Submitted by : Brad, 5/22/10
                                                         Parting Words from Bryan Danielson 

               Last Tuesday, I saw something that made me smile for the first time in a along time. It was nice to see Bryan Danielson talk for a little on NXT but what happened next I didn’t expect ; Bryan was able to speak about his time in NXT and WWE was dumb enough to give him a live mic. Bryan went off on the company and Vince McMahon about how things are run, addressed how he’s better than his pro The Miz, and addressed how he shouldn’t have to be all personality to get over with the fans.
              As his final act, he verbally attacked Michael Cole saying he’s “a parrot” and “a poor man’s replacement for Jim Ross” and he touched on everything I’ve been saying for a long time. Then Bryan attacks Cole beating him down to the ground before being taken away by security. I had a smile on my face that, as King would put it, would have to be surgically removed.
              Bryan Danielson has always been critical about the wrestling industry and how wrestlers of his build & style are portrayed. Danielson is what WWE should have looked into three years ago; the shoot-style wrestler. Why not?  They got a hint of it with CM Punk. Now I wonder if the WWE writers are going to follow up on this. I would like to see another guy who says “screw you” to the clueless status quo and being the self-made, not machine made, wrestler he is today.
               I always thought Danielson’s curse was he was born in the wrong era ; He would be better suited wrestling Bob Backlund or Lou Thez. Hell, I could see him in a feud with either David, Kevin or Kerry Von Erich. It pisses me off to no end that WWE acquired the most in-demand, highly experienced & hardest worker on the independent circuit and they put him in a group with guys that are a third his age & a quarter of his experience.
               However, the night he was “eliminated,” he said Daniel Bryan might be done, but Bryan Danielson, God knows what’s gonna happen to him. All I ask that the writers follow up on this and show a little sport instead of constant entertainment. You have a pearl in your hands that’s ready to shown to the world, don’t screw it up.