10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Champion Daniel Bryan

By Chris Quicksilver /

Sunday 6th April 2014. Daniel Bryan jubilantly hoists the WWE Championship in one hand and the World Heavyweight Championship in the other. The look on his face is a mixture of abject exhaustion and pure, almost indescribable, elation. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Lousiana rattles and shudders to the approving roar of some 75,000 rabid WWE fans... It made for a future-classic WrestleMania moment, setting the diminutive €˜D-Bry€™ walking the same hallowed path as deified WWE icons of the past like Hulk Hogan, €˜Stone Cold€™ Steve Austin, The Rock and (Bryan€™s mentor) Shawn Micheals. Right now, it seems as if the whole world is talking about Daniel Bryan. ...But who is he, really? In my earlier article on Daniel Bryan, I called him €œthe funny looking, bearded and vegan face of the future€, as well as describing him as €œa bearded torpedo€ and €œa Human pinball€. Elsewhere, he€™s been likened to a goat, a hobbit and €œthe fightingest garden gnome ever seen€. All are very vivid and evocative descriptions, but they don€™t actually reveal an awful lot about the man. To casual or lapsed wrestling fans, as well as the world of mainstream sports, Daniel Bryan simply came out of nowhere, a bolt of bearded lightening that suddenly everyone seems to care very deeply about. Why are the fans so energized and excited about this guy? Where did he actually come from? ...And what€™s with those €œYES! YES! YES!€ and €œNO! NO! NO!€ chants? If you€™ve been wondering about any of the above, or you€™d just like to know who this Daniel Bryan character is, then this article is for you. If you already know everything there is to know, then read it anyway, because you just might enjoy yourself...