"He's never gone over 30" - Bryan Danielson says it was his idea to wrestle one hour match against former world champion
Former WWE World Champion and current AEW star Bryan Danielson was recently a guest on My Mom's Basement hosted by Robbie Fox. During their conversation, Danielson discussed his one-hour long title match against former AEW World Champion 'Hangman' Adam Page and revealed that it had been his idea to go an hour.
Bryan Danielson called the one-hour draw against Hangman Page one of his proudest moments in AEW, adding that he himself hadn't gone an hour in a while, plus it was also the first time Hangman had wrestled a match that went over 30 minutes.
It was also the first time Danielson had wrestled Hangman Page:
The hour-draw with Hangman Page [is one of my proudest AEW moments]. I mean, I think and especially… I don’t think he’d done a singles match over 30 minutes and I hadn’t done an hour-long match in many, many years. It’s been many moons since I’ve done an hour draw or an hour-long match and I also wasn’t convinced with the way wrestling had evolved that people would enjoy it and because it’s a — it’s not ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
You have to be patient with it and patience isn’t necessarily something everybody has in bundles these days but, I was really pleased. I was really pleased with it. It was also like the first time Hangman and I ever wrestled so it was like, you know, that’s a bit of a daunting task like, hey, you guys have never wrestled before, he’s never gone over 30 minutes in a singles match. Why don’t you guys go do an hour? It was kind of my idea [Danielson laughed]. H/T: PostWrestling
Bryan Danielson returned to action at AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen
Bryan Danielson was supposed to face Zack Sabre Jr. last month at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door but had to pull out of the match due to injury. He was replaced by the debuting Claudio Castagnoli.
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Danielson returned to action last night against Daniel Garcia and despite losing, put on a masterful performance against the young JAS member. Former WWE star Jake Hager ended up costing Danielson the match, distracting Danielson at a critical point in the match. This gave Garcia the opening to hit Danielson with a piledriver before forcing the former world champion to pass out while locked in a modified leg lock.