WWE Hall Of Famer Lied To Get Bryan Danielson Signed

One WWE Hall of Famer has admitted to telling a significant lie to try to get Bryan Danielson signed to a contract.

To the wider wrestling world, the legend that sits at the AEW Dynamite announce desk every week is Bryan Danielson. However, in the WWE Universe, that same man is known best as Daniel Bryan.

A world away in many respects from larger-than-life WWE champions of the past, Bryan rode a two-year tsunami of popularity all the way into the main event of WrestleMania 30 when he defeated both Batista and Randy Orton to capture the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

But all of that might never have happened had one Hall of Famer not gone to bat for him with a great big porky pie.

Mark Henry Lied To Get Bryan Danielson Signed By WWE

Speaking on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Mark Henry explained that he lied to WWE management after seeing a match of Danielson’s, as he believed the American Dragon was just as good as people already working in the company:

I didn’t train Bryan Danielson, I just saw Bryan on TV and said ‘hey, y’all need to get this dude,’ because I saw a match he had and I was like ‘this dude is as good as people we’ve got in WWE’.

And I lied, I told them he was like six feet tall because they wanted bigger guys, like 200 lbs, and Bryan’s 5′ 11” maybe. To have somebody that’s a Hall of Fame-calibre wrestler that you can hang your hat on is pretty damn cool.