DANIEL BRYAN
Height 5'10"
210 lbs.
Aberdeen, Wa.
"No!" Lock
WWE Tag Team Champion; World Heavyweight Champion; United States Champion; 2011 SmackDown Money in the Bank winner
Bryan Danielson (born May 22, 1981) is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE and performing under the ring name Daniel Bryan, where he holds the WWE Tag Team Championship with Kane as part of Team Hell No. He has also been known by the ring name, and later nickname, the American Dragon.
In major promotions, Danielson is a two-time World Champion, as a one-time World Heavyweight Champion in WWE, and a one-time Ring of Honor World Champion.
He has also held the top championships of several independent promotions, as he is a two-time Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) Champion,a one-time Westside Xtreme Wrestling Heavyweight champion,and a one-time FIP Heavyweight Champion.
As well as these World Championships, Danielson also won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship once in Pro Wrestling Noah and is officially recognized as the final ROH Pure Champion, as he unified the Pure Title with the ROH World title in 2006. He also won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling with Curry Man
Until 2010, Danielson primarily competed in ROH and on the independent circuit. but he also worked in FIP, PWG, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He has also worked internationally, most notably in Pro Wrestling Noah through 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. He also competed in a handful of matches in WWE in 2003, before signing an actual contract with the company in 2009.
In June 2010, shortly after the end of the first season of the WWE NXT show in which Danielson participated, WWE announced that he had been released from his contract. He returned to WWE in August at SummerSlam, and won the WWE United States Championship the following month. On July 17, 2011, Bryan won the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match.On December 18, 2011, Bryan cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on Big Show to become World Heavyweight Champion.
DANIEL BRYAN