As noted, Bryan Danielson spoke with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated to promote this Sunday's AEW Double Or Nothing 2022 pay-per-view in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In addition to the highlights we previously published here on the website, "The American Dragon" and Blackpool Combat Club member also spoke about some of the talents from NJPW that he would like to face at AEW & NJPW's "The Forbidden Door" pay-per-view.
Featured below are some additional highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On Kazuchika Okada and Zack Sabre Jr. being two men he’d love to face at The Forbidden Door pay-per-view: “I would love to wrestle Okada. But in the back of my mind, I’m thinking about Zack Sabre Jr. and wrestling him to see who is the best technical wrestler in the world. We have two very different styles of technical wrestling. We wrestled in 2008, and he was just a kid, but I was super impressed with him then. He’s grown into this amazing wrestler, and I don’t ever recall seeing anyone wrestle with his technique.”
On other potential NJPW opponents he would like to wrestle: “There are a ton of guys I’d like to wrestle. You mentioned Okada, and that’s a match I really want. I want [Tomohiro] Ishii. Tanahashi and I wrestled in 2004, but we are totally different people now than we were then. That would be a lot of fun. Shingo and I wrestled in 2010. That would also be a lot of fun. I was hoping to get a match against Kenta in WWE, but it just never happened, and I would love to wrestle him. I’d also love to wrestle [Katsuyori] Shibata. I’m open to whoever Tony [Khan] and New Japan want me to go up against.”
Check out the complete interview at SI.com.
