Sure, it wasnt a tense, drawn-out 20-minute match, but Daniel Bryans first WWE World Championship win at TLC 2011 was a huge moment in his career and was a huge show of faith in the American Dragon. After Big Show had defeated Mark Henry for the gold before then being laid out by the former Sexual Chocolate, Bryan ran down with his Money in the Bank briefcase and just literally put himself on top of Big Show and got the 1-2-3. And with that, Daniel Bryan had become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion a little over a year after returning to the company at SummerSlam 2010. With CM Punk as the WWE Champion on Raw and Daniel Bryan as the World Heavyweight Champion on Smackdown, this was the moment that the smart fans had been waiting for.