Bryan Danielson’s path to the WrestleMania main event was anything but easy. There seemed to be some resistance to push Bryan to the top which also played out on TV. Eventually he made it to the main event of WrestleMania 30 where he won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship after facing off against Batista and Randy Orton in a triple threat match.
However, it doesn’t seem that WWE was sold on the idea of Bryan being the top guy as he recently explained to Uproxx that he was bluntly told him they don’t see him as such.
“After WrestleMania 30, when I had won the championship and just main evented WrestleMania, they had a meeting with me where it was like, ‘Okay, what we’d really like is to do is to set this other guy up to be the guy.’ I think the phrase was the next John Cena. And I was like, ‘I would like to be the next John Cena,’ (and they said) nobody can be John Cena.
“I literally just main evented WrestleMania, and you’re already telling me directly — and I actually appreciated that — that you don’t see me as the guy. That’s good for me because (I knew) this is what I have to overcome if I want to be that. I never got there in WWE as far as being the company’s guy. When Ric Flair talked about to be the man, you gotta beat the man. In AEW, that’s really how it is. To be the man, you’ve gotta be the AEW World Champion.”
Bryan Danielson will challenge MJF for the AEW World Championship at Revolution on Sunday, March 5. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
