to New York City, I had taken an EEG. I had taken multiple EEG’s before and for those who don’t know, EEG’s are measuring the electrical brain currents and that sort of thing. I’m not real familiar… I’m not a doctor. I’m just trying to explain this as best I can. But this is a new sort of test that they’re doing, an EEG while they’re doing reflex testing. That’s actually measuring how the electrodes are going through your brain as you’re doing reflex stuff. All my other EEG’s had come out great, right? My EEG’s had come out great, my brain MRI’s had come out great, my neuropsychological tests had come out great. I was looking for something further to support my claim that I could come back to wrestling. But what this had found was I had some slowing and I think what they said was a small subacute or chronic lesion in my temporal parietal region, an area of the brain that causes seizures. One of the things that’s been hard about this is I have had post-concussion seizures that I’ve hid for a long time. There was never any evidence to see why I would have these seizures but then we finally found some.”
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