10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2015
7. Daniel Bryan Wrestled More Matches In 2015 Than 2020...
...even though he was forced into early retirement by April.
WWE is not a place of middle grounds, and there's probably no piece of trivia more reflective of that than this bizarre statistic.
2015 and 2020 are years bound by differing extraneous factors that Daniel Bryan couldn't have controlled, but it speaks to just how relentless the WWE schedule was before - of all things - a global pandemic forced them into a dramatic rethink.
A fit and healthy Bryan wrestled 26 times in 2020, with the majority of contests coming following the March news that the world was headed into lockdown under the devastating grip of Covid-19. They were all televised, as was everything else.
Not so five years earlier. He more than doubled that total in 2015, despite the fact that he was thought to be finished forever mere weeks removed from WrestleMania. The 'YES' man wrestled 57 times between his Royal Rumble return and April exit.
There's surely a happy medium between such a relentless schedule and the weekly cycle the wrestlers have been confined to over the last year or so. That they almost certainly won't find that feels nailed on to be included in a Things You Did Know About WWE In 2021