20 Greatest Moments Of Daniel Bryan's Career

By Andrew Pollard /

2. Cleanly Beating John Cena

Much like Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin before him, John Cena rarely loses cleanly. And by rarely, I mean practically never. In typical WWE fashion, having their biggest babyface lose in a decisive, fair and clean way just doesn€™t happen. At whatever cost, their top guy is protected no matter what. So with that said, it was a truly monumental moment to see Daniel Bryan get a straight-up clean 1-2-3 over John Cena, defeating Big Match John for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam 2013. Sure, this title celebration was short-lived when Triple H screwed Bryan and allowed Randy Orton to cash in his MITB briefcase and take the gold, but the list of guys to cleanly go over uber-babyface Cena is limited to literally a handful of guys. And at the top of that list is Daniel Bryan, reflecting the regard in which the WWE now viewed him.