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Bryan Danielson
Born (1981-05-22) May 22, 1981 (age 43)[1]
Aberdeen, Washington[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)American Dragon
Bryan Danielson
Billed height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Billed weight185 lb (84 kg)
Billed fromAberdeen, Washington
Trained byTexas Wrestling Academy
Rudy Boy Gonzalez
Shawn Michaels
William Regal
Tracy Smothers
Bobby Eaton
Masato Tanaka
Grant McKee
Debut1999

Bryan Danielson (born May 22, 1981)[1] is an American professional wrestler, also known by his alias, and later nickname, the American Dragon.

In professional wrestling, Danielson is a three-time World Champion, having won the ROH World Championship in Ring of Honor,[2] (ROH) the FIP World Heavyweight Championship in Full Impact Pro (FIP),[3] and the PWG World Championship[4] in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). In addition, Danielson has also won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in Pro Wrestling Noah, and is officially recognized as the last ROH Pure Champion, as he unified the Pure title with the ROH World title in 2006.[5]

Danielson primarily competes on the independent circuit, currently with Ring of Honor as his home promotion, but has also worked in Full Impact Pro (ROH's sister promotion), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He has also worked internationally, most notably in Pro Wrestling Noah due to ROH's involvement in the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, a global organization of cooperative promotions that allow their competitors to travel abroad to other companies.[6] He has also competed in a handful of matches in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).[7]

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1999-2004)

Danielson's exposure into the business was as a backyard wrestler, competing in the promotion, Backyard Championship Wrestling (BCW), under his real name with the nickname, "The Dagger", and won the promotion's Heavyweight Championship.[1] After Danielson graduating from high school in 1999, he decided to pursue wrestling professionally; he initially planned on training at Dean Malenko's wrestling school, but, due to its subsequent closure, instead trained under Shawn Michaels at the Texas Wrestling Academy.[8] Danielson debuted in Michaels's promotion, Texas Wrestling Alliance (TWA), where he won his first professional championship, the TWA Tag Team Championship with Brian "Spanky" Kendrick as his partner.[9]

As Danielson continued to tour the country, he was signed to a developmental deal by World Wrestling Federation (WWF) to work in their developmental system where recently signed performers train and refine their skills before debuting on WWF's television programming, and was assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling (MCW). There, Danielson gained exposure, and was trained by WWF competitor, William Regal; it was during that time Danielson adopted his well-known moniker, "American Dragon".[10] WWF severed its ties with MCW in 2001, and Danielson was released from his contract, which allowed him to travel abroad without the hindrance of a contract.[11] Danielson returned to the company on later dates after it was rechristened World Wrestling Entertainment to compete on its secondary programming, Velocity and Heat, initially as enhancement talent before being allowed to compete in longer matches; he once wrestled future WWE Champion John Cena in a losing effort[1].

Danielson also toured Japan with the promotion, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) with fellow trainee from the Texas Wrestling Academy, Lance Cade, competing in several tag team matches.[1] He returned to the country after his release from the WWF, competing in Japan's premier promotion, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). In NJPW, he used his American Dragon persona, and donned a red, white, and blue mask reminiscent of a dragon.[12] As a part of the junior heavyweight division, Danielson had success in both singles and tag team competition in the company, the latter of which culminated on March 12, 2004 when Danielson won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Curry Man from division veterans, Jado and Gedo, on the Hyper Battle tour.[13] They ultimately lost the championship back to Jado and Gedo three months later.

