WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan was interviewed by Sam Roberts and Katie Linendoll, as the two have started their annual WrestleMania media blitz. Stay tuned for more, and check out the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast on notsam.com.
Extra pressure at WrestleMania?
“I didn’t feel a lot of pressure last year. I feel a lot this year because we want to steal the show. We want to go out there and be the match everybody remembers. And that’s hard when you’re at WrestleMania and you’re not the main event.”
Did Bryan expect the fan reaction from the Royal Rumble?
“I knew this year. I knew going in – but you take your marching orders and you go out there, and you hope they know what’s best for the company. It’s turned out OK I guess.”
Bryan also noted he’s nervous about performing in an open-air stadium because a lot of time the noise gets lost, and it’s harder to tell how the crowd is reacting, positively or negatively, to a match.
Is he healthy enough for a ladder match?
“I don’t necessarily wrestle safe. I’m not like ‘OK I got my neck hurt, so I’m just gonna put somebody in a hammer lock.’ I like pushing it to the limit a little bit. I actually got in trouble two times in the last couple weeks, when I was wrestling Luke Harper and ended up getting suplexed on my head. But I’m constantly testing my neck. My neck is OK, but is it OK in a ladder match? We’ll find out on Sunday.”
