Hall of Famer lied about Bryan Danielson to get him signed by WWE
WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry recently recalled how he had lied about Bryan Danielson’s height to get him signed by the promotion.
Long before his run as a part of AEW, Danielson, known as Daniel Bryan, was one of the top names in WWE. Recently, speaking on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Mark Henry opened up about how he had lied about Danielson’s height to get WWE’s attention toward him.
“I didn’t train Bryan Danielson, I just saw Bryan on TV and said ‘hey y’all need to get this dude,'” Henry noted. “Because I saw a match he had and I was like ‘this dude is as good as people we’ve got in WWE’.”
“And I lied, I told them he was like six feet tall because they wanted bigger guys, like 200 lbs, and Bryan’s 5′ 11” maybe. To have somebody that’s a Hall of Fame-calibre wrestler that you can hang your hat on is pretty damn cool.”
Initially signed on a developmental contract, Danielson stayed with WWE from 2000 to 2003, before returning in 2009 and 2010 and staying there till 2021.
Not wrestling anymore, Danielson currently performs as a commentator for All Elite Wrestling, with his last match dating back to a dark match on Collision against Max Caster on June 25th, 2025.
