Daniel Bryan was recently interviewed by Brandon Collymore to promote WWE 2K19. During the interview, Bryan spoke on a variety of topics about his wrestling career. Specifically, he was asked his favorite career moment.
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It turns out that Bryan’s favorite moment did not actually involve him wrestling.
Here is what Bryan said (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quotes):
“I think my favorite moment actually happened in Key Arena and it wasn’t even me wrestling. They were doing a championship ceremony with Randy Orton and John Cena where they were unifying the titles.
“It was supposed to be all about Randy Orton and John Cena but the Seattle crowd just chanted ‘Daniel Bryan’ through the whole thing. That’s super cool, but that’s not the reason why I love it most because that was the last time my dad got to see me wrestle before he died. So it was really cool because after that, it was the last segment on the show and afterward my dad ran up to the barricade and I got to give him a big hug and he was with his boss, right? So not only did he get to see it, but his boss got to see it and his boss’ wife was like, ‘This is Daniel Bryan’s dad!’
“My dad’s shy like me so he’s like, ‘Ah stop it’ and people were walking up to him like, ‘Can we get your autograph?’ and he signed it: ‘Buddy Danielson, Daniel Bryan’s dad.’ So he told me about it and how special it was but when I really knew it was special to him was when he told it to my sister and my sister was like, ‘Dad just talked about it for forty-five minutes about how — because he had never gotten to see me get that kind of reaction before — and I think as a father and me as a father now it’s like that holds a special place in my heart.”
Pretty awesome.
On a related note, Daniel Bryan recently shared how he felt about working with Big Cass. You can read his comments here.