I'm gonna take all drama out of it.
Punk was mega over and did not need the title (n in hindsight got hurt so it did nothing for anyone )
Danielson was on the clock , came in and had an amazing match w kenny. Imagine heel dragon smokes Hanger n Hanger has to make his way back up the card? Good shit. He'll u could have done punk Danielson after. Ah well
Agreed. Punk elevated anything that he was in so he didn’t need the belt right away and you had one of the best pure wrestlers on the planet come out of retirement and jump ship you put the belt on that guy. Danielson as a heel was also so great so it would’ve been great to see him shine in that light in AEW. Plus hangers downward decent would’ve been glorious and when you remove the drama like you said before his rise back up, would’ve been a lot quicker than when we got in real time and it would’ve actually elevated him when he got back up there.
And then like we’re both saying if they had given a time and a proper build Danielson defending the belt on pay-per-view against CM punk I think would’ve done AEW‘s Best Buy rate ever.
Especially specially since after hangers crash out, Danielson would’ve been their top heel and then you still have the most over babyface AEW would’ve had at that time in punk boom you’re talking, absolute money being printed.