AEW: Bryan Danielson on Bryan Keith Being His Son’s Favorite Wrestler, Prince Nana on How Much It Meant to Him When Swerve Strickland Handed Him Embassy Robe at AEW Revolution 2025, More News

Bryan Danielson Comments on Bryan Keith Being His Son’s Favorite Wrestler & If He Wants His Son to be a Wrestler

A recent episode of The Nikki & Brie Show podcast featured Bryan Danielson as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about how “Bad Apple” Bryan Keith is his son Buddy’s favorite wrestler in AEW.

“His favorite wrestler in AEW is Bryan Keith, The Bad Apple, and when The Bad Apple comes onscreen, he’s like, “Ooh, daddy. The Bad Apple,” and so it’s like, it’s actually one of my favorite things right now is watching wrestling with Bud and him saying to me, “Daddy, who’s gonna win?” and then I tell him who I think is gonna win or whatever it is, and then to see his reactions to certain people and how much he loves different things. He loves when The Bad Apple comes on. Ooh, does Buddy get excited.”

Danielson also gave his thoughts about if he would want his son to follow his footsteps and become a wrestler in the future.

“I don’t know. I mean, you know, it’s hard for me to say because, you know, the first answer that would come to your head is, “What would be the benefit of having Bryan Danielson as your dad when if you’re trying to get into wrestling.” It’s like, “Oh, it opens doors,” You would think, but then that also creates expectation, you know? So, I would think, you know, I don’t necessarily, if he wants to wrestle, I want it to be because he wants to wrestle and one of the things that made me the wrestler that I was is that I had some people obviously help me open doors, but there were a lot of doors that weren’t open to me and I had to go and learn all these other things and explore these different paths to get to where I kind of finally ended up and that journey was what made it incredible, you know, and so I almost wouldn’t want to deny him that.”

Transcript h/t: PWInsider.com

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Prince Nana Comments on How Much It Meant to Him When Swerve Strickland Handed Him Embassy Robe at AEW Revolution 2025

A recent episode of F4WOnline’s Josh Nason’s Punch-Out podcast featured Prince Nana as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nana’s thoughts about how much it meant to him when Swerve Strickland handed him back the Embassy Robe that Ricochet had “stolen” from him after Strickland’s victory over Ricochet at AEW Revolution 2025.

“Oh man! There’s been other big moments too, but that moment right there was like the icing on the cake of why I am in this business and why I do what I do and why I wanna inspire people to continue their path and keep on pushing forward to just be better and just, like, that was it, all in that moment and when he got down on his knee — he didn’t say was gonna do all of that but when he did get down on his knee and all of that, it was not only a great moment for me, and it was just a great moment for professional wrestling period because I think it just showed that we can have a moment — not only just a moment. We can have quite a few moments like this with any type of individual who really, really wants it. Black, white, Chinese, and Swerve (Strickland) is proving that and you know, yeah, a lot of the people there, you might not see one particular group of people. Let me tell you something, people are watching all over. Every type of demographic, they’re beginning to tune in and it’s because AEW is opening up that reason to watch because hey, there’s people that I’m similar to on here and there’s emotion. These people, they really know each other? They got love for each other? Like, oh shoot so, that’s what that was and it was a big moment and I’m very appreciative of him and I wanna make more moments like that and just comes from being focused, listening to the fans and just following a vision of greatness. Everyone in that company wants to be great and I’m not only talking about the professional wrestlers. I’m talking about everybody, from the video people to the music people to the lighting people to the set designers. Everyone there wants to be great. Even the truck drivers. We’re trying to be great doing what it is that we do and bring some of that to the table here so, as long as that’s happening, I think we’re gonna have some more moments like that and it’s not only gonna be with me and Swerve. Everyone is gonna strive to have those type of moments now in AEW a lot more and there’s been other ones for other situations but that one right there is the big icing on the cake for the company in general…”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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AEW News & Notes

As noted before, this past Sunday’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featured the Young Bucks making their surprise return and helped cost Swerve Strickland the chance to win the AEW World Championship. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that many people within AEW did not know how long the Young Bucks would be absent from AEW television during their recent break. It was reported that several talents had pitched to work with the Young Bucks during their hiatus. In regards to the Young Bucks involvement in the Jon Moxley & Death Riders storyline, several of those spoken to stated that AEW officials had been planning that angle for some time while others stated that they had no clue about it.

