Daniel Bryan announces his retirement on twitter.

[Jmare007]

The seizure stuff is pretty brutal. One wonders how long he's been suffering them, whether it's been long enough that he dissociated them from the concussions. That seems unlikely given he hid them from his doctors... which is just stupid insane if you've ever known anyone who suffered from them.

 

Meltzer said the last time he had a seizure was in 2011, and that he "knew for a fact" that every doctor Bryan went to knew about the seizures.

[bradhindsight]

That's important to note since the clip of his last singles match with Sheamus, where he takes the bullhammer outside, was going around with all this talk like he had a seizure right on TV (he was obviously selling the would-be countout finish) and the ringside doctor and everyone just ignored it.

[Jingus]

I've seen the clip, and I seriously doubt that was a shoot seizure. He would've had their medical team all over him to seal up that cut on his forehead, and they almost certainly would've noticed if he was showing symptoms of something like that. The WWE was already incredibly paranoid about concussions in general and Bryan's concussions in particular, but they still felt confident enough in his health that they had him go out there and work eight more matches in the next two weeks after that.

 

And really, I wonder how you "hide" seizures in a career like wrestling anyway. You're constantly surrounded by people on the road; and there's no choice in when these things occur, and not even much warning. The tend to happen pretty quickly, out of nowhere. Either he only had a tiny handful of them ever, or he was the luckiest sumbitch in the world that it never happened while he was on the airplane or at the airport or at the gym or at a restaurant or at a publicity event or any of the hundred other places where a seizure would be immediately seen by a zillion outsiders.

[ohtani's jacket]

There are different types of seizures. The seizures that everyone is imagining when they think of Danielson's condition are grand-mal generalized seizures where the person loses consciousness and begins convulsing. It's possible that he had partial seizures with different symptoms.