Bryan Danielson comments on using "Final Countdown."
The phrase "Final Countdown" played a big part of AEW All In as Bryan Danielson put his career on the line against Swerve Strickland. The match had the tagline of "The Final Countdown," and has he's done for so many years, Danielson walked out to "Final Countdown" by Europe.
Speaking at the AEW All In post-show press conference, Danielson was asked by ITR Wrestling if he thought "Final Countdown" would be such a part of his career all these years.
"Honestly, I chose it as a joke. I was going to Japan a lot and I would pick up music magazines at the airport. They used to have these lists of best songs. They had the 100 worst songs of all time. I think number one was Final Countdown. I was going through and, I hate to say this, illegally downloading them on Napster. ‘Oh, I love this song.’ If it wasn’t number one (worst), it was top ten. I was like, ‘This would be awesome entrance music.’ I do a lot of things to entertain myself. I never thought it would catch on in Ring of Honor, let alone that 20 years later, I’d be doing it in front of 50,000-plus people and singing along. I don’t know if anybody has shown this to Europe. If you could, maybe they might bring down the price. It might get us a couple of buys," Danielson said with a laugh.
Tony Khan noted they got a good deal on using the song.
Danielson won the AEW World Title at AEW All In, defeating Swerve Strickland in the main event.
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