Daniel Bryan's AEW Debut Reportedly Moved Forwards

AEW has reportedly decided to move the date of Daniel Bryan's company debut.

by Jamie Kennedy
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Bodyslam.net, who earlier broke news that Daniel Bryan was signing with the company, are now reporting that AEW plans to move Bryan's debut forwards.

Originally, Tony Khan planned to have D-Bry appear on the special 'Grand Slam' episode of Dynamite on 22 September. That New York show is set to be a biggie for AEW, so they naturally wanted to make it as huge as possible - there's also logic in spacing out Bryan's debut following the recent arrival of CM Punk.

Debuting them on back-to-back weeks of TV would've been senseless, basically.

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Now, Bodyslam's Cassidy Haynes is claiming that Dan will debut at All Out on 5 September. Haynes says sources close to the situation have told him that AEW is concerned by recent COVID-19 spikes and new restrictions that are being imposed on New York City.

So, according to him, Khan will now usher Bryan into the All Elite fold on pay-per-view rather than on free television. It's likely that AEW's rapid fanbase will gobble his debut up regardless of when or where it happens, to be fair.

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