Bryan Danielson has a score to settle with Kazuchika Okada.
The American Dragon will be clashing with the Rainmaker at NJPW’s WrestleKingdom 18 pay-per-view next month from the Tokyo Dome. Danielson spoke with NJPW ahead of the Forbidden Door 2 rematch, where he angrily revealed how much time wrestling Okada has taken away from him after accidentally breaking his arm.
I’m on the decline as a wrestler. And Okada stole over three months of my life. You stole three months of my last year as a full-time wrestler! And if we talk about “fighting spirit” and “strong style,” a good example is when I tapped out Okada with a broken arm. It was the first time Okada had tapped since 2015. I fought for 10 minutes with a broken arm until he got tapped out. However, I was unable to hold my son for two months after that. I still haven’t fully regained the strength in my right arm.
Danielson then blames Okada for his broken orbital bone before promising to take everything from the Rainmaker at WrestleKingdom.
The next time I wrestled against Okada, I broke my orbital bone in two places on Okada’s rainmaker. My vision is still blurry and I have to drive my kids to school. What do you think is my driving force? Sometimes the fighting spirit I feel in the ring is my driving force. But most of the driving force behind the fight is my children. Okada…I don’t know why it’s just me. Of course, it may not have been intentional. No, maybe he was humiliated by the tap, so he showed off his power by breaking my orbital. But my goal for this upcoming match is…I’m really looking forward to competing at “WRESTLE KINGDOM” in Tokyo Dome. But the goal of this fight is to legitmately break Okada’s right arm.
The full interview can be found here.
