5 real-life stories about Daniel Bryan

#4 He can’t swim properly due to Hideo Itami

Hideo Itami inflicted a serious injury on Daniel Bryan in 2007

Daniel Bryan credits Hideo Itami with giving him one of his best matches of his entire career – a 30-minute Ring of Honor battle in 2006 – but he also credits the man formerly known as Kenta with giving him a ruptured eardrum.

The new 205 Live roster member injured Bryan so severely in 2007 that he can’t hear out of his left ear very well. He also can’t swim properly or go underneath a certain depth of water due to the injury.

The two are still friends, with Bryan telling WWE’s official website in 2014: “The running knee that I do is a Kenta original that I learned from being hit with it from Kenta. He’s somebody who hits very hard and very fast. He’s just one of the most exciting wrestlers in the world.”