Bryan Danielson was recently a guest on Wrestling Observer Radio, where he spoke about the conversation he had with Vince McMahon before leaving WWE for AEW.

“Two things that aren’t related at all would be – I would be able to spend more time at home with my family and that I would also be able to bleed. I don’t like to divulge my conversations with Vince at all because I know he’s a very private person. But I will say this, one of the things….when I finally made my decision I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m set on this decision’, and he was kind of asking me why [leaving WWE for AEW] and I said, ‘You know, there’s part of me too that just wants to be able to bleed’ and he immediately said, ‘Well, I’m sorry I’ll never be able to give you that.’ So yeah, it’s not like I want to do it all the time. There’s something, I don’t know, incredibly life-affirming about it, as strange as that sounds.”