Bryan Danielson discusses his why.
On the July 10 episode of AEW Dynamite, Bryan Danielson beat Hangman Page to win the Owen Hart Foundation Men's Tournament and earn a world title shot at AEW All In. After the match, Martha Hart presented him with the trophy.
In a digital exclusive, Bryan Danielson shared his thoughts after his win.
"It’s incredible. The emotion you get with something like that, it’s unlike anything else. What it means, what it means to me as a person, what it means…fuck, fuck. Sorry, the pain down my arm is just a little too intense right now. Fuck. Breathe, breathe, breathe. That’s what I meditate. I’ve got these shooting pains down my arms, and sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable, but you learn to do hard things when you’re uncomfortable. When I think of that, of winning the Owen Hart Memorial Tournament and what it means, going to the main event of Wembley at All In, I’m proud of what I did out there. A lot of this, I’m proud of winning the Owen because Owen Hart meant so much to professional wrestling. He meant so much, as far as what it means to be a father in professional wrestling, what it means to put your family first. That’s what Owen Hart means. But then also as Martha [Hart] was shaking my hand and giving me the trophy, we call this the Owen Hart Memorial Foundation Tournament, but I’m just as proud to shake her hand because what she’s done as a mother, all on her own, and raised those kids and started the Owen Hart Memorial Foundation and all the good things that she’s done, getting her doctorate, the people that her children have become, that’s inspiring to me. That, not because I can’t handle it anymore, not because I’m not good enough, that, because I want to be the type of parent that Martha Hart is. That’s why I’m stopping full-time wrestling. But one of the things that I wanna do before I go, this is important to me. This why I’m doing this. Everybody needs a fucking why, and this is my fucking why. I’m not going out because I can’t do this anymore. I wants to show my kids and my family that I can be the best in the motherfucking world, and I’m not stopping because I can’t hang anymore. I’m stopping because I love my family so much. We talk about Owen Hart. Tonight, I’m talking about Martha Hart. That’s the kind of parent I want to be, and that’s what this represents," Danielson said.
EXCLUSIVE! The WINNER of the 2024 Men's #OwenHartCup Tournament @BryanDanielson fights through immense pain to share his feelings on his road forward to Wembley and #AEWAllIn! pic.twitter.com/avX1sgNGE2
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 11, 2024
Check out Jeff Jarrett's comments on the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament here.
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