Bryan Danielson On AEW Dynamite Having More Wrestling Than Raw And SmackDown Combined

Earlier this year Bryan Danielson’s WWE contract expired, and then he quietly parted ways with the company. The former WWE Champion stayed off the radar for a few months, but he eventually made his debut with All Elite Wrestling at the All Out pay-per-view last month.

Bryan Danielson has been making regular appearances on AEW programming since then and he recently explained some of the differences between AEW and WWE during an interview with ABC 6 Action News.

“I mean there’s a litany of differences. But I think this is one of the things that drew me to AEW and why I kind of wanted to come to AEW. It’s that AEW is a wrestling-first company; it’s a wrestling company for wrestling fans. Sometimes WWE is more just based on general entertainment where they want to reach as many casual viewers as possible, where I think AEW is like ‘hey, if you love wrestling, here’s this.’ But also even if you’re not a wrestling fan, we’re putting on wrestling, and the wrestling itself is going to bring you in.

“If you were to do a comparison just watching the shows, you’ll see that there’s a lot more wrestling in the two hours of Dynamite than there is even in a three-hour WWE Raw. Sometimes there’s more wrestling on an AEW Dynamite show than there is in RAW and SmackDown combined. So that’s one of the things that drew me to it because as a fan, when I was in high school everybody loved the Rock and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin. They were my least favorite people because all they did was talk. I like the ‘wrestler’ wrestlers.”