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* [[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.



** 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 [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** 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 [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].Meltzer.
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* Danielson does it ''again'', this time facing Wrestling/EddieKingston in the 2nd round of the World Title Eliminator Tournament. The two men beat the ''shit'' out of each other, going blow for blow, Eddie enraged by Danielson's taunt that he doesn't train hard enough to be a contender and once again turning Danielson's chest beet red with his vicious chops. The end comes when, after smashing Danielson to the ground with an Uraken, an exhausted Eddie crawls across his opponent to try and pin him, only to be trapped in a Triangle Choke and made to pass out, leaving Danielson too tired even to stand and celebrate his victory. It's at around about this time that critics started to rave about how impossible it is that ''every'' match Danielson has in AEW feels like it's the greatest match he's ever put on.

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* Danielson does it ''again'', this time facing Wrestling/EddieKingston in the 2nd round of the World Title Eliminator Tournament. The two men beat the ''shit'' out of each other, going blow for blow, Eddie enraged by Danielson's taunt that he doesn't train hard enough to be a contender and once again turning Danielson's chest beet red with his vicious chops. The end comes when, after smashing Danielson to the ground with an Uraken, an exhausted Eddie crawls across his opponent to try and pin him, only to be trapped in a Triangle Choke and made to pass out, leaving Danielson too tired even to stand and celebrate his victory. It's at around about this time that critics started to rave about how impossible it is that ''every'' match Danielson has in AEW feels like it's the greatest match he's ever put on.
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* Danielson does it ''again'', this time facing Wrestling/EddieKingston in the 2nd round of the World Title Eliminator Tournament. The two mean beat the ''shit'' out of each other, going blow for blow, Eddie enraged by Danielson's taunt that he doesn't train hard enough to be a contender and once again turning Danielson's chest beet red with his vicious chops. The end comes when, after smashing Danielson to the ground with an Uraken, an exhausted Eddie crawls across his opponent to try and pin him, only to be trapped in a Triangle Choke and made to pass out, leaving Danielson too tired even to stand and celebrate his victory. It's at around about this time that critics started to rave about how impossible it is that ''every'' match Danielson has in AEW feels like it's the greatest match he's ever put on.

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* Danielson does it ''again'', this time facing Wrestling/EddieKingston in the 2nd round of the World Title Eliminator Tournament. The two mean men beat the ''shit'' out of each other, going blow for blow, Eddie enraged by Danielson's taunt that he doesn't train hard enough to be a contender and once again turning Danielson's chest beet red with his vicious chops. The end comes when, after smashing Danielson to the ground with an Uraken, an exhausted Eddie crawls across his opponent to try and pin him, only to be trapped in a Triangle Choke and made to pass out, leaving Danielson too tired even to stand and celebrate his victory. It's at around about this time that critics started to rave about how impossible it is that ''every'' match Danielson has in AEW feels like it's the greatest match he's ever put on.
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* [[https://youtu.be/ipHzmucwYtc?t=1531 Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki:]] the crowd was on fire from start to finish, Suzuki knocked the soul out of Danielson multiple times, and Danielson barely eked out a win after pulling out every move in his arsenal... and it was all on the ''Buy-In'' pre-show. This dream match was aired in its entirity ''for free on [=YouTube=]''!

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* [[https://youtu.be/ipHzmucwYtc?t=1531 Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki:]] the crowd was on fire from start to finish, Suzuki knocked the soul out of Danielson multiple times, and Danielson barely eked out a win after pulling out every move in his arsenal... and it was all on the ''Buy-In'' pre-show. This dream match was aired in its entirity entirety ''for free on [=YouTube=]''!

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* [[https://youtu.be/ipHzmucwYtc?t=1531 Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki:]] the crowd was on fire from start to finish, Suzuki knocked the soul out of Danielson multiple times, and Danielson barely eked out a win after pulling out every move in his arsenal... and it was all on the ''Buy-In'' pre-show. This dream match was aired ''for free on [=YouTube=]''!

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* [[https://youtu.be/ipHzmucwYtc?t=1531 Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki:]] the crowd was on fire from start to finish, Suzuki knocked the soul out of Danielson multiple times, and Danielson barely eked out a win after pulling out every move in his arsenal... and it was all on the ''Buy-In'' pre-show. This dream match was aired in its entirity ''for free on [=YouTube=]''!