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI, Kevin Knight gave his thoughts about his first two matches in AEW being against former leaders in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Knight stated “It’s like as I was coming into New Japan, they were kinda making their way out, so we never really cross paths, so it’s kinda ironic that my first two within the company was against two former leaders in the New Japan realm, so it’s kinda like full circle moment. So it was a great moment these last couple of days.“

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, Samoa Joe gave his thoughts about if he is the only Samoan wrestler not actually related to the famous Anoa’i and Fatu wrestling families. Joe stated “I mean, there’s a few. But it just became a funny thing because when I came up in the indies, a lot of Samoan guys who were around would kind of claim, ‘Oh yeah dude, I’m Rock’s cousin.’ And to me, I was always like, ‘I don’t want to be living off a family name that isn’t mine.’ So I was always real meticulus about being like, ‘Nah, I’m not an Anoa’i, but they’re an awesome family and they paved the way.’ But yeah, I was really kind of adamant, like, I was gonna make my own name.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast, co-host Jeff Jarrett gave his thoughts about him not likely being the mystery Wild Card entrant for this year’s Men’s Owen Hart Cup Foundation tournament. Jarrett stated “I’d like to say that, but I don’t think it’s in the cards for me this year. I’ve had some discussions a couple of Wednesdays in a row, I had a small discussion, I’ll just kind of leave things very broad here — but to answer your question specifically, don’t see me sliding in on this one, which in a lot of ways — People say, ‘Ah Jeff, are you disappointed?’ I got a few of those last night and I can honestly say that last year, how all of that kind of transpired and the respect I gained with Hangman and the Chicago faithful, last year’s Owen was special in a lot of ways. Me being involved in the finals with Bryan Danielson and then got the match after that leading up to All In, that was a really — It’s certainly top three, top four, top five series of moments that led and it all started with, ‘Hey Jeff, can you give us a few comments about Owen and what the Owen means to you.’ That’s literally how it started at a TV and Jay Lethal was ready to go, Karen was ready to go, and they were kind of waiting on me. Anyhow, the produce was great and I just had a flood of emotions come up but it all started right there last year. So, me not being in it, when I look at the seven — and Jay White had to [pull out], man, one of those guys that had the injury bug kind of creeping around. You still look at the competitors in there, it’s truly incredible. When you look on each side of the bracket, I’m gonna selfishly pull because I’m a huge fan after watching that cage match — Kyle Fletcher and Ospreay showdown at Double Or Nothing, that would be special. Who knows, but the Owen is stacked once again no doubt.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Way of the Blade podcast, Eddie Kingston gave his thoughts about his matches with Chris Hero during their wrestling careers and how they both do not go out of their way to speak to each other. Kingston stated “Yeah, I don’t talk to him. So we’re grown men now so it’s like, it is what it is now. It was over 20 years ago — f*ck me. It was over 20 years ago (Kingston laughed). But it was over 20 years ago and we’re both at different places in our life, you know what I mean? That we don’t have to think about each other. We don’t have to worry about working with each other, we don’t have to worry about seeing each other anymore, you know what I mean? Or, what did Eddie say? What did Chris (Hero) say? Feeding into that bullsh*t. We’re grown now. We see each other, ‘What’s up? What’s up?’ If he has something to tell me from the office, okay, that’s it. Because it’s a professional thing.” Kingston also gave his thoughts about his interest in having another potential match with Hero in the future. Kingston stated “No, I’m good (Kingston responded when asked if there’s an urge to wrestle Chris Hero again). I’m good. But here’s my thing, again, Tony Khan’s my boss, in one sense because I’m an independent contractor but I work for AEW. Tony Khan’s my boss. If my boss tells me, I want you and Hero, I’ll go, okay. I have no problem with that. Would I seek it out? No. Just like he won’t. Because we’re not at that point in our lives. But again, same thing too, if my boss said to Hero, hey, get in ring shape. I wanna do you and Eddie. He’ll do it because our boss — at that time, our boss told us to do it.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)

In a recent interview with the New York Post, Ricochet gave his thoughts about if he had tried to pitch his current heel character in AEW during his time in WWE. Ricochet stated “I mean, I’ve always tried to tell everybody about what I’m capable of and who, if I can be my true self, who that or what that can be. I think you saw glimpses of it in NXT when I first got there. I think you saw glimpses of the suit. I think you saw glimpses of the promos. I think you saw glimpses of the personality trying to shine through. I think you saw glimpses of it. Then 2019, I just got moved, and then I kind of got stuck in a resident superhero, and I got stuck in a weird position, I guess you would say. Heck, at the end of the day, I tried to do my best to show the world my own personality. But, once you get stuck in a position, you’re kind of there until they deem it different. No matter how many ideas you pitch or how many things you say or how many…I made videos. I made personal videos to put them on. I made, I did stuff. Until they really wanted it to happen, it’s just not going to happen. But that could have been literally any day. I’m not saying it could have been the next week. It could have been like, let’s use this guy. Let’s screw that. Let’s take it into my own hands and let’s, let’s allow me to be the one to introduce, my personality, my characteristics, my own style, my way, the way I want to do it, and let’s see if that works. If it doesn’t work, then that’s all me. If it doesn’t work and catch on, then I guess that’s my fault. I made a mistake. But as you can see, my way is the best way, really, and that’s really with anything.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)