-- After winning the 2024 Owen Hart Foundation Cup last night on AEW Dynamite, Bryan Danielson did a backstage promo where while speaking through pain, he shared what it meant to him to win the Owen Cup and to receive it from Dr. Martha Hart. He went onto heap praise on Martha, saying she is the kind of parent he aims to be.
"I’m proud of what I did out there. And a lot of this..I’m proud of winning The Owen because Owen Hart meant so much to professional wrestling. He meant so much as far as what it means to be a father in professional wrestling. What it means to put your family first. Right? That’s what Owen Hart means."
“But then also as Martha is shaking my hand and giving me the trophy; we call this the Owen Hart Memorial Foundation tournament but I’m just as proud to shake her hand. Because what she’s done as a mother all on her own and raised those kids and started the Owen Hart Memorial Foundation and all the good that she’s done...getting her doctorate...the people that her children have become. That’s inspiring to me. And that...not because I can’t handle it anymore, not because I’m not good enough....that because I want to be the type of parent that Martha Hart is. That’s why I’m stopping full-time wrestling."
"This is why I'm doing this. Everybody needs a f*cking why. And this is my f*cking why. I’m not going out because I can’t do this anymore. I want to show my kids and my family that I can be the best in the motherf*cking world. And I’m not stopping because I can’t hang anymore. I’m stopping because I love my family so much. We talk about Owen Hart. Tonight, I’m talking about Martha Hart. That’s the kind of parent I want to be."