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* Danielson does it ''again'', this time facing Wrestling/EddieKingston in the 2nd round of the World Title Eliminator Tournament. The two mean beat the ''shit'' out of each other, going blow for blow, Eddie enraged by Danielson's taunt that he doesn't train hard enough to be a contender and once again turning Danielson's chest beet red with his vicious chops. The end comes when, after smashing Danielson to the ground with an Uraken, an exhausted Eddie crawls across his opponent to try and pin him, only to be trapped in a Triangle Choke and made to pass out, leaving Danielson too tired even to stand and celebrate his victory. It's at around about this time that critics started to rave about how impossible it is that ''every'' match Danielson has in AEW feels like it's the greatest match he's ever put on.
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* The American Dragon Bryan Danielson faces The Natural Dustin Rhodes on the opener of the Saturday October 23rd edition of Dynamite. Dustin despite his age manages to keep up with his younger and quicker foe, including hitting a piledriver on Danielson. Bryan in the end manages to get a win by locking on the Gulliotine Choke and causing Dustin to pass out

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* The American Dragon Bryan Danielson faces The Natural [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes Rhodes]] on the opener of the Saturday October 23rd edition of Dynamite. Dustin Dustin, despite his age age, manages to keep up with his younger and quicker foe, including hitting a piledriver on Danielson. Bryan in the end manages to get a win by locking on the Gulliotine Choke and Guillotine Choke, causing Dustin to pass outout.
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* The American Dragon Bryan Danielson faces The Natural Dustin Rhodes on the opener of the Saturday October 23rd edition of Dynamite. Dustin despite his age manages to keep up with his younger and quicker foe, including hitting a piledriver on Danielson. Bryan in the end manages to get a win by locking on the Gulliotine Choke and causing Dustin to pass out
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* Bryan Danielson's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-h.html ROH World Heavyweight Title]][=/=][[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-p.html ROH Pure Title]] unification match with Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness. A brutal war in Nigel's hometown, with Danielson bringing home the gold thanks to a seemingly endless flurry of elbows to the head of a bruised and bleeding [=McGuinness=].

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* Bryan Danielson's [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-h.html ROH World Heavyweight Title]][=/=][[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-p.html ROH Pure Title]] unification match with Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness. A brutal war in Nigel's hometown, with Danielson bringing home the gold thanks to a seemingly endless flurry of elbows to the head of a bruised and bleeding [=McGuinness=].
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* Not even 24 hours after his brutal war with Minoru Suzuki, Bryan Danielson is back in the ring on the special Saturday October 16, 2021 edition of Dynamite and facing Bobby Fish in the Main Event. The match ends with Bryan locking in a vicious heel hook forcing Fish to submit.

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* Not even 24 hours after his brutal war with Minoru Suzuki, Bryan Danielson is back in the ring on the special Saturday October 16, 2021 edition of Dynamite and Dynamite, facing Bobby Fish Wrestling/BobbyFish in the Main Event. main event. The match ends with Bryan locking in a vicious heel hook hook, forcing Fish to submit.
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* Not even 24 hours after his brutal war with Minoru Suzuki, Bryan Danielson is back in the ring on the special Saturday October 16, 2021 edition of Dynamite and facing Bobby Fish in the Main Event. The match ends with Bryan locking in a vicious heel hook forcing Fish to submit.
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** Fans and critics were immediately calling this a Match of the Year contender, and one of the best matches of both men's careers. For Danielson, it bears reminding that he just wrestled another one of the best matches of his careers against Kenny Omega not a month before!
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* [[https://youtu.be/ipHzmucwYtc?t=1531 Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki:]] the crowd was on fire from start to finish, Suzuki knocked the soul out of Danielson multiple times, and Danielson barely eked out a win after pulling out every move in his arsenal... and it was all on the ''Buy-In'' pre-show. This dream match was aired ''for free on [=YouTube=]''!
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* Bryan getting his first AEW win by defeating Nick Jackson of Wrestling/TheYoungBucks on the October 1, 2021 edition of Rampage.

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* Bryan getting his first AEW win by defeating Nick Jackson of Wrestling/TheYoungBucks in an outstanding match on the October 1, 2021 edition of Rampage.
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* Bryan getting his first AEW win by defeating Nick Jackson of the Wrestling/YoungBucks on the October 1, 2021 edition of Rampage.

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** Said match also marks the return of the Cattle Mutilation. The crowd went NUTS upon seeing it again.

