Big E Credits Bryan Danielson For Pitching His Singles Run In WWE
Big E gives a nod to Bryan Danielson.
Danielson had a small stint with WWE’s creative team at the beginning of the decade, where he did work for the SmackDown brand. As it turns out, ‘The American Dragon’ was the person to suggest a singles run for Big E.
“For the longest time, I didn’t even know if I was even going to sniff a world title opportunity. I’m so grateful, I’ve got to give a lot of credit, if it wasn’t for guys like Daniel Bryan, who was in creative at the time. He was the one who said, look, I think we should do something with Big E as a singles performer. When he gave me that opportunity and creative said, okay let’s do it, I took the IC Title off Sami. I dropped it to Apollo but after that, it wasn’t like cooling off, it was going from the IC Title to now, let’s get you moving towards Money In The Bank.” E told Westwood One Sports in a new interview.
Big E ended up winning the WWE Championship just a week after Bryan Danielson debuted for AEW.
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