Recent AEW Signee Says Bryan Danielson Is Scared To Face Him At All In

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A recent AEW signee says Bryan Danielson is scared to face him at AEW All In.

In April 2023, Nigel McGuinness signed with All Elite Wrestling and started to work on the ROH TV commentary team. He then started working alongside Kevin Kelly on the AEW Collision commentary team when the show premiered.

McGuinness retired in 2011 due to medical complications, but when asked who he would like to have one more match against, he previously said Bryan Danielson would be the opponent.

Speaking on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Nigel was asked about doing one more match. He answered:

“The truth of the matter is, the only way I was going to come out of retirement was for a match against Bryan Danielson at Wembley Stadium.”

“It was going to take something like that for me to come out of retirement, because I really value my job doing announcing and there are so many other guys on the card that are so much better than me and deserve those spots, but in the right situation, I’d be crazy to not be open to that possibility.”

“Now, [Danielson] has gone and broken his arm. Let’s be honest. We all saw the x-rays, and one of those bones was perfectly okay. I don’t know how many bones are in the human body.”

“He’s got all of them apart from one, does he really need time off? He’s sitting at home, taking a paycheck, digging those clams out of the sand. He could be in there wrestling me.”

McGuinness continued on to explain why he thinks Danielson is scared of him, saying:

“To be perfectly honest, he’s probably a bit scared. It’s ironic isn’t it? Someone asked him that question in a media scrum and he was like, ‘I respect Nigel as a commentator, but if he gets in the ring with me, I’d break his neck,’ and he’s the one with a broken arm, and I never got a chance to wrestle him. That is karma.”

“I’m not saying he’d be scared of wrestling me again, he’s had a lot more experience than me, but I’m in as good of shape now as I’ve ever been. I’m in ring shape, I’m ready to go, but I can’t see myself wrestling at this point in that sort of situation at this point.”

“That’s the truth of the matter. It made me think, I remember when he said that ‘he’ll break my neck,’ I’m sure he can’t feel threatened, but it took me back to the match we had in Liverpool where he ran my head into the ring post four times, knocked me out damn nearly, and left me on the outside to get counted out.”

“I got back in the ring, and I will always remember the look on his face when I came up, covered in blood, ready to murder him. That look of fear.”

“That’s a look of fear that doesn’t disappear in 12 years, that stays with him for the rest of his life. To me, that sounded like someone who didn’t want the match to happen. You can understand why.”

It is currently unknown when Bryan Danielson will return from injury, but Tony Khan recently addressed his potential return date in an interview, which you can read here.

For details on the announced main event of AEW All In, click here.

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