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** Said match also marks the return of the Cattle Mutilation. The crowd went NUTS upon seeing Danielson use it again.
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** 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 [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** Even more so for Bryan as the match is the first one in his 20+ year career to be rated ''five stars'' by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** Even more so for Bryan as the match is as, for the first one time in his 20+ year career to be rated ''five stars'' career, he's finally awarded his first 5-star match by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].
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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' has a match that's rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** Even more so for Bryan as, for as the match is the first time one in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' has a match that's year career to be rated five stars ''five stars'' by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].
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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' has a match that is rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' has a match that is that's rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].
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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' gets a match rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' gets has a match that is rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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* After months of buildup and heartbreaking losses, Wrestling/KofiKingston, for the first time in his 11-year career, captures the WWE Title from [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson "The New" Daniel Bryan]] at Wrestlemania 35 in a ballistic match that saw a crowd of 82,000 on its feet as Kofi kicked out of a Running Knee while The New Day fended off Rowan. This also marked Kofi being the first ever African-born WWE Champion, and with it becoming a Grand Slam Champion. [=KofiMania=] indeed.

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* After months of buildup and heartbreaking losses, Wrestling/KofiKingston, for the first time in his 11-year career, captures the WWE Title from [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson "The New" Daniel Bryan]] Bryan at Wrestlemania 35 in a ballistic match that saw a crowd of 82,000 on its feet as Kofi kicked out of a Running Knee while The New Day fended off Rowan. This also marked Kofi being the first ever African-born WWE Champion, and with it becoming a Grand Slam Champion. [=KofiMania=] indeed.


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** Even more so for Bryan as, for the first time in his 20+ career, he ''finally'' gets a match rated five stars by [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]].

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** As a meta moment of awesome that underscores the message Bryan sent with this match even in defeat, look at some of these matchups and their respective run times: Lesnar v. [[Wrestling/RomanReigns "The Chosen One" Roman Reigns]] at WrestleMania 34: 15:55. Lesnar v. Styles at Survivor Series 2017: 15:25. Lesnar v. Wrestling/RandyOrton, Summerslam '16 (aka The One With All The Stiff Elbows): 11:45. Lesnar v. Wrestling/JohnCena, Summerslam '14 (aka The One With All The German Suplexes): 16:05. '''Lesnar vs. Bryan? 18:50.''' In comparison to the any of the above listed matches, Bryan lasted longest and probably came the closest to actually winning.

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** As a meta moment of awesome that underscores the message Bryan sent with this match even in defeat, look at some of these matchups and their respective run times: Lesnar v. [[Wrestling/RomanReigns "The Chosen One" Roman Reigns]] at WrestleMania [=WrestleMania=] 34: 15:55. Lesnar v. Styles at Survivor Series 2017: 15:25. Lesnar v. Wrestling/RandyOrton, Summerslam '16 (aka The One With All The Stiff Elbows): 11:45. Lesnar v. Wrestling/JohnCena, Summerslam '14 (aka The One With All The German Suplexes): 16:05. '''Lesnar vs. Bryan? 18:50.''' In comparison to the any of the above listed matches, Bryan lasted longest and probably came the closest to actually winning.


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* After provoking AEW Champion Wrestling/KennyOmega into accepting his challenge for a non-title match between the two of them solely to see who was the better wrestler, Bryan Danielson's first match in AEW ''delivered!'' He and Omega, two of the greatest wrestlers in the world today, went at it hammer and tongs in front of a packed crowd 20,000 strong and molten hot in New York City, the American Dragon vs the Cleaner, all the way to a 30-minute time limit draw with both men tired but still ready to keep fighting at the end. After the bell rang, a furious Danielson continued to attack the AEW Champion, forcing him into [[FinishingMove the LeBell Lock]] before the rest of the Elite ran down to prise him off. The match was instantly hailed as ''easily'' one of the best of 2021 and the best TV match AEW had ever put on, with some even going as far to call it the greatest televised[[note]]that is, non-PPV[[/note]] match ''of all time.''
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* Bryan making his long awaited AEW debut at the end of All Out 2021 by confronting Wrestling/TheElite.

