During an interview with Turnbuckle Weekly, Daniel Bryan made note of the fact that he's feeling great after his return from what was thought to be a career threatening injury. WWE has given him a full schedule since his return and his body has proven up to the challenge.
He's also claiming he wasn't actually cleared to wrestle when he made his announcement that he would be entering the Royal Rumble match:
"I feel really, really good. Obviously they threw me right into the fire as soon as I came back. It's funny, I got cleared on a Monday and then the next Tuesday I was wrestling. For my first match, it was on SmackDown and they ended up putting me in two matches that night, and it's been off to the races ever since.
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"It's funny because I went down to the Performance Center down in Orlando that weekend right before I made that announcement. I was getting strength back and I met the measurements that they needed me to meet as far as strength requirements to coming back. Then as soon as that happened that following weekend I went down to NXT in Orlando and trained at the Center there just to see if I could get back to see if I would be held up there. Actually, when I made the announcement I wasn't officially cleared. It was one of those things where it was a 90-percent chance but if something happened they were going to give it another week before just to make sure nothing happened after I had gone down to train at the Performance Center. Everything was good. So I legitimately got cleared the day before my first match back."
In hindsight, WWE may have been best served to hold off on Bryan returning until after the Royal Rumble so Roman Reigns could score his big win without Philadelphia fans hijacking the show and booing him out of the building.
Then again we wouldn't be headed for Fastlane with a hot main event.
So it all worked out in the end, right?