Bryan Danielson speaks on AEW's attempts to be good.
Since AEW was started in 2019, the promotion has gone up against WWE in more than a few ways, with stars from both companies making the switch both ways in recent years.
While speaking to TalkSport in a new interview, Bryan Danielson spoke about the 'war' between AEW and WWE, expressing that he feels AEW does't approach other companies in a warlike fashion.
“We as a company don't approach other companies in a warlike fashion, right? We don't feel like we're in a war with anybody. But that's not the same as the other side. We're constantly kind of on the defense in that. I don't know the right strategy, but I like the way Tony Khan handles things because that it in my mind, it makes us the good guys. But I don't know if at some point we need to go more on the offensive. I've had friends bring that up to me like, ‘Oh, you guys should attack.’ I'm like, wait a second. Like one, that's not my personality. Two, that's not Tony Khan's personality. And I think that's one of the things that drew me to AEW. When I was in WWE, I was watching the way AEW did things."
Danielson continued, stating that Brodie Lee's tribute show caught his attention while he was still in WWE, noting that it was at that moment he realized AEW 'were the good guys' of professional wrestling.
"We had a wrestler, Brodie Lee, who had passed away. They did this incredible tribute show. At that point, I was still with WWE. And the way that they did that show -- Brodie was my friend -- it touched something in me and in my mind. I was thinking like, ‘Oh, these are the good guys of professional wrestling’. There's going to be times where we make wrong, or bad decisions, that happens everywhere. But one of the things that I like to think about AEW is that we try -- and we don't market ourselves as this -- to be good. Tony Khan never says it. He never says, 'We're the good guys in professional wrestling.' But that's one of the things that I thought of when I was in WWE. I was like, ‘Oh, the people behind this, who are running this thing, they care about the wrestlers. They care about the fans, too.' The one thing that I love about Tony is that he is a wrestling fan and he wants to produce a show for wrestling fans, or that wrestling fans will enjoy.”
Elsewhere in another recent interview, Danielson spoke about his 'neck being wrecked'. You can read more about that here.
