All Elite Wrestling‘s Bryan Danielson considers his match against Kenny Omega at Arthur Ashe Stadium as pure joy to him.
Ahead of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite: Winter is Coming special, Bryan Danielson sat down with Joey Hayden of Dallas Morning News to discuss a variety of subjects. When asked to compare experiences between working with Kenny Omega at Arthur Ashe Stadium and headline WrestleMania, Danielson spoke about the pure joy he finds in some moments of his professional wrestling career:
“This is my perspective on it – other people may feel differently,” Bryan Danielson began. “But to me, the perspective is always different based on where you’re at in your life. The WrestleMania settings for me, like WrestleMania 35 when I lost to Kofi Kingston – that was pure joy. I had just been cleared to wrestle the year before, it was a lot of fun. WrestleMania 30, which is what most people associate me with, I have a little bit of a harder time with because I was in a ton of pain with my neck and shoulder, barely sleeping, and then my dad passed away and all that kind of stuff – Brie and I got married like six days after. So, there’s like a lot of ups and downs that has a lot of like weird feelings to me.
“It’s funny looking back on it now, but I had just won the title at WrestleMania 30 and I’m exhausted and I’m tired and all that kind of stuff, but I feel great, right? And then I’m holding up the belts and the camera guys keep telling me ‘Keep Yes-ing, keep Yes-ing.’ And I’m like, I can barely lift my arm and I’m holding these two titles.
“To me, the match with Kenny Omega, the difference was that was just pure joy. Being able to feel and experience an incredible moment. And also as I’ve matured, I’ve been able to enjoy wrestling more, especially since I’ve come back from my retirement. Progressively, the last several years, it’s been every time I wrestle it feels just kind of like a blessing. You never know when this is going to be taken away, so I tend to enjoy those moments just a little bit more.”
Bryan Danielson went to a 60-minute time limit draw with Hangman Page on the “Winter Is Coming” episode of Dynamite. Check out full results from the event at this link. Danielson also spoke about feeling like it’s time for him to give back to wrestling; read more about how he’s best of service in AEW at this link.
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