SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan recently spoke to TheWhig.com to promote WWE SummerSlam and more. You can check out the full interview here along with some highlights below.
Who he wanted to face before retirement: “What I really wanted was I wanted a match with Brock Lesnar, that was my thing. But I didn’t want to go into the match with Brock Lesnar (having) that be the first time I ever take a German suplex (following) my neck surgery. So, I wrestled Luke Harper and he German suplexed me on my head and everybody was like, ‘Oh my gosh, why did you do that?!’ ”
“It’s because I have this mentality of, ‘Well, I don’t want to go in there against Brock knowing he’s probably going to give me one zillion German suplexes and not having taken a German suplex before and not having known that my neck was going to be ok.’ ”
What he’s looking forward to at SummerSlam: “I’m really looking forward to SummerSlam for a lot of reasons. I’m looking forward to that and I’m looking forward to Dean Ambrose and Dolph Ziggler. I think Dean Ambrose has done a great job establishing himself as the guy on Smackdown, as much as you can within three weeks. And I’m really excited for John Cena and AJ Styles. AJ Styles is just so good and John always brings his A Game to big pay-per-view events. It should be a really, really fun show.”
His favorite SummerSlam moment: “My favourite for myself at SummerSlam was the 2013 SummerSlam. I wrestled John Cena in the main event and that was the biggest moment of my career up to that point. Being able to be out there with John, and SummerSlam, other than WrestleMania, it’s our biggest event of the year, so being put in that spot of main event an that sort of thing was really special to me. That was my personal favourite moment.”
