Bryan Danielson spoke about the famous segment involving The Miz from 2016 on Talking Smack and his intention of either getting fired or getting cleared by WWE.
Danielson appeared on a live edition of The Sessions with Renee Paquette at Starrcast over the weekend and discussed the well-remembered segment from 2016 involving The Miz. During the chat, he said the original idea was for Miz to push Danielson to the limit with his insults and that Danielson would punch The Miz and have a plausible explanation because of how intense they would get.
Miz was very frustrated, he was Intercontinental champion and wasn’t being on TV much. I was very frustrated that they weren’t clearing me to wrestle despite numerous doctors having cleared me to wrestle, and you know, I understand why but that’s a long story anyways.
So, we came up with this plan and the original thing Mike (The Miz) and I came up with was that I was going to f—king deck him. We wanted to get under each other’s skin so much that it was plausible that I would legit be angry enough to punch him and so, that was the intent. And then I was going to punch him, and the idea was either they’re going to fire me or it’s going to make people want to see the match so much that they’re going to have to clear me to wrestle but then Mike did such a great job – intuitively, I felt was better to walk off. Because it was like, God, this is so good leave him with his heat. He was so good. He was magic.
Danielson was eventually cleared in March 2018 and would have a feud with The Miz during his comeback.