Ring of Honor

Early appearances (2002-2005)

In 2002, Danielson joined the independent promotion, Ring of Honor, where he is acknowledged as a "Founding Father" of the company by fans,[14] as he was one of the wrestlers who made the company prominent during its inception, and competed in the main event of the company's debut show, The Era of Honor Begins, in a three-way match against Low Ki and Christopher Daniels.[15] He continued to have critically-acclaimed matches in the company that would last for extended periods of time with numerous wrestlers, including a match with Austin Aries that lasted for eighty minutes.[16] One of the more notable rivalries he had in the early years in the company was with Homicide; the two embarked in numerous matches with a variety of stipulations, culminating in a steel cage match at The Final Showdown, which was won by Danielson.[17]

At that time, Danielson had long been regarded as the best wrestler in ROH to have never held a major title belt; despite winning the company's inaugural Survival of the Fittest tournament in 2004, championship gold constantly eluded him. It came to the point where, in 2005, Danielson announced in the company's newsletter, the ROH Newswire, that he had quit ROH after being frustrated by his inability to defeat Austin Aries for the ROH World Championship. It was later revealed Danielson had become frustrated in general with professional wrestling and planned to take some time off to evaluate his career options.[18] Danielson had several dates booked in Europe and Japan, however, leading fans to believe that the periodical was likely a storyline claim for Danielson's absence during this period. In May 2005, rumors started that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling was interested in signing Danielson, and he also had some more tryout matches with WWE at that time, but none of these events led to anything, as he remained in ROH.[1]

World Champion (2006)

Danielson defeated James Gibson for the ROH World Championship at Glory by Honor IV by making him submit to the crossface chickenwing.[19] The rest of the year saw Danielson have many successful title defenses, competing against all comers, even those from other companies, such as Pro Wrestling Noah star, Naomichi Marufuji, at Final Battle 2005.[20]

After winning the title, Danielson subtly began to display traits of a more rogue-like persona, starting to behave more aggressively and threatening to the fans, as well as taking more liberties with the rules. Despite his rulebreaking character, he still remained a certain level of popularity with the fans, as well as his upholding of the company's Code of Honor, ROH's storyline rules of wrestler conduct, allowing him to perform as a more neutral character.[21]

At the beginning of 2006, Chris Hero, a representative from Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), invaded ROH, and targeted Danielson; this led to the two exchanging words over the Internet before having a match together with near the entirety of both companies embarking on an interpromotional feud.[22] Danielson became personally invested in this feud, and invaded CZW himself,[23] which led to him having physical altercations with a number of CZW wrestlers; Hero intervened to intensify the rivalry, leading to the two wrestling at ROH's Hell Freezes Over event, where Danielson successfully defended the ROH World Championship.[24] He soon participated in one of CZW's more popular attractions, a steel cage match, called the Cage of Death, that pitted ROH wrestlers against those of CZW in a ten-man tag team match that would have a man from each team start out in the cage, having one more random competitor enter into the match after an allotted amount of time, having occupied the vacant fifth slot on ROH's team. During the match he would turn on his team by assaulting his rival, Samoa Joe, before leaving the match and effectively abandoning his involvement in the animosity between the two promotions.[25]

Whilst entrenched in CZW, Danielson continued his string of successful title defenses: first against Prince Nana's contingency, The Embassy (comprised of Jimmy Rave and Alex Shelley), as part of Nana's reaction to Danielson's unwillingness to sell him his title.[24] The next major defense was against Roderick Strong at Super Card of Honor, who he defeated after almost an hour-long match[26]; the next night, he also successfully defended the title against guest-appearing veteran, Lance Storm.[27] As the interpromotional hostility with CZW heightened, Danielson would also defend against challengers from the rival company, who had signed an open contract for any CZW wrestler willing to challenge for the ROH World Title. Former champion, Samoa Joe, would also challenge Danielson during his constant defenses, only to have his match end in a sixty-minute draw.[28]

Ring of Honor, while having the ROH World Championship, faced the issue of having another title with seemingly-equal value to the title, the ROH Pure Championship, so Unified, Danielson and the ROH Pure Champion, Nigel McGuinness, had a match that would unify the titles; Danielson won the match by knocking out McGuinness with repeated elbow shots to the head, and unifying the titles.[29] Danielson received an injury in the following weeks, separating his shoulder, and tearing two tendons in that shoulder and another in his chest, leading to the next few matches of his to be canceled.[1] Danielson returned at Glory by Honor V: Night 2, and was challenged by a guest competitor from Pro Wrestling Noah, due to the two company's talent exchange agreement by sending Kenta, which saw the champion retain. At Final Battle 2006, Danielson's fifteen-month title reign would end after losing to Homicide, which would also have the former champion subsequently take time off from wrestling in order to heal his shoulder.[30]

