AEW star and a former five times WWE World Champion Bryan Danielson who is previously known as Daniel Bryan in WWE recently revealed that he almost signed with Ring of Honor back in 2018. Danielson is currently signed with AEW after departing from WWE last year.
Bryan Danielson was one of the biggest stars of WWE during the mid 2020s. In a very short amount of time he turned out to be one of the most over wrestlers of the time. It was a difficult time for WWE, CM Punk decided to leave the promotion, they had to stop the brand split and the big stars were getting old. They desperately needed a megastar who could replace John Cena.
Bryan Danielson Reveals Almost Signing With ROH In 2018
And this marked the rise of Daniel Bryan who became one of the biggest stars of WWE of the time and he almost became a Megastar. Some fans were even started to believe theory that he is going to be a bigger star then John Cena in the near future. But in early 2016 he picked up a big injury almost ended his career.
Bryan finally return to action after 2 years but his mega push could never be retrieved, in spite of winning the WWE championship he could not regain the fame that he had before the injury. In 2021 he signed with the newly founded professional wrestling promotion AEW and he is still active in the promotion.
Bryan Danielson who is previously known as Daniel Bryan in WWE recently spoke to Inside The Ropes where he revealed that he almost signed with Ring of Honor back in 2018. Danielson is currently signed with AEW after departing from WWE last year. He said;
“It was really interesting. My contract with WWE was up in 2018 and I was considering going to Ring of Honor and I was talking to The Young Bucks and I was talking to Cody [Rhodes] just to kind of see — all their contracts were up with Ring of Honor and I was like, ‘What are you guys gonna do?’
“Because even my lawyer, who doesn’t know anything about pro wrestling, he said, ‘Hey, I don’t think you’d wanna sign with Ring of Honor if these Young Bucks aren’t going because they’ve got this YouTube show. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, called Being The Elite’ and it’s essentially the driver for the popularity of Ring of Honor at the time, right?
“And so those guys go away, we don’t know if Ring of Honor will nearly still be as popular and then with Cody’s contract coming up, if they leave and Cody leaves, what will Ring of Honor’s popularity be like? So that was a part of the discussion.
“It’s cool for me that Mox is where he’s at. To me, there was that excellent interview segment with CM Punk and Jon Moxley and he talked about being the heart and soul of kind of AEW and I see him as that as well. Him, Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks is kind of like — and Chris Jericho, you know what I mean?
“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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