8 Wrestling Megastars That Started As Backyarders
3. Daniel Bryan
Like just about anything to do with Daniel Bryan, the story of his backyard past was impossibly charming despite the obvious violent undertones. Describing in detail his time with friends in their BCW (Backyard Championship Wrestling) promotion, the 'Yes! Man' hilariously outlined life between the 'ropes' in his WWE autobiography.
As he put it there; "The biggest development was when I found out that my friends had created their own wrestling league...Sometimes they'd wrestle each other but most of the matches involved Big Bad Brown, a giant teddy bear who was also their Champion. Before the shows started, we'd clear everything out of our family room and lay out a mattress on the floor, thus transforming the room into the BCW Area. Sometimes we would actually try to seriously learn the moves we'd seen on TV, but more often we would just be goofing off."
It wasn't all soft play though. Bryan noted that he didn't even tell his mother about their shenanigans, particularly after he broke his friend's jaw with a botched twisting senton.