WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan wishes he could step back in the ring.
WWE superstar Daniel Bryan won the world title in the main event of WrestleMania 30 in one of the most iconic moments in wrestling, creating a memory that will live long in the minds of fans.
The stars of today have a chance to make their own memories on Monday (AEST) as the 33rd annual event kicks off in Orlando.
WWE has gone through a metamorphosis in recent times as young stars emerge and a new era dawns.
Wrestling fans long for the glory years of The Monday Night Wars (WWF vs WCW) and seeing the likes of Stone Cold and The Rock at the peak of their powers.
But Bryan says WWE fans should be embracing a new legion, who he says is putting in some of the best performances he’s witnessed inside a wrestling ring.
“I honestly think the WWE in-ring product is some of the best it’s ever been, some of the most exciting it’s ever been,” Bryan told news.com.au. “Sometimes I watch it and think, ‘Man why didn’t I think of that?’ I’m watching AJ Styles wrestle sometimes and I’m like, ‘That son of a gun.’”
Unfortunately a succession of concussions has seen Bryan call time on his in-ring career prematurely. The former star is still a part of the WWE family though as the Smackdown Live General Manager.
It’s a role that affords him a front-row seat to the grand spectacle — meaning he’s well placed to judge the new wave of talent coming through. But it also makes him think of his own missed opportunities.
“There are tonnes of guys (I’d __like to wrestle) and for a tonne of different reasons,” Bryan said. “I really would have loved to wrestle Nakamura, not that he’s young, but we never crossed paths before, in the sense of being able to get in the ring together.”
“I’d love to wrestle AJ Styles in a WWE ring, but even someone __like Baron Corbin or Braun Strowman.
“Brock Lesnar too, never got a chance to do that — so there’s a tonne of guys I’d love to wrestle with.”
Bryan has a sleeper for the match that will steal the show at WrestleMania — and it’s a showdown that will be on the preliminary show and not the pay-per-view extravaganza itself.
“One of the things I’m really excited for is the Austin Aries-Neville match,” Bryan said.
“We (Aries-Bryan) wrestled the first time in 2004 and we once had a 76-minute match. So for him to be now in WWE in WrestleMania for the Cruiserweight title, I think that’s awesome.”
Daniel Bryan in action against Triple H at WrestleMania 30.Source:Supplied
‘IT’S AN ENERGY THAT WILL ALWAYS STAND OUT’
WrestleMania 33 will begin on Monday (AEST) in front of 75,000 fans in Orlando.
In 2016, over 100,000 packed into Cowboys Stadium for the sports entertainment showpiece, setting a new indoor attendance record.
But just what does it feel like to walk out and perform in front of that many people?
WWE star Dean Ambrose heard his first WrestleMania crowd at New York’s MetLife Stadium in 2013, when he made his debut as part of The Shield, alongside Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins.
The trio were being snuck out from a backstage area so they could perform their traditional entrance through the crowd. They were placed in a holding area waiting for the music to hit, signalling their entrance, but Ambrose says the wall of noise that met the stars was unlike anything he’d experienced before.
“We just walked underneath the stadium and came out but there was no music playing yet or anything — we were just getting staged,” Ambrose recalls.
“Once we got out into the stadium, there was this buzz, like vibration that you could feel, like literally feel in your body, when no music was playing, no nothing.
“It was just the rumble of 80,000 people. It creates such a physical buzz of energy that will always stand out to me, I will never forget it.”
A WrestleMania appearance solidified a dream come true for the former WWE champion, given Ambrose’s wrestling career was fostered watching some of the great WrestleMania moments in his youth.
“I liked the Bret Hart-Shawn Michaels Ironman match (from WrestleMania 12), it was one of my favourites. I used to watch that over and over and over when I was a little kid,” Ambrose says.
‘It was very impressive to me the whole Ironman thing and Bret Hart-Austin (WrestleMania 13), that was just a great intense, awesome match. Two of my favourites and standouts.”
The 31-year-old is entering his fifth WrestleMania and will defend his Intercontinental Title against Baron Corbin at WrestleMania, but there’s another match he’ll be keeping a close eye on come Monday.
“I’d like to see what kind of weird stuff Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton get into. I feel like it’s a very weird situation going on,” Ambrose said.
“Houses are being burnt down, ghosts, witches apparently, I feel like something cool is going to happen”.
Dean Ambrose knows what it’s like to be a wrestling superstar.Source:News Corp Australia
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