Harry Daniels (RLS CAS)

Daniels at his UNION Wrestling unveiling in 2022

**Harry Daniels** *(born 11th February 1993 in London)* is an English professional wrestler currently signed to UNION Wrestling in his second spell, having previously appeared as **HD**, one half of the tag-team HDMC with partner MC.

A former promising upper mid-card talent, Daniels battled several issues in the immediate aftermath of his debut**1**, before rebuilding his career by "doing the pots" for UNION Wrestling. He is the younger brother of fellow wrestler Rafe Daniels.

## Career

### Early career (2010-2015)

Receiving training from a young age from elder brother Rafe, with supplementary training coming later from Andy Fortis, Harry Daniels would work several pre-shows for British Wrestling Federation and Best of British Wrestling before being thrust into the Rookie Cup scene at BWF in late 2010. This would last barely a month before he would attack BWF Managing Director Chris Lyons, the last of several incidents that would culminate in his firing, which led directly to Rafe also leaving**2**.

The two would wind up in Best of British Wrestling as a tag team until late 2011, when Rafe was thrust into the World Championship scene. Harry would float around the mid-card, still battling personal issues, before taking a sabbatical. He'd return to the promotion in mid-2013, having largely turned his life around, and spent the next year as a reliable enhancer for the main event talent.

He also appeared for Midlands Pro Wrestling in 2014, in a long but sporadic feud with Marcel Visser that included a brutal First Blood match at Brummy Bloodbath 2014.

### UNION Wrestling first spell (2015-2018)

Daniels would join UNION Wrestling, then known As Pro Wrestling Union, in 2015, on the recommendation of Rafe, dying his hair blonde and teaming with Martyn "MC" Cooper under the name HD, as HDMC. The team, which began as a comedic and bumbling duo, grew in popularity after featuring in a Handicap match against Broderick in February 2017, leading to them being featured more prominently in the Tag Team Championship picture**3**.

They would usually put over higher placed teams, such as The Coalition and Los Luchadores, before scoring huge underdog victories against both to propel them firmly into title consideration. This seemingly came to an end when HD, representing the team, lost in a Tree-Way-Dance to elder brother Rafe- representing The United Kingdom- in what was actually their first ever match against each other. This was ironically at a time when they weren't acknowledged as siblings within the narrative of UNION programming.

HDMC would spend the remainder of the first season of UNION Wrestling feuding on-and-off with The Coalition and United Kingdom, before getting their first title shot at Heavy Metal 2017, which The Coalition would win.

The team would return in the second season, appearing on the debut show of UNION Wrestling LIVE! in a losing effort to Broad & Noone. They'd similarly put over a newer team on the debut episode of UNION Wrestling Charged, this time losing to the Cairn Brothers. They'd face- and lose to- old rivals The Coalition on the second episode of UNION Wrestling Unleashed. They'd appear only sporadically until an early-2018 injury to MC seemingly split up the team.

Daniels would post several cryptic messages to Grapplr in mid-2018 teasing his "evolution" from HD into "The Future", however he was released before this could materialise.

### Alt. wrestling scene (2018-2021)

Daniels would revert to using his full name in appearances for Fife Wrestling Kingdom, Japan MIGHTY! Wrestling and Wrestling upLOUD! across the rest of 2018 and early 2019, feuding in the first and third of those promotions with Drew March. He'd also appear as a guest referee for several Midlands Pro Wrestling shows, which could have led to a full-time contract had it not been for the onset of COVID-19.

In late 2020, Daniels stated his belief that he might retire, though this was later put down to him having a "crisis of confidence"**4**.

### UNION Wrestling second spell (2022-*present*)

In January 2022, UNION Wrestling confirmed Daniels' return to the promotion as part of their first "Roster Expansion", as part of a men's division boost that also included Piranha, Nick Logan and The Trick.

## In-Wrestling

### Signatures

Grounded Right Hook

Boxing Right Hook

## Trivia

* It was rumoured initially that the "HD" gimmick was a punishment for past incidents involving Daniels and members of UNION's hierarchy, though this was later proven false as Daniels confirmed he'd come up with the idea while he and Cooper were still in Midlands Pro together**5**.
* UNION's reasoning for not mentioning HD's relation to Rafe Daniels wasn't made public until years later, when UNION Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer mentioned in an interview that he felt having two siblings on opposing teams would limit their feuding potential**6**.

## Behind-the-Scenes

1. The MDickie games at the time had a feature in their booking mode where wrestlers would sometimes turn up late, drunk, etc., and they randomly took a liking to picking Harry for this, so I made it a part of his backstory... though as something he's since conquered.
2. I expanded it to Rafe so he could shift over the the less talent-heavy Best of British promotion.
3. In truth, I just liked them as a team more than I was expecting, and indulged them a little more.
4. In actuality a "should I/shouldn't I?" moment on my part.
5. I did initially plan it as a kind of "punishment", before deciding that this would largely be out of character given the personalities of those who'd narratively be doing the punishing.
6. While I think it probably would have limited any feuding potential, the actual reason for this is that the Wiki didn't exist back then, so there'd be very few- if any- readers of the original diary who knew who was behind the HD gimmick.