Bryan Danielson Reveals Nearly Signing With ROH In 2018

AEW star and a former 5 instances WWE World Champion Bryan Danielson who’s beforehand generally known as Daniel Bryan in WWE not too long ago revealed that he virtually signed with Ring of Honor again in 2018. Danielson is at the moment signed with AEW after departing from WWE final 12 months.

Bryan Danielson was one of many largest stars of WWE in the course of the mid 2020s. In a really quick period of time he turned out to be probably the most over wrestlers of the time. It was a troublesome time for WWE, CM Punk determined to go away the promotion, they needed to cease the model cut up and the massive stars had been getting previous. They desperately wanted a megastar who may exchange John Cena.

Bryan Danielson Reveals Nearly Signing With ROH In 2018

And this marked the rise of Daniel Bryan who grew to become one of many largest stars of WWE of the time and he virtually grew to become a Megastar. Some followers had been even began to consider principle that he’s going to be an even bigger star then John Cena within the close to future. However in early 2016 he picked up an enormous damage virtually ended his profession.

Bryan lastly return to motion after 2 years however his mega push may by no means be retrieved, despite successful the WWE championship he couldn’t regain the celebrity that he had earlier than the damage. In 2021 he signed with the newly based skilled wrestling promotion AEW and he’s nonetheless energetic within the promotion.

Bryan Danielson who’s beforehand generally known as Daniel Bryan in WWE not too long ago spoke to Inside The Ropes the place he revealed that he virtually signed with Ring of Honor again in 2018. Danielson is at the moment signed with AEW after departing from WWE final 12 months. He stated;

“It was actually fascinating. My contract with WWE was up in 2018 and I used to be contemplating going to Ring of Honor and I used to be speaking to The Younger Bucks and I used to be speaking to Cody [Rhodes] simply to sort of see — all their contracts had been up with Ring of Honor and I used to be like, ‘What are you guys gonna do?’

“As a result of even my lawyer, who doesn’t know something about professional wrestling, he stated, ‘Hey, I don’t suppose you’d wanna sign with Ring of Honor if these Younger Bucks aren’t going as a result of they’ve bought this YouTube present. I don’t know if you happen to’ve heard of it, known as Being The Elite’ and it’s primarily the driving force for the recognition of Ring of Honor on the time, proper?

“And so these guys go away, we don’t know if Ring of Honor will practically nonetheless be as in style after which with Cody’s contract developing, in the event that they depart and Cody leaves, what is going to Ring of Honor’s reputation be like? In order that was part of the dialogue.

“It’s cool for me that Mox is the place he’s at. To me, there was that wonderful interview section with CM Punk and Jon Moxley and he talked about being the center and soul of sort of AEW and I see him as that as effectively. Him, Kenny Omega and The Younger Bucks is sort of like — and Chris Jericho, what I imply?

“But I see those kind of people as the guys, right? And it’s cool that when I first wrestled him, it was in front of like 75 people on a Wednesday show in the middle of nowhere. Mox actually knows exactly where it was but I don’t even remember so it was like, all of that kind of stuff is just neat.”

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