Speaking at the AEW All In post-show press conference, Bryan Danielson spoke about whether he thought “Final Countdown” would be such a part of his career.
“Honestly, I chose it as a joke. I was going to Japan a lot and I would pick up music magazines at the airport. They used to have these lists of best songs. They had the 100 worst songs of all time. I think number one was Final Countdown. I was going through and, I hate to say this, illegally downloading them on Napster. ‘Oh, I love this song.’ If it wasn’t number one (worst), it was top ten. I was like, ‘This would be awesome entrance music.’ I do a lot of things to entertain myself. I never thought it would catch on in Ring of Honor, let alone that 20 years later, I’d be doing it in front of 50,000-plus people and singing along. I don’t know if anybody has shown this to Europe. If you could, maybe they might bring down the price. It might get us a couple of buys,” Danielson said with a laugh.
At the event, Danielson went over Swerve Strickland to win the World Heavyweight Title.
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