Bryan Danielson will at all times have folks he needs to wrestle for the primary time.
The American Dragon ended his full-time profession as a wrestler at WrestleDream this weekend. He misplaced the AEW Championship to Jon Moxley, simply weeks after profitable the title at Wembley Stadium at All In.
Nevertheless, he recorded an interview with Shawn Garrett previous to WrestleDream, the place Bryan Danielson was requested if there was anyone else he’d like to face within the ring. He talked about Japanese and Mexican legends, however contemplated if an artist is ever really completed in expressing themselves creatively.
“There’s folks developing on a regular basis. There’s at all times this key group of legends in Japan, in Mexico that I’d like to wrestle, that I by no means bought the prospect to wrestle. This yr I felt very lucky as a result of my favourite luchador ever is Blue Panther. I bought to wrestle him in the primary occasion of an Area Mexico present. In Mexico, that’s the centerpiece for Mexican skilled wrestling.”
“There’s at all times stuff like that, after which there’s the younger guys developing, who I won’t have even heard of three years in the past. Then you definately see them and also you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh. I’d like to wrestle that man.’ I liken it to this – does an artist ever paint their final portray? There’s at all times a brand new imaginative and prescient, there’s at all times one thing else you could possibly paint. There’s at all times a brand new music to be written. If that’s your chosen medium for the way you specific your self, which is how I see wrestling. That is how I specific myself, that is how I’ve turn out to be the individual I’m right this moment. Who I’m has influenced my wrestling, however how I’ve wrestled has influenced who I turn out to be.”
Bryan Danielson Needs To Wrestle Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy and Kenny Omega
Bryan Danielson continued, itemizing wrestlers he’d like to face, together with a rematch with Kenny Omega. The previous AEW Champion added that he didn’t need to retire utterly, as he grew sick of legends having their final match, earlier than popping out of retirement.
“There’s at all times that concept. For instance, I’ve but to wrestle Darby Allin. He’s from this space. I’d like to wrestle Darby Allin. I haven’t wrestled Orange Cassidy in AEW, I’d like to wrestle Orange Cassidy. Ricochet, who simply got here to AEW – I haven’t wrestled him, I’d like to wrestle Ricochet. There’s all this stuff, and there’s those who I’ve solely wrestled x variety of instances who I’d like to wrestle once more.”
“For instance, my first match in AEW, I wrestled Kenny Omega to a thirty-minute time restrict. We haven’t wrestled once more since. That’s a match I’d like to do. I’m from a technology who bought sick of individuals saying ‘That is my retirement’, after which they arrive again. That’s why I say ‘if I lose, this would be the finish of my full-time profession’, as a result of there’s all this stuff if I believe an excessive amount of about them, I get tremendous excited.”