Daniel Bryan Says Wrestlers Can’t Say What They Want Anymore

In an interview with the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast, Daniel Bryan spoke about how wrestlers in WWE are more restricted in what they can say than they used to be. Here are highlights:

On not being able to say what he wants on Talking Smack: “Sometimes, yeah. I mean, sometimes, I just say things and then, sometimes in my earpiece it’s like, ‘why are you saying that?’ And then, it’s like, ‘oh’.”

On his goal with the show: “So my thing with Talking Smack is, I want our talent to look really good. So for example, Baron Corbin was on the show, not last week, but the week before, he was awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It did great and the key is the show is not about Renee [Young] and I, like, we’re just hosts – we’re just there to bring stuff out of people, to help them.”

On talent not being allowed to speak their minds: “The reason why guys could do that before, like, say in The Attitude Era, because it’s like, ‘yeah, fire me – I’ll go to WCW’ or in The Territory Era, ‘yeah, fire me – I’ll go to a million different places,’ right? Now, ‘fire me – actually, please don’t fire me.’ Literally, I’ve been doing this since I was 18 [years old]. I don’t know how to do anything else.”