Bryan Danielson Details The Differences Between AEW & WWE

Bryan Danielson has detailed the differences between All Elite Wrestling and WWE, noting that AEW is a "wrestling-first company", while his former employers are sometimes just centred around "general entertainment."

Speaking to 6abc ahead of AEW Dynamite's two-year anniversary show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Danielson noted: "I mean there's a litany of differences. But I think this is one of the things that drew me to AEW and why I kind of wanted to come to AEW: It's that AEW is a wrestling-first company; it's a wrestling company for wrestling fans. Sometimes WWE is more just based on general entertainment where they want to reach as many casual viewers as possible, where I think AEW is like 'hey, if you love wrestling, here's this.' But also even if you're not a wrestling fan, we're putting on wrestling, and the wrestling itself is going to bring you in."

The American Dragon also revealed that The Rock and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, two of WWE's biggest-ever stars, were his least-favourite people while he was in high school.

"If you were to do a comparison 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 WWE Raw. Sometimes there's more wrestling on an AEW Dynamite show than there is in Raw and SmackDown combined. So that's one of the things that drew me to it because as a fan, when I was in high school everybody loved The Rock and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin. They were my least favourite people because all they did was talk," he added.

Danielson is scheduled to be in action tonight on Dynamite and he will team with Jurassic Express and Christian Cage against Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks and Adam Cole of The Elite.