History Awesome / BryanDanielson

* '''January 30, 2012.''' Champion vs Champion match. Yes, World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan faces WWE Champion CMPunk.

* The Raw following TLC saw CMPunk, ZackRyder and BryanDanielson in the same ring, basically saying what no one thought possible, had actually happened. They would later in their six man tag match enter through the crowd, which was all kinds of awesome!

** Not to mention the fact that he was one of the first three professional wrestlers to have his own personal SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome page. The other members of this prestigious group? TheUndertaker and, RicFlair. That's the level of awesome Danielson maintains.

* The Raw following TLC saw CMPunk, ZackRyder and DanielBryan in the same ring, basically saying what no one thought possible, had actually happened. They would later in their six man tag match enter through the crowd, which was all kinds of awesome!

* WWE TLC. TheBigShow defeats Mark Henry in a pretty good Chairs match. Mark Henry [=DDTs=] Big Show onto Chairs. Daniel Bryan comes out and cashes his Money In the Bank Briefcase to win. The pop was deafening. And then he went to the camera, looked into it, and said "Thank you to everybody that has supported me these past twelve years." Michael Cole is dumbfounded, and Show... has a look on his face as if he was surprised, but impressed. A fitting milestone to one that basically founded one of the WWE's biggest feeder organizations.

* On the January 25 episode of NXT Season 4, Bryan was in a Pro vs Pro match with Ted DiBiase. In the middle of the match, fellow pro R-Truth started a call-and-response Daniel Bryan chant. The response was ''deafening''. The chants would only continue through the match.

* If I'm not mistaken, didn't he just get an incredible match out of Mark Henry, of all people? And even gave his own against the World's Strongest Man? That's pretty damn awesome.
* WWE TLC. TheBigShow defeats Mark Henry in a pretty good Chairs match. Mark Henry DDTs Big Show onto Chairs. Daniel Bryan comes out and cashes his Money In the Bank Briefcase to win. The pop was deafening. And then he went to the camera, looked into it, and said "Thank you to everybody that has supported me these past twelve years." Michael Cole is dumbfounded, and Show... has a look on his face as if he was surprised, but impressed. A fitting milestone to one that basically founded one of the WWE's biggest feeder organizations.

* If I'm not mistaken, didn't he just get an incredible match out of Mark Henry, of all people? And even gave his own against the World's Strongest Man? That's pretty damn awesome.

* You can tell how awesome [[FanNickname Daniel Bryan Danielson]] is by the fact that he is the only member of TheNexus to have his own TV Tropes page.

** After he gets knocked by a jealous Wade Barrett, he catches him in the Lebell Lock while laying down.

** 2. And then the following week, the most brilliant WorkedShoot in recent history -- punking out [[TedBaxter The Miz]] (with William Regal and CM Punk - who, in WWE kayfabe, have no history with Daniel Bryan except for ''NXT'' - both ''enthusiastically'' agreeing with Bryan behind Miz's back) and slapping around [[TheWesley Michael Cole]] like he owed him money, all while disassembling the [[ExecutiveMeddling politicking in the]] {{WWE}} and their blatant ignorance of non-{{WWE}} promotions. The camerawork is notable during that brawl, as well. Other than it airing at all (the first and best sign of a WorkedShoot), ''tell me'' that didn't look real.

* His match against Alberto Del Rio also counts. Two of the rising stars of the WWE going head to head...that was amazing!

* His promo against CodyRhodes, where he calls out Cody's narcissistic "The World is Ugly" attitude, claiming that his father Dusty Rhodes, despite [[{{Understatement}} not exactly being an attractive man]], was a much better person than he would ever be and refused to accept that fact.

** He's still a Badass; unlike all the other Money in the Bank winners that cashed in when the champions had defended their titles (but were totally exhausted from it), he stated that his Money in the Bank contract would be cashed in on Wrestlemania 28's main event. Now, it's a seven month race to see who's gonna have it by April 1st, 2012.
** After he gets knocked by a jealous Wade Barrett, he catches him in the Lebell Lock while laying down.

** He's still a Badass; unlike all the other Money in the Bank winners that cashed in when the champions had defended their titles (but were totally exhausted from it), he stated that his Money in the Bank contract would be cashed in on Wrestlemania 28's main event. Now, it's a seven month race to see who's gonna have it by April 1st, 2012.

** He's still a Badass; unlike all the other Money in the Bank winners that cashed in when the champions had defended their titles (but were totally exhausted from it), he stated that Money in the bank would be cashed in on Wrestlemania 28's main event. now it's seven month race to see who's gonna have it by April 1st, 2012.

* His promo after winning Money in the Bank did a lot to help his reputation on the mic. He excoriated Michael Cole (again), played to the crowd, and delivered the kind of promo Main Event guys are supposed to deliver. Then he beat the crap out of Heath Slater.

* Winning the goddamn Smackdown Money in the Bank! And people thought he wouldn't go anywhere in the WWE!

* His promo against CodyRhodes, where he calls out Cody's narcissistic "The World is Ugly" attitude, claiming that his father Dusty Rhodes, despite [[{{Understatement}} not exactly being an attractive man]], was a much better person than he would ever be and refused to accept that fact.

** 1. His "Who is Daniel Bryan?" promo after he's eliminated from ''NXT'', wherein he makes it clear that Daniel Bryan =/= Bryan Danielson. (The name change was forgotten by the subsequent episode, but what the hell.) Especially notable is the camera shaking, albeit slightly, as though the cameraman is giddy with the prospect of what's to come for him.

