10 WWE Wrestlers Who Must Also Join AEW
3. Daniel Bryan
In a mid-2018 interview with Gorilla Position, Daniel Bryan posited the prospect of working with The Miz at the following year's WrestleMania, before laughing off his own suggestion that the company could have an angle last longer than a month or so and still matter.
In the era for WWE of trusting the workers rather than the process, it's a problem he was typically wise to be cynical about. Bayley and Sasha Banks have carried 2020 with a slow-burning split that got going around Royal Rumble time and has made it at least to the end of September without a payoff match, but it's never been easier to summon one of those rule-proving exceptions. Miz and Bryan could have been that, but WWE just didn't seem to care that much about extending it and that clearly rubbed off on the talents.
Where might that not be the case?
In its short lifespan, All Elite Wrestling has shown patience with several key stories, not least when the in-ringwork more than holds up to support it. Bryan the polymath could fit as an action, comedy or dramatic star on either side of the heel/babyface divide, and would surely get a story or two that would only be a laughing matter if they were supposed to be.