Daniel Bryan Blu-Ray Review: 14 Interesting Observations

14. Bryan Was Trained At Shawn Michaels' Wrestling Academy

Most Daniel Bryan fans will be fully aware of his beginnings as a teenager who started wrestling training under the tutelage of none-other-than The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, at his Wrestling Academy in San Antonio, Texas.

While it might be common knowledge, it is still great to hear Bryan discuss his experience as a young man who made the decision to give wrestling everything he had, driving to the intimidatingly large San Antonio on the night he graduated high school, even though he had barely ever been out of his home state of Washington.

In the documentary, Michaels recounts how he told Bryan that he would be fighting an uphill battle in the wrestling business from day one, simply due to his smaller stature, but he goes on to say that it didn't take him long to realise that he was a special young man when it came to his in-ring talent.

The Blu-ray shows footage of Bryan and other Academy wrestlers, including Lance Cade and Brian Kendrick, learning the ropes. It also features Bryan's first try-out match with WWE, from a Smackdown taping in 2000, in which he teams with Shooter Schultz against Kendrick and Cade.