Former WWE star and a former five times WWE World Champion Daniel Bryan who is currently working by his previous name Bryan Danielson in the AEW recently talked about his battle with depression and how much guilty it made him feel.
Bryan Danielson had been one of the biggest names in WWE and he was a top baby face of the promotion. Nobody expected WWE would let him go so easily. A lot of professional wrestling legends, critics and fans criticized WWE for letting Bryan go since he was the top babyface of the promotion. And if WWE is lacking in something that is building a top babyface for the promotion.
Bryan Danielson Opens Up On His Battle With Depression
After Bryan left WWE is struggling badly to build a concrete babyface for either of their main roster shows. For both shows they had to bring back part time wrestlers so that they could feature as the babyface number one contender for both world championships. Right now they are trying to build new faces, but it does not seem like they would be able to build someone like Bryan so easily.
Bryan made his AEW debut at the recent AEW pay per view event which was All Out. It was one star-studded show. There were more debuts of former WWE stars like Adam Cole and Ruby Riott aka Ruby Soho. More WWE stars switched to AEW throughout the year 2021.
Bryan Danielson has mostly been treated as a main event star in WWE but since joining the All Elite Wrestling he had never been consistently treated as a main eventer. Currently, he is out of action with an injury. Hopefully, he will be given the treatment he deserves after his return.
Daniel Bryan who is currently working by his previous name Bryan Danielson in the AEW recently spoke to the “Unconsciously Coupled” podcast where he talked about his battle with depression and how much guilty it made him feel. He said;
Brie ended up coming back and doing more wrestling, but what we thought was going to be her last match, I’d gone off the rails. Like, deep, deep off the rails. So I wasn’t there for what, in theory, could have been her last match.
“So deep, deep guilt for that. For her mom and Johnny’s [Laurinaitis] wedding, I wasn’t there for that because I’d had a really bad episode. There are those kind of things. Then there’s the everyday – I don’t want to say everyday guilt, but for example, guilt with the kids, more so, where it’s like I can’t, you know, I play with them, but I’m really just on the floor.”
H/T and transcribed by Wrestling Inc