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Post by RKTaker on Jul 21, 2021 21:17:32 GMT -5
Goddammit AEW, y’all are really going to make me eat my stubbornness and have to deal with Cody and The Elite crew aren’t you? you could always just watch highlights of bryan/whoever you like on youtube if you don’t want to watch the whole show
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Post by fw91 on Jul 21, 2021 21:28:19 GMT -5
Goddammit AEW, y’all are really going to make me eat my stubbornness and have to deal with Cody and The Elite crew aren’t you? you could always just watch highlights of bryan/whoever you like on youtube if you don’t want to watch the whole show that's what I plan on doing at first.
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Post by RKTaker on Jul 21, 2021 21:33:10 GMT -5
you could always just watch highlights of bryan/whoever you like on youtube if you don’t want to watch the whole show that's what I plan on doing at first. yeah i men obviously If you liked Andrade, Aleister, Ambrose, Neville, Jericho, as well as Bryan (if he has indeed signed with AEW) that may be more reason to watch the full show but I would start with highlights then go on to possibly watching the full show but that' just me of course
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 21, 2021 22:04:06 GMT -5
If Bryan Danielson and CM Punk both make the choice to go to AEW, that is a huge statement. WWE should be very worried that two free agents of their calibre made the choice to go to AEW instead of WWE. It's one thing for recently released guys to join AEW, but big-name free agents is huge.
It seems a great fit for Bryan though. A lighter schedule with the possibility of adding to it by working NJPW, Impact, AAA, and whoever else Tony Khan has on speed dial. I can see it being very tempting for him.
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Post by BatPunk on Jul 21, 2021 22:45:05 GMT -5
There’s so many dream matches for Bryan right now. He’s done all he can wrestling-wise in WWE, he needs to keep himself motivated. I hope whatever deal he makes, it includes travelling around the world to wrestle whoever he wants, where ever he wants. Not to familiar with his Indy work- But would it be fair to say that Bryan Danielson is NOT Daniel Bryan?. American Dragon Bryan Danielson was a scary beast of a wrestler. I can only imagine a Bryan Danielson left to his own devices, with all his previous skill, along with what he’s learned from The WWE promotion machine, any wrestling fan that doesn’t tune into his first BIG match is really missing out. It’s not going to be like a Punk situation. As an in-ring performer, no one can touch Bryan. Not Omega. Not Okada. He’ll have at least 4 5* matches before the end of this year. These are exciting times.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 21, 2021 22:51:14 GMT -5
Goddammit AEW, y’all are really going to make me eat my stubbornness and have to deal with Cody and The Elite crew aren’t you? you could always just watch highlights of bryan/whoever you like on youtube if you don’t want to watch the whole show As someone who watches the whole show though? I can't see how you wouldn't have fun. AEW's a breeze to watch whether you're liking something or not because there is SO MUCH they do if one thing doesn't click then several other things might. Plus you can join the live threads hashtagdaley/JudasDay and we got good live threads! Guy does the captions! Mothman has turned Alex Marvez into an etherial being above this plain of reality! Y'know... normal stuff!
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Jul 21, 2021 23:00:15 GMT -5
Not to familiar with his Indy work- But would it be fair to say that Bryan Danielson is NOT Daniel Bryan? I don't think there's much of a barrier on that front. Bryan was an adaptable guy who got better over time at talking and presenting himself like a star. He definitely made his style punchier and more to the point in WWE, and his characters were usually more broad and less nuanced, but he's always fundamentally been the same guy and the same wrestler - one skilled enough to be very adaptable. His success in WWE is a testament to his having had enough sheer ability that he could reshape himself to fit into whatever system he was in while remaining fundamentally himself. An AEW Bryan Danielson would probably be less of a cartoon and more of a person, but the Daniel Bryan who main evented Wrestlemania XXX was still, in all the ways that mattered, the guy who held the ROH title for a year and a half.
