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During a recent podcast appearance, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion turned current SmackDown Live General Manager Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson) recently told some stories about sharing an apartment with former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida and Japanese pro wrestling sensation (who now works in WWE) Shinsuke Nakamura.
Bryan appeared as a guest on The Bear Hug It Out Wrestling Podcast and in addition to a lot of the WWE-related talk, he told this story about sharing living quarters with Machida and Nakamura.
“So, this is wild. Me, Shinsuke Nakamura and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together,” said Bryan. “Nakamura and Lyoto Machida had this weird rivalry, right? They just didn’t like each other. I was kind of like the peacemaker of the crew. I wouldn’t say peacemaker, but you could just see, like, Lyoto Machida didn’t speak great English. I mean, he spoke decent English and Nakamura spoke decent English, but just enough for the miscommunication. And they’re both stud enough athletes to be like ‘ugh, ugh’ and really get after each other.”
Bryan continued, “But it was great. Me and Nakamura had a great time living together. So he is not a big fan of sweets. I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I’ve had a cheat day. And some weeks I’ve gone really bad, so, like, I love cookies, cakes, that sort of thing, and so I introduced Nakamura to donuts. I don’t think he [has] ever had a donut. He’s like, ‘I don’t really like sweets’. [Bryan responded] ‘no! This is going to blow your mind!’ And I never met anybody like it who, he had a bite of the donut and he said, ‘ew, too sweet’ and I was just like, ‘what? What culture do you come from where you can ingest too much sugar?'”
Check out Daniel Bryan’s complete appearance on The Bear Hug It Out Wrestling Podcast by clicking here.