Bryan Danielson is no stranger to being a world champion. However, in the midst of his final year as a full-time wrestler, the veteran says he doesn’t want to be that position.
Speaking to Sports Illustrated ahead of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Danielson, a former WWE Champion, said he’d rather not be the world champion at this point in his career.
“I don’t want to be in that [world champion] position–I don’t feel like that’s my position anymore,” Bryan Danielson said. “The quality of wrestling in AEW is so high, it’s really hard to main-event pay-per-views. That’s not something my body can really do anymore. I know there are a percentage of fans who would like that, but I don’t think it’s my place.
“Here’s the truth: I don’t want anything to do creatively with my own stuff. I also don’t know where people get the notion that I do. It’s very hard in wrestling to be objective about yourself, so I leave that in the hands of other people.”
At AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Bryan Danielson will face Shingo Takagi in a first-round match in the Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament. WrestleZone will have coverage of the show as it airs on June 30.
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