Former World Champion Bryan Danielson has named the four wrestlers he can build a wrestling promotion around.
Launched in 2019, All Elite Wrestling has emerged as one of the biggest wrestling promotions in the world, arguably behind only WWE. Boasting one of the most stacked rosters in the industry, AEW in 2025 has some of the top emerging and legendary professional wrestlers, including Will Ospreay, Swerve Strickland, Kenny Omega, Adam Page, and many more.
Recently speaking to The Daily Star, former World Champion Bryan Danielson discussed the Jacksonville-based promotion’s roster depth and hand-picked four wrestlers from it to include in his fantasy new wrestling promotion.
“At this stage, gosh, I’d want Will Ospreay for sure. I’d want Swerve Strickland. I’m going to say four. Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega. I would want to kind of base my company around, those four people. Then there’s younger people who- there’s MJF, there’s Hangman. There’s like these people who I would want in the picture. Zack Sabre Jr. I would, I would get, because that’s my jam.”
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Last wrestled at the WrestleDream 2024 PPV against Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson recently discussed his retirement and in-ring return status.
Bryan Danielson Reveals Why He Signed With AEW
Parting ways with WWE in 2021, Danielson made his way to Tony Khan’s promotion later that year. In his tenure there, Danielson has enjoyed several memorable matches against some of the top names on the roster and is also a one-time AEW World Champion.
Recently speaking with Oliver Browning of TalkSPORT, Bryan Danielson discussed his decision to sign with AEW.
“We had a wrestler, Brodie Lee, who had passed away. They did this incredible tribute show. At that point, I was still with WWE. And the way that they did that show — Brodie was my friend — it touched something in me and in my mind. I was thinking like, ‘Oh, these are the good guys of professional wrestling’.
There’s going to be times where we make wrong, or bad decisions, that happens everywhere. But one of the things that I like to think about AEW is that we try — and we don’t market ourselves as this — to be good. Tony Khan never says it. He never says, ‘We’re the good guys in professional wrestling.’
“But that’s one of the things that I thought of when I was in WWE. I was like, ‘Oh, the people behind this, who are running this thing, they care about the wrestlers. They care about the fans, too.’ The one thing that I love about Tony is that he is a wrestling fan and he wants to produce a show for wrestling fans, or that wrestling fans will enjoy.”
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