2007-2008

On May 11, Danielson made his return to the company at Reborn Again where he defeated Shane Hagadorn and Adam Pearce in separate matches. On May 12 Ring of Honor filmed its first ever pay per view, Respect is Earned, which had Danielson team with ROH World Champion, Takeshi Morishima, to take on Nigel McGuinness and Kenta; Danielson's team scored the win, as Danielson made Kenta tap out to his signature submission hold, the Cattle Mutilation. Danielson made his return to contention for the ROH World title by defeating Nigel McGuinness at Domination, which would appear on the company's next pay per view, Driven.[31] This allowed him to, now as a heroic character, challenge Morishima for the title at Manhattan Mayhem in a losing effort;[32] he also suffered a legitimate detached retina.[33] Following a subsequent surgery, Danielson returned with intent to challenge Morishima once more, leading to a match at Man Up that had the referee stop the match due to Danielson being unable to respond to him.[34] Danielson exacted revenge, albeit by disqualification, at Rising Above against his rival by assaulting him before Morishima returned to Japan.

Over the coming months, Danielson worked with Austin Aries again, but as friendly rivals, having multiple matches with fluctuating outcomes[35] including a match on pay per view at Take No Prisoners, which was won by Danielson. The two would soon become partners in order for Aries to gain a measure of revenge on the group, The Age of the Fall, for wrongs committed against Aries, which had the two wrestle all members of the group in a series of different stipulation matches, as well as teaming together frequently to challenge members Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.[36]

As part of ROH's agreement with Pro Wrestling Noah, the company held a show in Japan on September 14 entitled the Tokyo Summit, which had Danielson wrestle GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, which saw him win the title. Following his victory, he was interviewed, and announced that Noah would allow him defend the title in Ring of Honor,[37] with his first defense being at Glory By Honor VII, defeating Katsuhiko Nakajima, a competitor from the Kensuke Office, another member promotion of the GPWA.[38] This would ultimately be his only successful defense, however, as he would return to Japan on October 13 to lose the title to Kenta.[39]

Following his title loss, Danielson would once again return to prior rivalries, mainly against Claudio Castagnoli and Tyler Black over contention for the ROH World title, eventually receiving a match against the champion, Nigel McGuinness, at the Rising Above pay-per-view, but lost. Danielson's former rival, Takeshi Morishima, returned to the company at Final Battle 2008, in a match billed as a "Fight Without Honor", which allowed both men to use weapons, which Danielson won.

2009

As 2009 began, Prince Nana made his return to the company in an attempt to reform his alliance, The Embassy; Danielson had himself caught in the crossfire, and was attacked by Nana's first hired hand, Bison Smith, who would randomly insert himself in Danielson's matches. Danielson retaliated attacking Smith, Nana and the other members of The Embassy, and it culminated in a tag team match with Smith and Jimmy Rave against Danielson and Colt Cabana, which saw the latter get the victory.

Ring of Honor made its national television debut with the program, Ring of Honor Wrestling, and Danielson made his television debut in the main event of its third episode by defeating Austin Aries.[40] The following episode to feature Danielson had him wrestle Tyler Black, which ended in a draw. This was the start of a rivalry between the two that was highlighted by Danielson's respect for Tyler, even claiming Black would be the top star in the future, with Danielson's antithesis being that would not happen for a while, leading to the two have many more matches that kept the notion of neither man truly being better.[41] At this point, as well, Danielson became more involved in trying to win the ROH World Tag Team title, so, out of respect to his rival, had chosen Black to be his partner.[42] The two attempted to win the title multiple times, leading to a conflict, dismantling the partnership.[43]

Other promotions

Aside from competing primarily in Ring of Honor, Danielson has also competed in a multitude of other independent promotions. One of them was ROH's sister promotion, Full Impact Pro (FIP). His debut with the promotion was at New Dawn Rising in 2005 in a losing effort against CM Punk, which led to a brief feud between the two.[44] Danielson's biggest success came in 2006 by winning the FIP World Heavyweight Championship,[3] holding the belt for eleven months before losing it to Roderick Strong.

