Daniel Bryan was recently a guest on The Bella Twins’ podcast. During the podcast, Bryan spoke about his match at the Elimination Chamber PPV, where he defeated Drew Gulak. Specifically, Bryan spoke about his wardrobe malfunction that happened during the match. Some photos went viral after Bryan was accidentally exposed during the match.
Here is what Bryan said about not realizing it happened until the next day (h/t to 411 Mania for the quotes below):
“So I didn’t find out about it because nobody backstage when I came to the back actually, ah — mostly, people were either saying ‘Whoa, oh man that was great!’ or they were concerned for my neck. Like, several people [were] very mad at me, concerned about my neck. [laughs] And so not a single person mentioned it. I went to sleep [that] night not even knowing that it was a thing. I didn’t feel anything, and you’d think because that’s a sensitive area, you’d think you’d feel a breeze or something like that, you know? But [that] night it wasn’t even a thing.
“It wasn’t a thing [next] morning until I landed, and I got two text messages from friends. And all my friends know, I’m the worst texter. I never get back or anything like that. So people stop sending you text messages. So that meant when I got two text messages from people saying, ‘Dude, I saw your balls!’ [laughs] I was like, ‘What?’ I didn’t know what was going on.”
Bryan on how he reacted when he found out:
“So your first reaction is a little bit of embarrassment. But then I just thought it was funny. Because for example, if your boobs come out … And then all these guys — I don’t want to say all these guys, but traditionally men — are like, ‘Boobs, yay!’ I didn’t see when I looked on social media, nobody said, ‘Balls, yay!’ [laughs]”
Bryan on the difference in wardrobe malfunctions between genders:
“Well so, it’s really interesting. Because that’s the reaction that women have [being embarrassed for the person]. And I think it’s because whenever it happens to women, it gets overly sexualized, right? And then so it’s like, ‘Ooh, I saw this’ or whatever like that … I think that’s the difference, is because people sexualize it for you guys. Whereas for me — and I wish it wsn’t this way, but it’s just like a ball-out. Nobody’s like, ‘Oh, I wan’t to see some pictures of balls.’”
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