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Daniel Bryan After more than two years of evaluations, reviews of his medical history and neurological and physical evaluations, Bryan was cleared by three external independent neurosurgeons, neurologists and concussion experts—in addition to Joseph Maroon—to return to WWE in-ring competition on March 20.[334] On that day's SmackDown Live, Bryan thanked fans for their constant support and vowed to wrestle again, but as SmackDown General Manager, he (kayfabe) fired Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn for attacking Shane McMahon the week before, resulting in Owens and Zayn attacking Bryan.[335] In response, Bryan expressed regret over favoring them and scheduled a tag team match at WrestleMania 34 pitting himself and McMahon against Owens and Zayn, with the latter being rehired if they win.[336][337] At the event on April 8, Bryan and McMahon won after Bryan made Zayn tap out in his first match since April 2015.[338] As a result of being medically cleared, McMahon announced at the beginning of the 10 April episode of SmackDown Live that he had "gracefully accepted Bryan's resignation" before preceding to announce the recently retired Paige as his replacement.[339] Later that same night, Bryan would have his first match on SmackDown Live since April 2015 against WWE Champion A.J. Styles, which he won by disqualification after Shinsuke Nakamura interfered and attacked both men.[340][341] The following week, Styles and Bryan would team up against Rusev and Aiden English during day two of the 2018 WWE Superstar Shake-up, but the match would end in a no-contest after Nakamura attacked Styles again and Bryan was attacked by the returning recently drafted Big Cass. Bryan participated in the Greatest Royal Rumble match at the namesake event entering at #1 and lasted for 76 minutes thus also breaking the record for longest time in a Rumble match and made it to the final three before being eliminated by Big Cass. At Backlash, he would defeat Big Cass via submission in a singles match.[342] Bryan again defeated Cass via submission in a singles match at Money in the Bank.