Following his return from his injury in 2007, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) published a video of Danielson stating his intent to challenge for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, as the establishment that sanctioned the title at the time, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, was relinquishing the title back to the NWA.[45] A tournament was held to determine the new champion with Danielson making his way to finals, scheduled to compete face Brent Albright on September 1, but due to the eye injury he sustained at Manhattan Mayhem,[46] the NWA announced he withdrew from the tournament with and Adam Pearce replacing him; Danielson was appointed the referee of the match.

Danielson has also wrestled in the California-based promotion, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), debuting with the company in 2004, in a match where he teamed with Christopher Daniels against Ricky Reyes and Samoa Joe. He continued to appear in PWG over the next couple of years, winning the PWG World Championship in 2007, and holding it for six months before taking an eleven-month hiatus from the company. He made his return to PWG at the 2008 Battle of Los Angeles tournament. In May 2009, he made another appearance teaming with Paul London, referring to himself as American Dolphin in a parodied manner.[47]

In 2009, Danielson's contract with Ring of Honor expired[48]; this opened up Danielson to travel to other companies more freely while competing in his home promotion. He made his debut with Philadelphia-based promotion, Chikara to compete in their King of Trios tournament, which saw him team with Claudio Castagnoli and Dave Taylor in a contingency called Team Uppercut[49]. In the same year, it was announced Danielson would compete in Dragon Gate USA in their second show[50].

Persona

Bryan Danielson has spent the majority of his career without an overt character in favor of becoming popular with the fans through his monikers, signature mannerisms, and wrestling ability. His attire has varied, as well, with the majority of his tenure wearing a pair of short trunks,[51] but also ventured into wearing a mask for a time in Japan as an extension of his "American Dragon" persona.[12]

A notable part of Danielson's persona would be the mannerisms he performs during the course of his matches that include:

  • Danielson making his way to the ring with his entrance song as The Final Countdown; once in the ring, he stands on the top turnbuckle as he would sing the refrain along the with fans in attendance[52].
  • Applying a submission hold while the opponent gets a part of their body in the ring ropes, leading to the referee counting to five (not releasing the hold by the count of five would result in a disqualification); as the referee would be about to disqualify Danielson, the latter would release the hold, instructing the referee: "I have till five!"[53]
  • During his initial reign as ROH World Champion, tell the ring announcer to add an extra note about him pertaining to the current circumstances around his match; this was generally insulting the crowd or his opponent.

Personal life

Bryan Danielson was born on May 22, 1981 in Aberdeen, Washington. He has recently relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. Since moving to Vegas, Danielson had begun training in mixed martial arts at Randy Couture's Xtreme Couture gym[48].

During his time as ROH World Champion, ROH appointed Danielson the head trainer of ROH's Wrestling School replacing Austin Aries.[54] He relinquished the position to Delirious in 2007.[55]

Danielson has cited a number of wrestlers as influences to his style: Toshiaki Kawada, Mitsuharu Misawa, and William Regal.[56] He has also made mention of modeling his wrestling off of the work of Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit in his early career, then using Jujitsu as a platform to develop his own style.[57]

In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • "The American Dragon"[1]
  • "The American Dolphin"[47]
  • "The (self–proclaimed) Best Wrestler in the World"[1]
  • "The Dagger"[1]
  • "Master of the Small Package"[1]

Championships and accomplishments

  • APW Internet Championship (1 time)[59]
  • King of the Indies (2001)[60]
  • ASW Heavy Middleweight Championship (1 time)[61]
  • PWI ranked him #13 of the best 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008[66]
  • Pro Wrestling Report
  • Independent Wrestler of the Year (2006)[68]
  • TWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Spanky[9]
  • World Series Wrestling
  • WSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[71]

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