>>14992883He got another neck surgery after he was forced to retire which helped with a lot of the pain he was in and allowed him to at least get back in the gym more than he was previously capable of. So he was finally able to strengthen things back up. He was doing his own stunts during shows he was filming in the meantime but still wasn't even considering wrestling an option. It wasn't until he took a spill while mountain biking with Sheamus where he first felt it was possible because it was an uncontrolled bump so to speak and he felt okay after. He went and saw a whole slew of doctors and had to get cleared by them all. Including the one who initially deemed him unable to wrestler again. Which ultimately and fortunately he was able to do. I might be missing some parts but he's talked about it a ton. Basically it was the surgery plus time to let his body heal and recover from all he had done to it plus strength training plus making it through every checkpoint to get cleared that he needed to. I get people aren't huge on him especially on here but man it's a hell of a story
