Daniel Bryan Talks Not Being in Royal Rumble Match and More

WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan was recently featured on The Chad Dukes Wrestling Show. During his time on the show, Bryan and Dukes talked about a number of topics such as WrestleMania XXX, Bryan not appearing in this year’s 30-man Royal Rumble match, if other superstars have animosity for how over Bryan is, among many other topics.

When asked if any “frayed relationships” have developed because fans chant for him, while other superstars are wrestling, Bryan said the following:

“Nobody’s ever come up to me and said anything. Nobody’s ever come up to me and said, “Hey! I’m sick and tired of these people cheering for you during my match!” But I mean there’s nothing that you really can say, you know, it’s not my fault people are doing it. I didn’t start an internet petition to say “chant for me during everybody else’s matches” or anything like that. It’s crazy and that’s one of the beautiful things about wrestling. Man, people can just go out there and do what they want, you know what I mean. It’s such a unique art form in the sense that it’s, you go out there and it’s live and anything can happen and the crowd can do anything and you just don’t know what’s gonna happen at the end of the show and all that kind of stuff. It’s really fun and the crowd participation just makes it more unique.”

Bryan also spoke about his snub in the 30-man Royal Rumble match, causing fans in attendance to heavily boo the main event:

“It’s just interesting that they, that they would not allow me to be in the Royal Rumble. I knew I was going to have the match with Bray Wyatt and it was fun because I was actually doing a string of interviews, probably the Thursday before the Royal Rumble, and I kept telling them, “As of now I’m not in the Royal Rumble but I want to be in the Royal Rumble. If anybody can make any noise or any headway as far as me being in the Royal Rumble, I wanna do it.” Stuff like that is the frustrating part about wrestling. You just want opportunities. You want a fair opportunity to just go out there and do your best. So if you’re good enough to be in the main event, if you can do everything you need to do then hey, let me do that.”

To listen to the entire interview and view more highlights, click here.