William Regal has been friends with Bryan Danielson for many years and spoke about when while being interviewed by Daily Star.

Regal touched on the idea that Bryan was held down in WWE, which he doesn’t think was the case. 

He says that claim is a ‘nonsense myth’ and if the company did not want Bryan to main event WrestleMania, he would not have headlined the show.

“If you want to buy into that nonsense myth that people like to put out there – because it sounds like a good story – that he was held was held down in WWE, you are absolutely living in fairy land. If they didn’t want him to main event WrestleMania, he wouldn’t have main evented WrestleMania. The boss knew he had something special on his hands and he didn’t care about the narrative, he was going to see if he got there, and every test he gave him, he got there.”