Bryan Danielson on main eventing WrestleMania XXX: “It doesn’t mean that much to me”

Bryan Danielson said that main eventing WrestleMania XXX doesn’t mean that much to him in comments given to British tabloid newspaper The Sun.

Danielson, who thanks to the power of the Yes Movement found himself in not one, but two matches on the show and even won the World Heavyweight title, lamented the fact that his then soon-to-be wife was not allowed to come to the ring to celebrate with him.

“Honestly, it doesn’t mean that much to me. My sister and my niece got to come in the ring. But I was about to marry my wife the following Friday and they wouldn’t let her come to the ring, they didn’t want her to be in the thing,” he said.

His win over Triple H and then against Randy Orton and Batista in a triple threat match certainly was one of the biggest WrestleMania highlights ever but Danielson said that there could be moments in a performer’s life that makes a particular moment “not as valuable.”

“I was going through a ton of neck pain, and all these other things, so these things that seem like cool moments to a viewer, there’s all this other stuff going on in a performers life, that could make that moment not as valuable to them as it is to the people viewing,” he concluded.

Danielson got to celebrate with his wife and kids at All In at London’s Wembley Stadium last year when he won the AEW World title, recreating that 2014 moment 10 years later with a happier ending for the American Dragon.

“What meant the most to me about that match was my family being there. My kids got to see me wrestle, my daughter was old enough to be able to remember it for the rest of her life,” Danielson said about All In. “The idea of, you know, now I’m just essentially a dad…my daughter will remember this thing of 50,000 people at Wembley Stadium where her dad was cool!”