History Awesome / BryanDanielson

* Bryan Danielson makes his return to the ring against Daniel Garcia after nearly a month away from the ring stemming from a concussion he suffered at Anarchy in the Arena. Despite Danielson dominating Garcia in the early going, he quickly reaggravates his head injury after landing hard on a missile dropkick. From there, Garcia zeroes in on the injury busting Bryan open and even hitting a DDT on the exposed floor. Bryan does manage to get his bearings enough to make a comeback but Jake Hager grabs Bryan's ankle allowing Garcia to look in the sharpshooter. The referee is forced to stop the match, giving Garcia the biggest win of his young career.

* If the previous Stadium Stampede matches were meant to comedic, then Anarchy in the Arena was meant to be absolutely ruthless and bloodthirsty. Neither Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz were willing to give the Jericho Appreciation Society any breathing room as all ten men were bloodied and bruised, with fights spilling into the crowds and merchandise stands. While Eddie was busy with Daniel Garcia, Proud and Powerful dealt with 2.0 by putting Matt Menard and Angelo Parker through tables from a ladder. Just as Bryan and Moxley locked Chris Jericho and Jake Hager in the [=LeBell=] Lock and Bulldog Choke, respectively, Eddie returns to the ring with a gasoline canister with the intent on setting Chris on fire as revenge for nearly burning away The Mad King's eyes on the April 27th, 2022 episode of ''Dynamite''. The American Dragon puts a stop to that, but tensions between him and Eddie were still high since they don't see eye-to-eye and a scuffle breaks out, giving Jake a chance to send Jon through barbed wire onto a table outside of the ring, then attack Bryan's weakened leg with Jericho's baseball bat Floyd. The JAS would claim the win by having Danielson knocked unconscious to the Walls of Jericho, while Hager simultaneously chokes him with the top ring ropes that Moxley unhooked mid-match.

* * The Blackpool Combat Club continue their path of destruction through AEW on the April 20, 2022 Dynamite as Danielson, Mox and Yuta run roughshod over the young upstart team of Dante Martin, Brock Anderson and Lee Moriarty, finishing the match by all three BCC members beating down the opposition at once (Mox and Yuta giving the hammer elbows to Martin and Anderson respectively, while Danielson stomps Moriarty's head in) before Mox finishes Martin with a Paradigm Shift. Notably the crowd was cheering ''everyone'' in this match, not just the incredibly-over Blackpool Combat Club, but also their young opponents, especially HometownHero Lee Moriarty.

* '''May 20th, 2012''': Bryan's first shot at the WWE Championship against CM Punk at ''Over the Limit''. The match delivered big time with both men stealing the event that was headlined by the abysmal bout between John Cena and Wrestling/JohnLaurinatis.

* '''May 20th, 2012''': Bryan's first shot at the WWE Championship against CM Punk at ''Over the Limit''.

*** 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? '' Wrestling/TheUndertaker vs Wrestling/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.

* May 25, 2012 edition of Smackdown. Bryan sneak attacks Wrestling/{{Kane}} and hits him with '''twenty-six''' steel chair shots in a row.

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award ''nine years in a row''. It got to the point they later renamed it after him following his retirement. After Wrestling/ZackSabreJr went seven consecutive years with his own impressive winning streak, Bryan ''finally'' won it back in 2021.

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award ''nine years in a row''. It got to the point they later renamed it after him following his retirement. And after Wrestling/ZackSabreJr went seven consecutive years with his own impressive winning streak, he ''finally'' won it back in 2021.

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award ''nine years in a row''. It got to the point they later renamed it after him following his retirement. And after Wrestling/ZackSabreJr went seven years in a row with his own impressive winning streak, he ''finally'' won it back in 2021.

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award ''nine years in a row''. It got to the point they later renamed it after him following his retirement. And after six years of Wrestling/ZackSabreJr going on his own impressive winning streak, he ''finally'' won it back in 2021.

** The spot with Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} could essentially be a FunnyAneurysmMoment since Sheamus received a heavy bruise on his leg and a torn labrum that will take him out for 6 months. Full payback for 18 Seconds?

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award ''nine years in a row''. It got to the point they later renamed it after him following his retirement. And after several of Wrestling/ZackSabreJr going on his own impressive winning streak, he ''finally'' won it back in 2021.

* He won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Technical Wrestler award so many times, they later renamed it after him, following his retirement.

* Following a victory over Wheeler Yuta on the February 2, 2022 Dynamite, Bryan Danielson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ONsg4e4ys confronts]] Jon Moxley after their little run-in post-match on the January 21st episode of Rampage. Rather than antagonize Moxley into a match that the audience expects, Bryan propositions ''a partnership'' - one where they can go after the AEW World Championship, the TNT Championship and the World Tag Team Championship, including taking young wrestlers like Wheeler, Daniel Garcia and Lee Moriaty under their tutelage, away from their respective cohorts that are The Best Friends, 2Point0 and Matt Sydal/Dante Martin. Although Jon neither accepts nor declines Danielson's idea, it's clear that the gears to this approach is turning in Moxley's head.

** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ year career, he's ''finally'' awarded his first 5-star match by Dave Meltzer.

* Bryan Danielson vs "Hangman" Adam Page opens Winter is Coming 2021 for the AEW World Title: the two go the limit, an hour long match that had nail biters and teased finishes between them - from Hangman's multiple Buckshot Lariats to Danielson's string of knee strikes, kicks and submission techniques - culminating in time running out just as Hangman hits the final Buckshot as he crawls to pin Bryan. To date, the latter has yet to record an official loss in AEW. [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]] would award the match a 5-star rating, Bryan's second in his career.

* The American Dragon and The Redeemer go head-to-head in the finals of the World Championship Eliminator Tournament at Full Gear 2021. Danielson, who had never beaten Miro before in any encounter [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} anywhere else]], used every inch of technical nous he had to fight back against the overwhelming ferocity of his massive opponent. In the end, a second-rope Tornado DDT knocked Miro clean out, the ref calling for the bell almost as soon as the lightning-quick Danielson locked in a guillotine choke on his unconscious opponent, making the American Dragon the new #1 contender to the AEW World Championship.

*** [[spoiler:Or not, as Bryan is champ, and seems to be heading for a Show/Henry feud]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOrl73UPrzY His ROH World Title defense against KENTA at Glory by Honor V]]. Before the match, Danielson suffered an injured right shoulder in his match with Wrestling/ColtCabana and despite [[Wrestling/KentaKobayashi KENTA]] targeting it throughout the match, [[{{Determinator}} Danielson fought through the pain]] and retained the championship in what is one of the best bouts of both men's careers.

* If you thought Danielson competing the entirety of the above match with an injured right shoulder was impressive enough, then look no further at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHy6swAxsYA his ROH World Title shot against defending champion Takeshi Morishima at Manhattan Mayhem II]]. During the match, Morishima repeatedly struck Danielson in the face, giving him a legitimate [[EyeScream detached retina]] in the process. Despite the pain and ultimately losing in the end, Danielson '''still''' went through the rest of the match giving the fight to Morishima. The match was so acclaimed that it was voted 2007 Match of the Year by the Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter's readers.