WWE Star Daniel Bryan Retires Due To Concussions
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Professional wrestling star Daniel Bryan announced his retirement Monday night on WWE's Raw.
Bryan, 34, a three-time WWE champion from Aberdeen, Washington points to concussions for his retirement.
"Within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions," Bryan said on Monday night's episode of Raw. "For years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, or here, or there, and it gets to the point when you've been wrestling for 16 years that it adds up to a lot of concussions. It gets to a point where they tell you that you can't wrestle anymore."
"I have loved this in a way that I have never loved anything else," he continued. "But a week and a half ago I took a test that said maybe my brain wasn't as OK as I thought it was. And I have a family to think about, and my wife and I want to start having kids soon."
Bryan is a Seattle Seahawks fan, but explained why the Philadelphia Eagles are his second favorite NFL team last summer on SportsRadio 94WIP.
"So you have to understand that I am mildly sucked into the Eagles vortex because my wife [Brie Bella] is a huge Eagles fan," Bryan told Michael Barkann and Jody McDonald Monday on the 94WIP Mike & Ike Show. "Her family is from South Philly, like her grandpa is from South Philly. So they were just raised being huge Eagles fans. So, my number one team in football is the Seattle Seahawks, but if the Seahawks are not in the race or the running for everything, I am rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles."
