Daniel Bryan: ‘Being SmackDown GM Has Made My Wrestling Itch Worse’

Daniel Bryan spoke with Yahoo! promoting SummerSlam. The highlights are below:

On whether being on the road has helped or hurt his itch to wrestle: “It’s kind of hurt it. It’s not the traveling part of it … I was doing OK, right. I was like, OK, this isn’t my jam anymore, I can’t do this. Until they had me sit out by ringside for a couple of matches and it’s just like, c’mon, I’m ready to go. That’s the hard part. Or when I go out to the arena and get such a great reaction. That’s when I want to wrestle.”

On if he feels responsible for smaller wrestlers in the main event scene: “No, I think it was a natural evolution. I think what’s happened is there’s so many hours of TV that’s put out there that people who are more exciting in the ring are going to be the ones that become more popular. Because of “RAW” being there hours and “SmackDown” two hours, there has to be more matches and longer matches. Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.”