During an interview on The Gorilla Position, Bryan Danielson discussed what it was like working in the WWE Thunderdome.
WWE used the sitting during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2021. Bryan’s last match with WWE came in the Thunderdome.
“I loved it. Because it was different. I liken it to the difference between theater and cinema, right? What we traditionally do is more like theater. But what we had to do during the pandemic was cinema… When Roman [Reigns] came back, I was like, he understood the benefits. You lose some things, but you gain some things. He understood the trade-off, and the direction he went was genius.
“I actually leaned into some of the old British wrestling… the sound and the physicality of it. You would actually physically hear like when they grabbed, and like all that kind of stuff. I thought, ‘Oh there’s a real opportunity to do that.’”
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