Since leaving WWE and joining AEW, it’s been hard to deny that Bryan Danielson hasn’t been one of the greatest wrestlers in the world today. Having had his career cut short due to injury once, Danielson is ready to make some changes to extend his career – and knows exactly what style will keep his career going for years to come.
Bryan Danielson Modelled His New Style After Minoru Suzuki & Yuji Nagata
We’ve already seen some of this new style from Danielson, namely in his matches against Hangman Page & Jon Moxley. It’s been more focused on strikes and submissions, and has lent itself to some of the best matches of 2022 thus far.
However, while the inspiration was clear to some fans – Danielson has now gone on record saying that he’s taken inspiration from Minoru Suzuki & Yuji Nagata. The following quote comes from the Wrestling Observer Radio, where Danielson recently had an interview.
”One of the things I think too is, I am changing my wrestling style a little bit to be more like Nagata and Minoru Suzuki as opposed to bigger bumps and that sort of thing.
The heavier bump taking style, you’re less likely to have a long career with that as opposed to a hard-hitting style where Nagata will be in hard-hitting wars, but he’s not doing necessarily the top rope dragon suplexes and that stuff, which is the stuff that potentially….when you talk to Edge, it’s those ladder matches and big things that may have taken years off his career.
That’s what I’m looking at now, from a longevity perspective, but also from a perspective of, when my son is 15 years old, I’m going to be 55 and I want to be able to do all the things you do with a teenager if he wants to play baseball or wrestle, I want to be able to roughhouse with him. ”
Minoru Suzuki is set to main event tonight’s New Japan Pro Wrestling show at 53 years old against Hiromu Takahashi – and has many more main events in his future. Hopefully in thirteen years – we will be able to say the same things about Danielson. Currently, Danielson is working in the tag team division of AEW. His partner is Jon Moxley, and is managed by William Regal.
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