Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

[CWood2]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

If you can, get your hands on his first match with Takeshi Morishima from Manhattan Mayhem 2. Date was...8/25/07? I was looking for it online, but came up empty. Great great brawl. The four matches were really, but this was the best of them IMO. It's still one of the greatest matches I've ever seen, and one of the top three I saw live.

And for Matrix...you won't like him. No shame in that, everyone is different.

Correct on the date. Sick overall card with Briscoes/Steenerico 2/3 falls, Strong/Aries/Evans 3 way, and Pac vs. Davey Richards.

I would guess that the Danielson / Morishima feud really put Dragon over the top for the "e" given the drastic size difference and how quality all those matches were. Dragon's going to have to work with bigger guys on primetime, but none the size of Morishima (barring Show and Khali) ... so that must instill some confidence in his ability to transition. Kind of like the great match Sydal put on with Claudio on Ring of Honor PPV.

[Lintyfresh85]

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I think Punk is better. Danielson normally has the personality of cardboard from what I've seen though there's been exceptions (yes I know I already posted this in the other topic in the main forum):

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Thank you for that video... it just reinforced my hate for Paul London.

I'm excited for Danielson. If he gets sent to ECW for a proper slow build it'll be wonderful... hell, even Smackdown is a good landing spot. He just needs to avoid Raw.

I also believe Danielson is the last of Michaels trainees, is he not?

[TimmeH]

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I'm excited for Danielson. If he gets sent to ECW for a proper slow build it'll be wonderful... hell, even Smackdown is a good landing spot. He just needs to avoid Raw.

Anyone not named HHH, John Cena, Batista, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Edge, Ric Flair, or Randy Orton needs to avoid Raw. It's like a black hole for non-established talent.

[DTX3]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

I'd like to see him feud with the All-American, American.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

And for Matrix...you won't like him. No shame in that, everyone is different.

LOL, we'll see. I'll give him a chance for sure. I love how you knew whether I'd like him based on what you know about my preferences.

[GnarlyKing]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

Anyone not named HHH, John Cena, Batista, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Edge, Ric Flair, or Randy Orton needs to avoid Raw. It's like a black hole for non-established talent.

Yes. I think they've done pretty well with building up Kofi, but he's definitely the exception and not the rule.

[CarryTheWeight]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

I'd like to see him feud with the All-American, American.

Since Swagger has an amateur background and is an underrated technician in his own right, I'd love to see something like this. Heck, even a match with Shelton (who has a tremendous amateur pedigree that hasn't really been milked on WWE television) could be close to five-star worthy.

[Streets]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

LOL, we'll see. I'll give him a chance for sure. I love how you knew whether I'd like him based on what you know about my preferences.

From what people are saying, I doubt I'll like him too. My favorites throughout history have been The Rock (as a heel, but really liked him right before he blew up as "leader" of the nation), Angle (in the WWE when he was a preachy, dorky heel who could whoop your ***), John Cena (rapper gimmick), and Randy Orton (Evolution til present).

I like heels, people who break the rules, and people with a lot of charisma. Wrestling abilities are actually pretty low on my list, but I do like people with cool and quit hitting finishers (Love the RKO). I never liked Benoit, Eddie, RVD, Malenko, Batista, or anyone else without mic skills. I just recently started liking Punk once he turned heel and actually had a character I cared about. I'm glad that this guy coming over has so much of the IWC excited, but I'm not really interested in "The next Benoit".

[dan77733]

Re: Bryan Danielson finally making his way to the WWE.

If WWE uses Danielson like they are currently using Punk, then he'll be good but if it goes the opposite, he'll be another great talent horribly misused by McMahon.