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on Jul 21, 2021 23:10:55 GMT -5
you could always just watch highlights of bryan/whoever you like on youtube if you don’t want to watch the whole show As someone who watches the whole show though? I can't see how you wouldn't have fun. AEW's a breeze to watch whether you're liking something or not because there is SO MUCH they do if one thing doesn't click then several other things might. Plus you can join the live threads hashtagdaley/JudasDay and we got good live threads! Guy does the captions! Mothman has turned Alex Marvez into an etherial being above this plain of reality! Y'know... normal stuff! Yah, I’ll be live when this all goes down. Live threads make all shows more enjoyable.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 21, 2021 23:13:18 GMT -5
Not to familiar with his Indy work- But would it be fair to say that Bryan Danielson is NOT Daniel Bryan? I don't think there's much of a barrier on that front. Bryan was an adaptable guy who got better over time at talking and presenting himself like a star. He definitely made his style punchier and more to the point in WWE, and his characters were usually more broad and less nuanced, but he's always fundamentally been the same guy and the same wrestler - one skilled enough to be very adaptable. His success in WWE is a testament to his having had enough sheer ability that he could reshape himself to fit into whatever system he was in while remaining fundamentally himself. An AEW Bryan Danielson would probably be less of a cartoon and more of a person, but the Daniel Bryan who main evented Wrestlemania XXX was still, in all the ways that mattered, the guy who held the ROH title for a year and a half. Yeah as you said Bryan went through several character iterations in WWE and he never lost the crowd. He was either the biggest face or the biggest heel but either way they didn't care... he's got that special intangible that is so rare but so coveted. People come to see Bryan. He could go somewhere and be Toilet Man Bryan with a plumber gimmick and he'd find a way to get it over. I am sure Danielson in AEW would be a touch different... but Malakai Black just showed you can keep things relatively the same and it still works... especially when the booking let's it wotk.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 22, 2021 0:16:58 GMT -5
Look, all I'm saying is I want to get to the end of the G1 roster announcements for this fall and hear the NJPW voiceover announcer bellow "AMERICAN DRAGON...BRYAN DANIELSON!", and then I can fully rest easy.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 22, 2021 0:19:56 GMT -5
Man, That AEW game is going to have one helluva DLC. If they dont call It the "Indy Darling" Small Package,they are missing money!
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jul 22, 2021 0:21:46 GMT -5
After the Matt Hardy thing, I’m a little worried about someone as potentially fragile as Bryan in AEW.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jul 22, 2021 10:16:37 GMT -5
Sept 22, 1997 - Austin stuns McMahon
Sept 22, 2021 - Bryan stuns McMahon
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Jul 22, 2021 10:22:03 GMT -5
I will shed a tear when I hear a crowd the size of AEW's chant, "YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOUR f***ING HEAD KICKED IN!"
And then American Dragon Bryan Danielson kicks someone's f***ing head in.
Tears of pure joy.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jul 22, 2021 10:31:11 GMT -5
"YOU'REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WELCOME!"
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 22, 2021 18:31:59 GMT -5
Surely it would make no sense to use Final Countdown, wasn't that his theme specifically for leaving the indies?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2021 18:44:43 GMT -5
I'd definitely just make a new rock version of Ride of the Valkyries. Everyone would immediately know who it was for, it's going to be a lot more widely known as his theme than Final Countdown is, and at this point I really have a hard time picturing him coming out to something else anyway.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Jul 22, 2021 19:02:29 GMT -5
Surely it would make no sense to use Final Countdown, wasn't that his theme specifically for leaving the indies? Actually, he had been using it for quite some time before then. According to Bryan, he originally used it at a small indy show as a joke due to the limited selection of music the promoter had, and it just stuck. It's basically Bryan's "Enter Sandman"; you can't use it as an entrance theme without people thinking of the American Dragon.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 22, 2021 19:35:02 GMT -5
After the Matt Hardy thing, I’m a little worried about someone as potentially fragile as Bryan in AEW. That was a freak accident. Any other stunt AEW has done has gone off without any hitch or problems in the sense of wrestler safety. They got Christian, Sting and Matt wrestling and all of them have looked fine to great. I think Bryan would be ok. Not like he's gonna be put in the same situation as the Matt Hardy thing either.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 22, 2021 20:05:55 GMT -5
Surely it would make no sense to use Final Countdown, wasn't that his theme specifically for leaving the indies? Actually, he had been using it for quite some time before then. According to Bryan, he originally used it at a small indy show as a joke due to the limited selection of music the promoter had, and it just stuck. It's basically Bryan's "Enter Sandman"; you can't use it as an entrance theme without people thinking of the American Dragon. Yeah, his storyline back in 2005 was that he was disgusted with himself over not being able to win the ROH World title, so he "quit" around the spring, which was code for "is traveling for a few months and will be back in the fall". When he came back he was clean-shaven, wearing Bob Backlund-style tights, and entering to Final Countdown as his new theme, which he kept through his year and a half title reign and through the remainder of his time in ROH and the indies.
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