McGuinness also speaks about his dynamic with Bryan Danielson.
Weekly on AEW Collision, Nigel McGuinness is on the call as the color commentator. McGuinness brings his 12 years of in-ring experience to the commentary desk.
The former ROH World Champion has not wrestled in a sanctioned match since 2011. While guest appearing on Wrestling Weekly with Les Thatcher and Victor Sosa, he stated that he can still wrestle and got back in the ring ‘last week’ as of the podcast recording. McGuinness added that he felt ‘perfectly okay’ afterwards.
I think there’s a lot of similarities between your career (Les Thatcher) and I certainly… All the time that I was in WWE, how difficult it was for me and I think a lot of the… I don’t want to say the jealousy and the bitterness but those sort of emotions that certainly existed between me and Bryan (Danielson) and the success that he had. Obviously, when I was in WWE, seeing so many of my peers coming up and having that level of success and that level of fame and the fortune was very difficult for me certainly to sort of accept. Especially when I can still wrestle today, you know? I got in the ring last week and just felt perfectly okay. Sometimes, people say it’s a lot easier if you choose yourself to quit and I don’t think that it’s the case.
There was a point in the conversation when McGuinness touched on his dynamic with Bryan Danielson. He verbally goes after Danielson on commentary.
He stated that they’ve always had a bickering relationship and it has been like that since they met. Nigel said Bryan is intelligent but has some weird viewpoints and they enjoy being verbally combative towards one another.
What? Me not liking him (Bryan Danielson)? From the first time I ever saw him… We’ve always just had that sort of bickering relationship for whatever reason. I don’t know why. We always sort of tried to take the counterpoint whenever we discuss anything. Give him his due, he’s an intelligent guy. But he has some pretty weird viewpoints and so often times, we’ll just have a little bit of fun in a car or backstage just making fun of each other and try to argue the other point, whatever it happens to be, you know? So that started since we first ever met really… To this day.
AEW Collision is returning to TBS on 3/30 after being off for a week due to NCAA March Madness. The show is going to feature a quarterfinal match in the World Tag Team Title tourney along with Adam Copeland defending his TNT Championship in an open challenge.
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