** 3. And then ''the next week'', Bryan follows that up by faking an apology to MichaelCole for the previous week's attack, instead apologizing for him being the worst announcer in wrestling today. Cole rips on Bryan with an (uncharacteristically) good promo, saying that Bryan had "tapped out" of ''NXT'' because he had "no heart". This earned Cole another attack (with Bryan escaping security's grasp so he could ''tackle Cole into the ringside barricade''), and as security led Bryan past the WWE "Pros", The Miz started to run his mouth at Bryan - so Bryan fired back with a swift right, dropping Miz like a bad habit. In the end, ''Bryan had punked out both Miz and Cole '''for the second week in a row'''''.
** 4. And did it '''again''' the next week on Raw, beating The Miz clean in a match. When Miz tries to go for a post-match beatdown, dragging Bryan over to the announcer's desk and making Bryan apologize to MichaelCole, Bryan turns around and throws Miz right over the table, right into Cole.
* '''WWE Raw, June 7 2010:''' The NXT Riot. All eight Season 1 ''NXT'' rookies laid waste to the entire show during a CM Punk vs. John Cena main event, including beating up commentators, the timekeeper, and even Justin Roberts (whom Bryan was personally choking out with his own tie). After trashing the ringside area, they would proceed to gang attack Cena, brutalizing him with multiple finishers, including Bryan actually kicking John Cena's fucking head in. He preceded this kick by yelling "YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN ME!!!" several times and then spit in Cena's face.
* '''WWE Summerslam, August 15 2010:''' The show's main event is a seven-on-seven elimination match between a team of WWE all-stars and TheNexus, and Team WWE has a one-man deficit. Earlier in the show, The Miz accepted Cena's offer of joining Team WWE; later, he comes out during the Team WWE entrances and looks to be the final man for the team. Cena stops him as he makes his entrance, however, and informs Miz that he took too long deciding whether or not to join the team, and that he'd found someone else in that time. Daniel Bryan comes out, and the cheers of millions of nerds causes the internet to explode. And in what was both his WWE return match and his WWE PPV debut (''in the main event of the second biggest show of the year'', no less!), "[=AmDrag=]" made sure to leave his mark - in this case, by completely owning both Darren Young and Heath Slater in about a minute each, and making it all the way to the final four.

** How big was Danielson's return to WWE? After he came back, "Bryan Danielson" was the #1 tending topic on Twitter ''worldwide.''

* '''WWE Night of Champions, September 19 2010:''' Daniel Bryan makes The Miz tap out to win his first title in WWE, the United States Championship, in arguably Miz's best match to date. Smarks everywhere cheered; MichaelCole threw a hissy fit.
** '''WWE Hell in a Cell, October 3 2010:''' Daniel Bryan would retain his US title against The Miz and John Morrison in a Triple Threat Submissions Count Anywhere match. Following the win, Michael Cole would be forced to admit that Bryan was the better man that night.

* His promo against CodyRhodes, where he calls out Cody's narcissistic "The World is Ugly" attitude, claiming that his father Dusty Rhodes, despite [[{{Understatement}} not exactly being an attractive man]], was a much better man than he would ever be and refused to accept that fact.

* He brought TheBigShow to his knees during the Draft Battle Royal of 2011.

** What made this a particularly surprising moment was that almost ''nobody'' expected this; Bryan's initial firing had taken place only a few months beforehand, and the general consensus was that he'd maybe be back in late 2010 or worse (if he came back at all). The fact that ''none'' of the dirtsheets or news sites picked up on it makes it even more incredible. It would have been the perfect surprise...[[WallBanger if WWE.com had not been updated with a story on Bryan's return a few minutes before the main event took place]].

* On the January 25 episode of NXT Season 4, Bryan was in a Pro vs Pro match with Ted DiBiase. In the middle of the match, fellow pro R-Truth started a call-and-response Daniel Bryan chant. The response was ''deafening''. The chants would only continue through the match.

** Not to mention the fact that he's currently one of only [[strike:two]] four professional wrestlers to have his own personal SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome page. The [[strike:only]] other members of this prestigious group? TheUndertaker, RicFlair and TheMiz. That's the level of awesome Danielson maintains.

* On the January 25 episode of NXT Season 4, Bryan was in a Pro vs Pro match with Ted DiBiase. In the middle of the match, fellow pro R-Truth started a call-and-response Daniel Bryan chant. The response was ''deafening''.

**** And just to add icing to the cake, that Bragging Rights match is considered by WWE to be one of the top two matches of 2010. The other? '' TheUndertaker vs ShawnMichaels at Wrestlemania''. It seems WWE finally realizes that they've got gold with [[FanNickname Daniel Bryan Danielson]], which might be why they gave him a pair of infatuated escorts in The Bella Twins later in the year.

**** And just to add icing to the cake, that Bragging Rights match is considered by WWE to be one of the top two matches of 2010. The other? '' TheUndertaker vs ShawnMichaels at Wrestlemania''. It seems WWE finally realizes that they've got gold with [[FanNickname Daniel Bryan Danielson]]

** Not to mention the fact that he's currently one of only two professional wrestlers to have his own personal SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome page. The only other member of this prestigious group? TheUndertaker. That's the level of awesome Danielson maintains.