WWE Backstage (June 2nd, 2020) - 6 Takeaways from this week's episode

#5 Daniel Bryan joins the show

CM Punk and Daniel Bryan

Bryan is one of the best performers of this or any generation. He's slated to face AJ Styles in the finals of the IC Tournament. He was asked about how excited he was and he said that he feels "like my career a lot of times is surreal. I meet these people early on in my career and then 20 years later, I'm still meeting them." Bryan also said that he still has "this very competitive inspiration for trying to be the best and performing at the highest level. For me, it's a lot of fun."

Punk and Bryan worked together during 2010-2012 in WWE. He remembered that "this is when we're doing stuff with the WWE Championships and we're not in the main event. The main event then was John Cena vs. my now father-in-law (John Laurinaitis)." He also added that he remembered "being in these title matches and saying 'let's go out here and show them'" and that "it was this point where the crowd was behind me but that only lasts for so long and you either get involved with something that keeps you going forward or lose the momentum."

Of pre-WWE life, Punk said you were always "challenging yourself and trying to be the best. He added that "WWE was always there and we always knew we were good enough to be there but there are a lot of hurdles of being on TV and being good and successful on the indies and being good and successful in WWE. It's more of an art for guys like me and him."