Not everybody inside WWE was impressed by a well-known AEW match.
On March seventeenth, 2021 Britt Baker and Thunder Rosa battled in a Lights Out Match, which grew to become the primary ladies’s match to essential occasion Dynamite. The bloody chaos was broadly praised by an enormous part of followers, however not everybody was impressed.
Apparently, whereas talking throughout a panel at SXSW, Bryan Danielson revealed not everybody in WWE was impressed with the match. The American Dragon was nonetheless with WWE on the time, and claimed some backstage described the motion as “horrible” and one thing they shouldn’t enable.
“There was a ton of hoopla backstage in WWE when Britt wrestled Thunder Rosa and it was bloody. There have been a bunch of individuals backstage saying, ‘Girls’s wrestling shouldn’t be like that. That is horrible. We might by no means do this.’
Besides, if you happen to’re speaking about equal rights, letting ladies go on the market and do issues that males do. That sort of match took Britt and ladies’s wrestling and AEW to the following degree. You’d watch it and be like, ‘These ladies are stars.’”
WWE Bosses Needed An Inside Monitor On AEW
Throughout the identical look, Bryan Danielson revealed Vince McMahon requested him about AEW, and what the corporate was doing that he wasn’t.
After being questioned, Danielson recalled watching a number of weeks of AEW tv with a purpose to report again.
The alternate got here whereas Danielson was working as a part of WWE artistic, earlier than he ultimately signed with AEW in September 2021.
H/t to Fightful