It’s fitting that Bryan Danielson came out to Europe’s “Final Countdown” before his AEW World Title win, and ‘The American Dragon’ certainly didn’t plan it that way.
Danielson partook in a bloody, yet technical battle between he and Swerve Strickland in the main event of AEW ALL IN in London for World Championship gold. The stakes were high and simple as Danielson put his career on the line to express his desire to win the World Title.
It was a back and forth match for the two while Danielson appearing to be dead to rights after Swerve unloaded several Swerve Stomps on the challenger. However, being motivated for the love of his kids, Danielson persevered and got the first submission win against Strickland to become the new AEW World Champion.
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During the media scrum sitting with his daughter Birdie, Danielson was asked by veteran journalist Keith Elliot Greensburg about walking out to Europe’s “Final Countdown” and if he ever considered how poignant those lyrics were for that night.
“Honestly I chose it as a joke. I was going to Japan a lot and would pick up music magazines at the airport and they used to have all these lists of best songs or whatever. Well they had a 100 worst songs of all time. I think #1 was Final Countdown…”
Danielson hated to admit it, but he was illegally downloading the list of bad songs on Napster. When he heard the song, he thought it would be awesome for entrance music. He did say it was surreal that over 50,000 people were singing along to the famous song, but hoped that it could lead to a heavier wallet for his boss, Tony Khan.
“I don’t know if anybody’s shown this to Europe, if you could, maybe they might bring down the price? It might get us a couple more buys.”
This championship win marked the first time Danielson has won the AEW World Championship since joining the company nearly three years ago.
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