Bryan Danielson on the difference between AEW and WWE

Jun 8, 2024 - by Steve Gerweck

Bryan Danielson on why he joined AEW and the difference between AEW and WWE:

“This is one of the things that drew me to AEW and why I kinda wanted to come to AEW is that AEW is like a wrestling first company; it’s a wrestling company for wrestling fans, sometimes WWE is more based on general entertainment, they wanna reach as many casual viewers as possible, where I think AEW is like ‘hey if you love wrestling, here’s this’ but also like even if you’re not a wrestling fan…we’re putting on wrestling and the wrestling itself is gonna bring you in, you know what I mean, and I think that’s one of the really unique things about AEW if you were to do a comparison of the two, like just watching the shows, you’ll see that there’s a lot more wrestling in the two hours of Dynamite than there is even in a three hour RAW, and sometimes there’s more wrestling on an AEW Dynamite show than there is on WWE RAW and SmackDown combined.”

(via 6abc)

5 Responses

  1. VanillaGorilla says:

    AEW: Where the real wrestlers go! Chin lock, Suplex, Flamethrowers. Now that’s REAL wrestling. 🤣

  2. WrestleFan says:

    As compared to dumping liquid poop on someone, an elderly woman giving birth to a hand, and the head of the company faking his own death?

    Dude, if you’re trying to be a comedian, you’re failing horribly. 🤣🤣🤣

  3. Bestofbothworlds says:

    Arena
    Empty
    Wrestling

  4. Really? says:

    @WrestleFan: If you’re trying to contrast what the two companies are like now, maybe you could give some examples from, say, less than 15 years ago. Just putting that out there.

  5. Joseph says:

    @WrestleFan – While both companies are professional wrestling companies, the WWE refers to itself as sports entertainment and AEW refers to itself as wrestling. The WWE is entertainment based and AEW is wrestling based. The WWE can get away with going a little over the top because in the end, that’s entertainment. AEW has a man who puts a hex on people, a man who pretends to slowly and mockingly hit other people, and recently a guy who used a flamethrower. How is that rea wrestling? It seems more like sports entertainment. Maybe that’s because that’s exactly what it is. Sports entertainment.

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