Top Star Thought About Leaving WWE For ROH In 2018

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AEW star Bryan Danielson has revealed that he considered returning to ROH before the brand was owned by Tony Khan.

ROH was one of the most talked about US independent promotions in 2018, with the likes of Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks gaining popularity there before AEW was even a thing.

Speaking with Inside The Ropes, Danielson noted that when his WWE contract was up around this time, he genuinely thought about returning to the promotion.

Recalling conversations he had with Rhodes and the Young Bucks in 2018, Danielson said:

“It was really interesting, my contract with WWE was up in 2018, and I was considering going to Ring of Honor. I was talking to The Young Bucks and I was talking to Cody (Rhodes) just to see, and their contracts were all up with Ring of Honor.

“I was like, ‘Well what are you guys going to do?’ Even my lawyer, who doesn’t know anything about pro wrestling, he said, ‘Hey, I don’t think you should sign with Ring of Honor if these Young Bucks aren’t going. Because they have got this YouTube show called Being The Elite, I don’t know if you have heard of it, it’s essentially the driver of the popularity of Ring of Honor.

“So if those guys go away, we don’t know if Ring of Honor will still be as popular. Then with Cody’s contract coming up, if they leave and Cody leaves, what will Ring of Honor’s popularity be like?’”

“So that was part of the discussion. When you are looking at it in 2014, you don’t envision The Young Bucks starting a YouTube channel and it is going to become super hot and a catalyst for change in pro wrestling.

“You also don’t envision that even if there is someone with money who backs them and whatever it is, is it going to be someone who is really willing to be fully invested in it the way that Tony Khan is? So you could never have imagined it. But I think that given that, it’s really cool.”

Danielson is currently signed to AEW, another promotion owned by Tony Khan. He notably challenged for Chris Jericho’s ROH World Championship on the October 12 edition of Dynamite.

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