Bryan Danielson Wants To Channel Homer Simpson For In-Ring Retirement

Bryan Danielson went into AEW All In not sure if he’d be leaving Wembley Stadium with his career intact, with the ‘American Dragon’ putting his full-time professional wrestling life on the line against AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland.

A bloody Danielson eventually emerged with the title firmly around his waist, having got the tap out win for his first championship in AEW. However, Danielson still knows that retirement is just around the corner, with ‘AmDrag’ telling TMZ Sports that he wants to disappear when his time comes to hang up the boots:

“I’d really like to just disappear,” Danielson said. “At least from the public eye. What I’d really like to do is help the community, be involved in my kids’ lives, as far as my wife got to coach our son’s t-ball team last year, I’d love to be to do that this year. Those sorts of things, those are the kinds of things that I’m putting focus on and priority on.”

Danielson continued, noting how he wants to go out like Homer Simpson:

“Claudio [Castagnoli] had just mentioned to me on Wednesday, when we were driving back to our hotel after Dynamite, he goes, ‘Bryan, whenever you’re done, I kind of hope I never see you again’ [laughs]. Then he added later, ‘I mean I’d love to come visit you at your house, far away from everybody. But I kind of hope that that’s it.’ Because I think he kind of knows that’s what I want, is to kind of disappear.

“There’s definitely benefits to being in the spotlight, but there’s a lot of trade-offs. I think sometimes if you experience mental health issues and stuff like that, being in the spotlight isn’t necessarily a good thing. So yeah. I’d like to just kind of retreat into the forest. I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I vaguely remember Homer Simpson, like he’s in the bushes, and he just slowly disappears, right [laughs]. That’s me, but into the woods,” said Danielson.

H/T: WrestleZone