Bryan Danielson: Brie Bella Doesn’t Want A Singles Run If She Comes Back, She Wants To Team With Nikki Bella Again

Bryan Danielson speaks on Brie Bella’s future in wrestling.

Throughout the year, Nikki Bella has spent a ton of time attempting to rebuild herself as a top name for the women’s division in WWE. Brie Bella has teased a return of her own on multiple occasions, even saying that she has “one more run” left in her back in November.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Danielson spoke about his wife and her desire to return to the squared circle. Danielson also touched on Bella’s motherly instincts and how she wants her kids to see her in the world of wrestling.

“Yeah, only in certain contexts. She doesn’t want to come back and do a singles run or anything like that. If she comes back, she would want to do it with Nicole. But I think there’s something in her too, and I can appreciate this, because our kids see her as just a mom, just a mom, as if that isn’t the hardest job in the world. Part of her, I think, has a desire to have the kids see her in that light too. I didn’t realize it until later, how amazing my mom was, right in the sense of, okay, we didn’t have any money. She was a single mom. She was working two jobs, going to college. I don’t know if it was my junior year or senior year of high school. She was going on a walk with a friend, and she just collapsed from exhaustion. She had to be taken to the hospital, to the emergency room. She was somebody who probably needed food stamps, but we lived in a small town, she didn’t want to [use them], she was ashamed. She didn’t want to go to the grocery store and pay with food stamps, all these sorts of things. My mom is also an inspiration to me. She went to college, got her master’s degree in psychology, and ended up working with underprivileged kids. She worked with the Native Americans. She worked in the prison. She got attacked in a prison being in a room with an inmate. You think about that, and you think of like, okay, I grew up knowing I was loved. Which is like, okay, Brie and I can fail at everything else in this life, but if we let our kids know that they’re loved. But all of that to say, I don’t understand how my mom did it. Now I’m in amazement, right? Because financially, we’re doing okay. We didn’t have any of the financial stressors that my mom had, and she still made a lot of time for us and like I said, made us know that we were loved. With Brie, this whole mom thing, one day our kids will realize what a great mom she is. But it’s fun to see when they don’t appreciate it. So it’s like, I was FaceTiming her and the kids this morning, and then just our son being as wild as he is, and then our daughter and part of me, but you never say that as a parent. You never say, “Do you realize how much I’m doing for you?””

Elsewhere in the interview, Danielson spoke about the differences between preparing for a wresting match and preparing for commentary. Check out his full comments by clicking here.

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Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s) provided in this article.