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* Bryan making his long awaited AEW [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] debut at the end of All Out 2021 by confronting Wrestling/TheElite.
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** That moment when Bryan peels off the neck brace and gets off the stretcher is up there with Wrestling/MickFoley climbing off the stretcher at ''King Of The Ring 1998'' as one of the great spine-tingling moments in WWE history.
** Listen to the crowd again as Batista taps. The rise in volume and cheers is '''chilling'''.
** Possibly the ONLY man who was able to get the crowd back into it after Wrestling/TheUndertaker lost.

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** That moment when Bryan peels off the neck brace and gets off the stretcher is up there with Wrestling/MickFoley climbing off the stretcher at ''King Of The of the Ring 1998'' as one of the great spine-tingling moments in WWE history.
** Listen to The sheer legendary status of the crowd again crowd's pop as Batista taps. The rise in volume and cheers is '''chilling'''.
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** Possibly Capping it all off, Bryan was possibly the ONLY man who was able to get the crowd back into it after Wrestling/TheUndertaker lost.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You Deserve It!"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"You [[caption-width-right:350:''"You Deserve It!"]]It!"'']]
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* '''July 24, 2014'''- Preventing an actual burglary of his house when he caught two thieves trying to flee after being spotted. Bryan was able to snag one of the thieves and keep him detained by applying a rear-naked choke on the unlucky perp until the cops arrived at his house minutes later. Even while [[HandicappedBadass off the job due to recovering from neck surgery]], the American Dragon can still kick ass.

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* '''July 24, 2014'''- Preventing an actual burglary of his house when he caught two thieves trying to flee after being spotted. Bryan was able to snag one of the thieves and keep him detained by applying a rear-naked choke on the unlucky perp until the cops arrived at his house minutes later. Even while [[HandicappedBadass off the job due to recovering from neck surgery]], the American Dragon can still kick ass. The other perp was eventually caught, by the way.



* [=Wrestlemania=] 34 was Daniel Bryan's first match in three years after being shelved due to injuries. And he performs like he'd never left, with absolutely no signs of ring rust in his performance.
* ''Greatest Royal Rumble'': Because of him starting the eponymous match at number 1 and the match having 20 more entrants than a normal Royal Rumble, Bryan manages to break Rey Mysterio's 2006 record of lasting the longest in a single match with an hour and sixteen minutes. Sadly, he didn't win the match.

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* [=Wrestlemania=] 34 was Daniel Bryan's first match in three years after being shelved due to injuries. And he performs like he'd never left, with absolutely no signs of ring rust in his performance.
performance. He resigns from the GM post the following [=SmackDown=] to focus on full-time competition; his replacement ends up being Paige, who had to retire the day before due to injury reasons herself.
* ''Greatest Royal Rumble'': Because of him starting the eponymous match at number 1 and the match having 20 more entrants than a normal Royal Rumble, Bryan manages to break Rey Mysterio's 2006 record of lasting the longest in a single match with an hour and sixteen minutes. Sadly, he didn't win the match.match (Braun Strowman, who also broke a Royal Rumble-related record that night, did).
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* On April 11, he got married to [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Brie Bella]]. Sooo… in the span of one week, he's become the face of the WWE, combined with Wrestling/BrockLesnar to inject a sense of mainstream news that the WWE hasn't really had in years, beat Wrestling/TripleH in a brilliant technical match, hung on for a grueling triple threat against Wrestling/RandyOrton and Wrestling/{{Batista}} that featured some memorable spots including a Batista bomb-to-RKO through the announce table, [[HeroicResolve fighting off of a stretcher to get back to the ring]], and then making [[HateSink the unpopular Batista]] tap out like a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch little bitch.]] '''[[SerialEscalation And THEN]]''' he gets married to ''Brie Bella.'' [[SincerityMode That is so fucking amazing I don't even have a snarky joke.]]

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* On April 11, he got married to [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Brie Bella]]. Sooo… in the span of one week, he's become he became the face of the WWE, combined with Wrestling/BrockLesnar to inject a sense of mainstream news that the WWE hasn't really had in years, beat Wrestling/TripleH in a brilliant technical match, hung on for a grueling triple threat against Wrestling/RandyOrton and Wrestling/{{Batista}} that featured some memorable spots including a Batista bomb-to-RKO through the announce table, [[HeroicResolve fighting off of a stretcher to get back to the ring]], and then making [[HateSink the unpopular Batista]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch tap out like a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch little bitch.]] '''[[SerialEscalation And THEN]]''' he gets married to ''Brie Bella.'' [[SincerityMode That is so fucking amazing I don't even have a snarky joke.]]''

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