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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Bryan Danielson: Iconic Matches, YES Movement, Retirement, WrestleMania 30, Brie Bella

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Danielson (@bryandanielson) is a professional wrestler and announcer currently signed to AEW. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Houston, TX to discuss his new role on AEW commentary, if he has retired from the ring, why he left WWE to sign with AEW, the segment that got hijacked by fans, the YES Movement, losing to Sheamus in 18 seconds, winning in the main event of WrestleMania 30, if a Brie Bella return is possible, and more!

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0:00.0

Chris Van Bleed.

0:04.0

Yeah.

0:06.0

And bleed.

0:15.0

Yeah.

0:16.0

It's inside with Chris Dan Beat.

0:19.0

Well, great to see you.

0:20.4

Yeah, good to see you as well. Thank you so much for making this happen. Yep, absolutely. Our last interview, I looked it up 2013. Oh, my goodness. It was the day after you won the championship from Randy Orden and Knight of Champions in Detroit. Okay. And I was working at the CBS TV station in Cleveland. And you came in and I was like, where's the title? And you're like, oh, I don't even have it yet. Yeah. Remember this? I don't. So I remember the night of champions match. That's where the referee counted fast. And then they took the title away from me the next day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was us on the local news. Yeah, that's amazing. That's so funny.

0:57.9

Yeah. How were you adjusting to life now in this new role on commentary?

1:02.6

You know, it's been interesting because I wasn't anticipating being a commentator.

1:06.1

So I was at home and then they asked me to come in because TAS was getting shoulder surgery

1:13.9

and to come and do, you know, help out a little bit. And so, yeah. So the travel has been

1:19.9

difficult for me. That's one of the things I didn't expect because I've traveled my entire

1:24.7

adult life, right? It's no big deal.

1:33.4

But with my neck as bad as it is, all of a sudden, you know, you take that, it was almost, gosh,

1:37.5

it was like eight or nine months where I was only traveling maybe once a month.

1:39.4

I'd go to the pay-per-views and all that kind of stuff.

1:46.4

But yeah, the weekly travel has been a lot and it's just been made sleeping hard and that sort of thing. Is it tough on your neck just sitting on the plane the whole time?

1:49.6

Yeah, it's sitting on the plane.

1:51.0

It's also just like lugging luggage around, right?

1:53.6

So it's like, you know, I typically just have a carry on in a backpack or whatever it is.

1:58.2

But then it's like, yeah, being uncomfortable in the, in the chair,

2:05.3

this, you know, I have like a, now I've, you know, I've made some adjustments. So I have a cervical

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