AEW star Bryan Danielson is synonymous with memorable entrances in wrestling. His “Yes” chant got over big during his time in WWE as he came to the ring to a revamped version of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.” When he showed up in AEW, many fans expected him to revert to the song that he used early in his career, Europe’s “The Final Countdown.” Recently in an interview with Bleacher Report’s Chris Mueller, Danielson revealed why he doesn’t use the tune, instead using another reworked version of “Ride of the Valkyries” called “Born For Greatness.”
“Tony and I talked about a couple of things,” Danielson said. “We had talked about ‘The Final Countdown,’ but that was way too expensive,” he said. “I hate talking business stuff when I don’t exactly know what it was, but it wasn’t just the amount of money. They would only let [AEW] play it like 20 times a year or something like that. For several $100,000 you can play ‘Final Countdown’ 20 times a year. That doesn’t work for us. I had kind of wanted something a bit different, so I reached out to my friend, Elliott Taylor, and said ‘Hey, here’s an idea. But I don’t know if it’s any good. Could you do something like this?’ He dropped everything. I think he’s done 72 hours in the studio and made the song that I come out to now, which I think he’s also going to do a full-length release because it actually has like two chorus lyrics.”
“I really, really liked it,” he continued. “And it also incorporates a chant that people would do when I was on the independents. I kind of wanted to get it in there. I would love for people to start chanting it again.”
In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso, Danielson teased potential opponents at AEW’s upcoming “Forbidden Door” show. “I would love to wrestle Okada, but in the back of my mind, I’m thinking about Zack Sabre Jr. and wrestling him to see who is the best technical wrestler in the world. We have two very different styles of technical wrestling. We wrestled in 2008, and he was just a kid, but I was super impressed with him then. He’s grown into this amazing wrestler, and I don’t ever recall seeing anyone wrestle with his technique.”
“There are a ton of guys I’d like to wrestle. You mentioned Okada and that’s a match I really want. I want [Tomohiro] Ishii. [Hiroshi] Tanahashi and I wrestled in 2004, but we are totally different people now than we were then. That would be a lot of fun. Shingo and I wrestled in 2010, that would also be a lot of fun. I was hoping to get a match against Kenta in WWE, but it just never happened, and I would love to wrestle him. I’d also love to wrestle [Katsuyori] Shibata. I’m open to whoever Tony [Khan] and New Japan want me to go up against.”
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