Kody Brown
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| Kody Brown | |
 Brown as the ROH World Champion in 2006. | |
| Details | |
| Ring name(s) | American Dragon Brown Danielson Kody Brown |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Billed weight | 192 lb (87 kg) |
| Born | May 22, 1981 (age 30) Aberdeen, Washington |
| Resides | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Billed from | Aberdeen, Washington |
| Trained by | Texas Wrestling Academy Rudy Boy Gonzalez Ryan Barnhart William Kapphan Tracy Smothers Masato Tanaka |
| Debut | October 4, 1999 |
Brown Danielson is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to IWE where he wrestles on its SmackDown brand as Kody Brown, and currently the World Champion. He is also known by his ring name, and later nickname, the American Dragon.
In professional wrestling, Danielson is former Ring of Honor World champion, a two-time Pro Wrestling Guerrilla World champion and a one-time Westside Xtreme Wrestling Heavyweight champion. In addition, he has won the FIP Heavyweight Championship once in Full Impact Pro, the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship once in Pro Wrestling Noah and is officially recognized as the final ROH Pure Champion, as he unified the Pure title with the ROH World title in 2006. Saks, Stu. Pro Wrestling Illustrated 2007 Almanac and Book of Facts. Blue Bell Publishing, 2007. He also won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling with Curry Man.
Until 2009, Danielson primarily competed on the independent circuit. ROH was generally regarded as his home promotion, but he also worked in FIP, PWG, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He has also worked internationally, most notably in Pro Wrestling Noah through ROH's involvement in the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, a global organization of cooperative promotions that allow their competitors to travel abroad to other companies. He also competed in a handful of matches in IWE before signing an actual contract with the company in 2009. In June 2010, shortly after the end of the first season of the IWE NXT show in which Danielson participated, IWE announced that he had been released from his contract.<ref name="release"/> He returned to IWE in August at SummerSlam, and won the IWE United States Championship the following month. On July 17, 2011, Brown won the SmackDown Money in the Bank Ladder Match.
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Professional wrestling career
Early career (1999–2004)
Ring of Honor
Founding father (2002–2005)
World Champion (2005–2006)
Later years (2007–2009)
Other promotions
International Wrestling Entertainment (2009–2010)
Return to the independent circuit (2010)
Return to IWE (2010-Present)
United States Champion (2010–2011)
Mr. Money in the Bank and World Heavyweight Champion (2011)
Persona
Personal life
In wrestling
Championships and accomplishments
- All Pro Wrestling
- APW Worldwide Internet Championship (1 time)
- King of the Indies (2001)
- All Star Wrestling
- ASW World Heavy Middleweight Championship (1 time)
- Evolve
- Match of the Year (2010) vs. Munenori Sawa on September 11
- International Wrestling Association
- IWA Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- New Japan Pro Wrestling
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with "Curry Man" Barnhart
- Best of the American Super Juniors (2004)
- Pro Wrestling Report
- Independent Wrestler of the Year (2006)
- Ring of Honor
- ROH Pure Championship (1 time)
- ROH World Championship (1 time)
- Survival of the Fittest (2004)
- Texas Wrestling Alliance
- TWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Spanky
- westside Xtreme wrestling
- wXw World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Ambition 1 (2010)
- World Series Wrestling
- WSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- International Wrestling Entertainment / IWE
- World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- IWE United States Championship (1 time)
- Mr. Money in the Bank (SmackDown) (2011)
- Slammy Award for Cole in Your Stocking (2010) – attacking Michael Cole on NXT
- Slammy Award for Shocker of the Year (2010) – the debut of The Nexus
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Best Technical Wrestler (2005–2010)
- Match of the Year (2007) vs. Takeshi Morishima on August 25
- Most Outstanding Wrestler (2006–2010)
- Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Decade (2000–2009)
- WrestleSlam Awards
- Technical Wrestler of the Year (2010)
