NJPW star Rocky Romero recently joined Keepin It Strong Style to give his thoughts on the Bryan Danielson and Kazuchika Okada matchup that took place at Forbidden Door 2 back in June, a match that the American Dragon won by submission. However, Danielson would suffer a broken arm in the match and has been on the sideline ever since.
Despite Danielson breaking his arm Romero thinks that the matchup was fantastic, and that both men left a lot more of the story to be told, so a rematch would make sense.
It’s unfortunate that Bryan broke his arm halfway through because obviously, it was still a great match, and what I do love though is the fact that with that ending, there’s more that you can do with that story, whether it be at Forbidden Door next year or wherever it goes. I feel like they haven’t hit their pinnacle yet. It was like the perfect first-time meeting. That’s exactly what a first-time meeting should be between two major wrestlers, and leave a little on the table, a little meat on the bone, so that you can really go in on the next one. I don’t know when that will be, but I hope that happens in the next year or so. Obviously, Bryan had a hard style, and I feel like it’s starting to catch up a little bit, so sooner is better than later.
He goes on to explain why the rematch should happen in Japan.
I would love to see that happen in Japan because they’ll just have so much more space to do what they want to do and how they’ll do it and how the fans will react. Forbidden Door is pretty special when it comes to fan reactions because it’s the most hardcore fans watching the product, who love both products or really love wrestling. Not to take away from that, but I feel like there’s something special about the aura of Japan and them meeting in Japan and how they would probably structure their match and do their match compared to how they would do it for an American crowd. So yeah, that would be nuts to have Bryan on a big show or Tokyo Dome or whatever, if it does happen.
Last week Danielson did an interview discussing his broken arm and why he didn’t feel too bad about it when the match was happening. You can read about that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)