Bryan Danielson reveals moment that influenced his decision to leave WWE for AEW

While speaking to TalkSport.com, Bryan Danielson revealed a moment that influenced his decision to leave WWE for AEW in 2021…

“We had a wrestler, Brodie Lee, who had passed away. They [AEW] did this incredible tribute show. At that point, I was still with WWE. And the way that they did that show — Brodie was my friend — it touched something in me and in my mind. I was thinking like, ‘Oh, these are the good guys of professional wrestling.'”

“There’s going to be times where we make wrong, or bad decisions, that happens everywhere. But one of the things that I like to think about AEW is that we try — and we don’t market ourselves as this — to be good. Tony Khan never says it. He never says, ‘We’re the good guys in professional wrestling.’ But that’s one of the things that I thought of when I was in WWE. I was like, ‘Oh, the people behind this, who are running this thing, they care about the wrestlers. They care about the fans, too.’ The one thing that I love about Tony is that he is a wrestling fan and he wants to produce a show for wrestling fans, or that wrestling fans will enjoy.”