Bryan Danielson: ’33 percent chance’ Tony Khan lets me do NJPW G1

As Lloyd Christmas once famously said in Dumb and Dumber, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance.”

AEW World title challenger Bryan Danielson talked about Tony Khan’s recent comments that it would be difficult for him to compete in the annual NJPW G1 tournament, saying there’s a 33% chance the AEW head would let him do it.

In an interview with Uproxx to promote Sunday’s Revolution pay-per-view, Danielson estimated that his involvement would require him to be off AEW TV for four weeks and that people have to look at it from a Khan investment point of view.

“Does he really want somebody like me, who is older, to go through that many hard matches, be off of TV for four weeks, and potentially get injured? Probably not,” he said.

Danielson said he has a dream that himself, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and perhaps Eddie Kingston could all participate at the same time as “that would be just so much fun.”

However, Danielson thinks the odds of that happening are even lower.

“Now, if you’re asking me if Tony is going to let me go do a G1 and is it a smart move for him? Probably not, but the odds of him letting me do it, I would say a 33% chance. The odds of him letting me, Mox, and Claudio all be gone for a month off of TV — an astronomically small percentage. But, I haven’t even talked to him about it. So maybe with this interview, he’ll see it.”

In a mid-February interview, Khan said that in many ways, it would be great for Danielson to do the G1, but that “I think it would be hard for him to disappear from the show, especially if he’s the AEW World Champion. I’m not sure if he’ll be able to get away from the show that much.”