Welcome to another edition of
OFF-TRACK with A-TRAIN
where I report on
Daniel Bryan's Plans
For His Post-WWE Wrestling Career
BECAUSE HE GOT WEIRDLY SPECIFIC LAST NIGHT ON TWITTER
As we discuss🍃ed earlier, Daniel Bryan Live-Tweeted the Total Bellas episode last night, which focused on John Cena and Nikk🙈i Bella teaming up for their feud against Miz & Maryse. So when Bryan Tweeted the following, it was especially poignant.
But of course, that's not possible, since Daniel Bryan🌃 was forced to retir𓃲e from WWE when the company's doctors refused to clear him. He now serves as SmackDown's General Manager.
🦂And the WWE won't even let him take a bump in his wife's training video without censoring it♛.
But if there's one thing that we learned when he was co-hosting the now-defunct post-SmackDown shoot-fest "Talking Smack," it was that he doesn't give a flying FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE w𝓰hat he says. What are they going to do, fire him?
"Great," he wou꧑ld say in that case, "I'm just going to go to Japan and start my career back up ove🌼r there."
Because Daniel Bryan has said he has doctor's notes that prove he should be cleared to wrestle, and he believes he would be cleared in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and he even gave꧒ a vague contract expiration date during an episode of Talking S༺mack back on March 7.
A year and a half.
That comment caused rampant speculation (I wrote about it here) and even caused me to create a which now sits at approximately 351 days♋.
So when you look at Daniel Bryan's Tweets from lasꦆt night, starting with this one:
... you can see that he's really serious about coming back to wresಞtle, regardless of whether it's for WWE or not.
So let's assume he is leaving WWE in 351 days, and let's use his Tweets from l🐟ast night to boo𝔍k his career after he leaves.
1. He's going to Japan, and he's going to feud with EVERYBODY.
But he doesn't want to faceඣ j♛ust IWGP Champ Kazuchika Okada and the leader of Los Ingobernables de Japon Tetsuya Naito.
2. He also wants "tap out" the ENTIRE Bullet Club.
He even TAGGED THEM IN THE TWEET.
And at least one of them noticed.
So THAT would be fun.
The Young Bucks responded with a picture of Dave Meltzer, so I think that means they accept Bryan's challenge?
But also, there was at least one Bullet Club♔ member that Bryan DIDN'T tag who wants a piece of the American Dragon.
3. We already know that Daniel Bryan wants to face Cody Rhodes for the ROH Championship.
So we know wha𝓡t Bryan will be doing late next September.
4. He wants a shot at Kenny Omega, preferably somewhere like the Tokyo Dome.
Kenny is down.
Wrestle Kingdom 2019 anyone?
Now, there's always a chance that he could wrestle in Mexico, b🍃ut without his formerly-trademarked long tresses, it wouldn'🔴t be as fun.
So it's definitely New Japan for Daniel Bry❀an, starting in 351 days.
Unless h🐻e gets ꦫthe news--from a doctor not in the employ of WWE--that returning to wrestling would be too dangerous.
In ⛄which case, he'd quit an🍷d never go back. Because now there's something more important to care about.
