Bryan Danielson reflects on WrestleMania 30 and explains why that moment didn’t mean that much to him.
While plenty of wrestling fans rejoiced when Bryan Danielson (FKA Daniel Bryan) won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 30, the moment didn’t mean a great deal to the American Dragon for a variety of reasons.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Bryan Danielson recently spoke with Sun Sport. When asked to speak on his favorite wrestling memory, Danielson said that All In: London is his favorite memory and explained why WrestleMania 30 didn’t mean that much to him as it did for others.
“The match that meant the most to me was is match I had with Swerve Strickland at All In last year. What meant the most to me about that match was my family being there,” Bryan Danielson said. “My kids got to see me wrestle. My daughter was old enough to be able to remember it for the rest of her life.
“The idea of now, I’m just essentially a dad. But my daughter will remember this thing of 50,000 people in Wembley Stadium, where her dad was cool. [Laughs] And pretty soon I’m not going to be cool. But I’m just going to keep reminding her, sweet girl, remember that time that I was cool? We have a picture of it right here. And she goes, oh yeah, you were cool once, Dad, but you’re not cool anymore.
Comparing All In: London to WrestleMania 30
“I main-evented WrestleMania XXX with WWE, and honestly, it doesn’t mean that much to me. My sister and my niece got to come into the ring, right? “But I was about to marry my wife the following Friday, and they wouldn’t let her come down to the ring. They didn’t want her to be in the thing.
“And then on top of that, it wasn’t just that, I was going through a ton of neck pain and all these other things. So these things that seem like cool moments to a viewer, there’s all this other stuff going on in a wrestler’s life or a performer’s life that could make that moment not as valuable to them as it is to the people viewing it.
“So I would say that at All In, it’s the whole circumstance of knowing my career is coming to an end. It’s knowing this might be the last time my kids ever get to see me wrestle. It’s them being there, it’s the crowd reaction. I mean, the UK crowds are just the best, right? And so it’s all of those things.
“It’s Swerve Strickland’s performance. And being in the ring with somebody who is — because I had wrestled him the year before, and seeing a performer come into his full power. You see him command the audience, and that’s just a cool thing to be in the ring with somebody like that, where you’re seeing that. And you’re seeing the growth that he had within the span of a year from the last time I wrestled him. So I mean it’s all those things that I think make it my favorite wrestling memory.”
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