AEW: Bryan Danielson on Blackpool Combat Club, Potential MLB Playoffs Preemeptions, RVD on AEW Debut

Aug 9, 2023

Bryan Danielson Comments on Hoping Blackpool Combat Club Never Breaks Up

Sports Illustrated held a recent interview with Bryan Danielson. One of the topics discussed included Danielson thoughts on Blackpool Combat Club staying strong together after William Regal left and revealed that they still kept Regal in their group chat.

“Our connection as a group feels real. That’s because it is. The story is we train together and we make each other better. The reality is that wrestling together, we do make each other better. Even when Regal left, we didn’t break, and he’s still on our BCC group chat.”

Danielson also gave his thoughts on his love of the group and being hopeful that they never break up.

“I love this group. This should be a group that never breaks up. Mox and I have wrestled since the BCC started, we wrestled in the championship tournament [last fall]. That didn’t cause any disturbances in the BCC. That’s the story of the BCC. When the BCC loses, we’ll shake hands and go back to training the next day.”

Potential AEW Programming Preemptions Due to Upcoming MLB Playoffs

AEW reportedly could be facing the potential of having up to three preemptions for their Dynamite and Collision shows on TBS and TNT during this upcoming MLB Post-season, according to PWInsider.

In regards to Dynamite, Mike Johnson reported that TBS currently has a two MLB Playoffs games scheduled to air on their network on Wednesday, October 11th but no games currently scheduled for Tuesday, October 10th. This reportedly would be the only potential scheduling conflict for Dynamite for MLB Playoffs coverage.

In regards to Collision, Johnson reported that the October 7th and October 14th episodes of Collision could potentially be preempted to a later time slot or be moved to TruTV for a live airing depending on the situation with MLB Playoff games that night. In regards to October 14th, MLB currently has games scheduled for this night as “If Necessary.”

Rob Van Dam Comments on His AEW Debut

As noted before, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Tampa, Florida featured ECW legend Rob Van Dam making a surprise appearance and official debut for AEW.

In a recent episode of the 1 Of A Kind with RVD podcast, host RVD gave his thoughts about his recent debut in AEW and how his surprise appearance at last week’s Dynamite show was kept as a secret backstage.

“It was a pretty good reaction from the crowd. I was concerned that the surprise would be blown because it usually is, and it didn’t get too far out. Even a lot of the boys were surprised, and they went through so much trouble to hide me. Even after we pulled into the garage, they put me in a wheelchair and put a black curtain over the top of me and pushed me all the way back to this room and I just had my own room, so I was like, ‘I’m not gonna fuck it up after they went through all that trouble’ and so I just stayed into my room until after my appearance. I was still seeing guys at the end of the night, Jeff Hardy and Matt and Brian Cage and they were still surprised. Everyone kept the lid on it pretty good.”

RVD also gave his thoughts about the backstage environment in AEW during his debut appearance for the company.

“Nothing bad, you know. I’m just trying to think of what I could say about it that would make it different. It’s not the big stressful production of WWE, it’s definitely not a small little indie show either. It’s somewhere in between, but closer to WWE. But when I’ve done TV for international shows that my fans wouldn’t know about, like in the UK or Australia, maybe I would [compare it to that] as far as like the free air, people are walking around genuinely happy to be there. I don’t know how to describe it as being… I can’t think of anything that was like, outstanding.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2