By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

WWE star Daniel Bryan does not want to fight professionally in MMA, even though he's worked on a lot of jiu-jitsu and kickboxing. He also does not have the "ambition" that Vince McMahon says his generation of wrestling stars say is missing.

However, Bryan says that's actually a strength because he's introducing a new value system in the WWE locker room.

"I love doing jiu-jitsu and kickboxing, I will probably never do and MMA fight, and here’s why: I am not competitive. So I love jiu-jitsu, I love going in, I love going on the mat, I love rolling the people, but I love doing it with my friends," Bryan told AlternativeNation.net in a new interview.

Paralleling Bryan's personal approach to MMA is how he views McMahon's memorable comment on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's live WWE Network podcast.

"WWE does this personality test with some of their more successful superstars, where they rank you on all of these scores, like your desire for power, and your personality, and all that kind of stuff. One of the things they ranked was ambition, and it’s funny, because in this personality assessment, I got the lowest score for ambition that the lady had ever seen. So they do it on a percentile basis, so from 0 to 100, I was in the bottom 1 percentile of ambition," Bryan said.

"It’s funny because the lady was like, ‘How on earth are you so successful given that you seem to have no ambition?’ I said, ‘Well, that’s where there’s a flaw on the test. I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.’ What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there’s some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.

"Our generation just wants different things than what his generation wants, and I think that’s a societal thing as well. There’s an older generation of people who say, ‘No, you guys should want this, you guys should want this, you guys should want this.’ Whereas our generation, a lot of us say, ‘No, we don’t want that, we want something different, and a lot of the things that you guys wanted, are the reason that the world is messed up. We need to change our value system.’ So that’s it, that’s a very different take on what’s going on."

Bryan said the key to bridge the gap between the mindset of Vince McMahon's era and his peers is "standing up" and presenting their viewpoint.

"People do need to stand up and say, ‘No, this isn’t what I want, I want to do this. This is me, this is how I want to present myself on television. This is how I want to be within WWE, this is how I view professional wrestling, this is what I would like it to be.’ People have to have the courage to come up and say that," Bryan said.

Bryan also said he does not want to fall into the old mindset of pushing through injuries to the detriment of his long-term health. It remains to be seen if Bryan still uses the damaging top-rope diving headbutt, but Bryan said he thinks he will work smarter after being on the shelf for eight months.

"I would like to wrestle as long as my body is physically capable of it," Bryan said. "I love what I do, I used to do this for very little money (laughs)... It’s very difficult to grapple with the idea of not being able to wrestle anymore, but you also have to come to the realization that this is a very physical business, and your body will only last you so long. So I would like to say that at some point I would have the mental intelligence, or maybe the mental support from my wife (Brie Bella) or somebody, to know, ‘Okay, it’s time for you to stop, because if you don’t, you’re going to have to replace your hips, your knees, all that kind of stuff.’ So I don’t know when that time will be, but I’d like to wrestle as long as I can, but at the end of it still be able to maintain a healthy lifestyle afterwards."

Regarding the future of WWE, Bryan is hopeful that Triple H is the right person with a new "vision" for how to present WWE's style of wrestling down the road.

"I have never actually talked to him about his vision for the future of wrestling, and that is actually something I should talk to him about, because we think a lot alike in a lot of ways. I like what he’s done with NXT, I think NXT is an awesome show. That last special that they did was an awesome product. I think Hunter is very intelligent wrestling wise, like he knows wrestling, he knows what works wrestling wise. I’m not exactly sure what are his ideas, and what aren’t his ideas within the WWE, but I want to say two of the most successful current acts that happened in the last year, like The Shield and the Wyatts, I think those are Triple H ideas, but I’m not exactly sure, as far as their execution and that sort of thing," Bryan said.

C.M. Punk would disagree on The Shield comment, as Punk claimed ownership of The Shield idea during his podcast interviews with Colt Cabana. Punk said his idea was Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Chris Hero, but WWE went with Roman Reigns in Hero's spot, then WWE took off with the concept.

Bryan continued about Hunter: "The only way I can really gauge him is by what happens on NXT, and NXT is a wonderful product, it might be the best wrestling product out there. I love watching that show, and I think they’ve chosen some pretty awesome guys to be the stars of that show: Sami Zayn is incredible, Adrian Neville is incredible, Finn Balor is incredible, Hideo Itami, who used to be KENTA, and I wrestled on the independents and Japan, he’s incredible. So they’ve got some incredible talent down there, and they’re doing some really good stories."

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