Final week’s episode of “AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam” opened with the long-awaited rekindling of Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness, albeit with a slight delay. Particularly, when Danielson failed to look after his entrance music hit, McGuinness ordered the referee to start counting him out. A lot to McGuinness’ dismay, Danielson lastly emerged to the tune of “The Closing Countdown” on the referee’s rely of six. On a latest version of “Busted Open After Darkish,” WWE Corridor of Famer Bully Ray defined how he would have booked the build-up to this match utterly in another way.
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Firstly, Ray would have McGuinness demand that the referee award him the victory by way of count-out or forfeit since Danielson didn’t make it right down to the ring for his or her match. From there, Ray envisions an authority determine, equivalent to Head of Expertise Relations Christopher Daniels or AEW President Tony Khan, extending Danielson some leeway by declaring that the Danielson-McGuinness faceoff be moved to the closing phase of the present as a substitute.
“Is Danielson going to make it? That is the story all through the present,” Ray stated. “Is Danielson going to have the ability to make it to the match with Nigel?”
In Ray’s imaginative and prescient, followers wouldn’t have seen Danielson for the primary hour of the “Dynamite” broadcast. Later in a backstage phase with the AEW medical group, although, followers would have gotten a tease when docs advised an off-camera Danielson that they could not clear him at that second in time. “You by no means see Danielson, however you already know rattling nicely who the docs are speaking to as a result of there’s just one man on the present that must be cleared that night time,” Ray stated.
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As soon as the main-event mark hit, and Danielson has once more but to look, Ray needed McGuinness to order the referee, additionally but once more, to ring the bell and start counting Danielson out. When the referee counts as much as 9, “The Closing Countdown” then performs, with Danielson lastly able to wrestle.
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