More Details On Daniel Bryan's WWE Return
Yes or No on his full-time roster status?
In a brilliant, comprehensive and exhaustively researched story well worth checking out in its entirety, Dave Meltzer in this week's Wrestling Observer has chronicled the comeback story of the...well. Does 'year' come closer to covering it? Does 'decade', even?
Of considerable interest, Meltzer notes that the treatment Bryan credits for the rehabilitation of the acute lesion located in the temporoparietal region of his brain, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), "had absolutely nothing to do with his being cleared". The testing for this experimental treatment (Nuclear Spec Scan) is not recognised by the American Medical Association.
WWE Medical Director Dr. Joseph Maroon may not have considered the methodology, but he did consider and ultimately concur with the results determined by the world's preeminent neurological minds of, and this is crucial, his choosing. Previously, Bryan sourced medical opinions independently. In what was described as a last-ditch effort to get cleared, Bryan consulted with Maroon directly and urged him to select expert and extensive testing from a handpicked braintrust (sorry) of Dr. Robert Cantu, Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, and Dr. Javier Cárdenas. The doctors of Maroon's choosing cleared him, and so too did Maroon himself.
This is no part-time deal; Meltzer theorises that Bryan will wrestle a schedule similar to that of Randy Orton, who works a reduced but not inconsiderable house show circuit in addition to virtually every TV show and pay-per-view.
Is Daniel Bryan back on a full-time basis?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Unless, of course, plans change...