Bryan Danielson continues to make the media rounds to promote the AEW Double Or Nothing 2022 pay-per-view scheduled for this Sunday night in Las Vegas, Nevada.
During a recent discussion with Bleacher Report, the Blackpool Combat Club member spoke about getting his foot caught between the ring and the ramp on AEW Dynamite recently, laughing about it after the fact and more.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On how he’s laughing at himself for falling into a crack on last week’s AEW Dynamite: “I laugh at myself. It was my birthday, I just turned 41, I’m this old man who falls into these cracks and can’t get out. If you remember Steve Urkel from Family Matters, I don’t know if it was a regular thing he said, but all that went through my head was, ‘I’m Steve Urkel and I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.’ My ankle and just below my knee are a little bit swollen. I like physical things so even when I’m not wrestling, I like to do jiu-jitsu or kickboxing or hiking. I’m used to things being swollen. I took my kids hiking two days this week, but they are kids hikes, my son is not even two so it’s really just walking, and that was, ‘Okay, I can feel this a little.”
On how it is fascinating that when he puts his wrestling gear on he feels invincible: “I find it fascinating from a performer’s standpoint, the second I put my wrestling gear on, I feel invincible, no matter what is hurting me. I put my gear on and I’m ready to go. I’m looking at my ankle right now and thinking, ‘Uhhh,’ but when I put my gear on, it feels like there is nothing in the world that can hurt me. I know that’s not true, but that’s how it feels.”
On how he was laughing about it with Moxley and Kingston afterwards: “I was laughing after with Eddie Kingston and Mox. ‘Of course.’ This would have never happened at 28, I would have been very aware of my surroundings, now I’m just this old clumsy man who slips in things.”
Check out the complete interview below, or at YouTube.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
