WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan recently appeared as a guest on Chris Jericho’s “Talk is Jericho” Podcast and discussed how WWE has been doing everything that they can to stop backstage information leaks to dirt sheets when he revealed that leading up to his match at WrestleMania 34 that plans were in place as a backup if Shane McMahon couldn’t compete and that he didn’t even know what the plans were.
It was also revealed during the interview by Chris Jericho that the plan was actually for him to be Shane’s replacement if needed.
Regarding WrestleMania, Chris Jericho said:
“He goes listen, we don’t know if [Shane] can do Mania and he got someone to look over my schedule and we had a Fozzy show that day and originally when I was like, ‘why are we competing against WrestleMania? Why don’t we just do a combine it, we’ll do an earlier show, and let the venue buy WrestleMania and we’ll watch WrestleMania.’”
“He goes, ‘I know you got a Fozzy show and you’re watching WrestleMania with your fans. But what would you think about coming to New Orleans if Shane can’t do it?’ Do you know anything about this?”
Daniel Bryan responded to Jericho by commenting on the “new era” backstage in WWE where information and plans are kept very secret, and that even the workers are not made aware of what’s really going on because WWE doesn’t want any inside information being leaked to dirt sheets or to the public.
Regarding backstage info being kept secret, Daniel Bryan said:
“It’s weird because we’re in this stage now where they don’t tell the boys anything. Right, so they keep all the secrets from the boys cause they’re afraid the boys are all talking to the dirt sheets and all that kind of stuff. And so I ask because Shane called me and told me. He said, ‘I’m in the hospital right now, I got diverticulitis while I was in Antigua and then when they were giving me IVs I got a staph infection from the IVs and then I have this hernia that’s coming out of my stomach. But don’t worry I’ll be ready for Mania.’ I was just like, ‘what? how?!’”
“So I was on my way to TV in the airport security when he texted and said ‘call me’ and all that happened. Then I talked to him and he said that and when I got to TV the next day I was like, ‘what are we going to do? Like certainly he can’t be wrestling.’ And they said, ‘well, he says he’s wrestling but we have a backup and we think it’s a pretty good backup.’ I said, ‘who is it?’ And then said: ‘We can’t tell you.’”
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(H/T our friends at Ringside.com for the transcriptions.)
