So the "Aberdeen, Washington" hometown for Daniel Bryan has always set off alarm bells in my head as I mentioned earlier, and made me think that I may have known friends of his back in college. Finally, despite thinking I was being weird in doing so, I looked one of them up on Facebook and messaged him to ask if he knew Bryan Danielson at all. I mentioned that I always think of this friend and his brother whenever I heard D-Bry come out.
He replies:
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I do know him really well actually, I lived at his house, we were both in his wedding this past weekend
I thought, "Well **** that's pretty over-the-top, is he just ****ing with me?" But actually googling their names with him brought up a number of articles where they were mentioned as friends of his.
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The Backyard Championship Wrestling was a friendly wrestling league between Danielson and his middle and high school friends — Evan and Kristof Aho, Tony Sajec, Skyler Parker and Mike and Jake Dove — that allowed them to wrestle each other and create pro wrestling personas before they watched televised wrestling shows every Monday night in the 1990s.
I know three of the guys mentioned there from having gone to Washington State University with them. One of them actually showed me a videotape of this backyard championship wrestling back in Aberdeen, so I'm actually guessing that way back in the day I saw the high school version of Daniel Bryan getting his start.
Anyway, always enjoyed that D-Bry was local to my home state, but didn't actually know until now that back when he was a nobody, he was a friend of some pretty good friends.