7 WWE Dream Matches That Happened Years Apart
2. John Cena Vs. Daniel Bryan
Less than a year after getting squished by Brock Lesnar, John Cena was a changed man. Gone where the tights, replaced by unsightly jeans and a meaner demeanour. He had gone from a fish in Brock Lesnar's barrel to being a wasp in his cider, not beating the Beast but irritating him enough to receive shots at Lesnar's WWE Championship.
He still wrestled on Velocity though, and he would come up against a man who 10 years later would defeat him in an emotionally charged SummerSlam main event.
Bryan Danielson was a long way from becoming the leader of the YES! Movement, but the talent was already there. He controlled the majority of the match against Cena, but Cena was able to pull out the win via that Prototype Bomb thing he now uses in transition.
You would have got very, very, very long odds on this being a future SummerSlam main event way back in 2003. Danielson seemed destined for a life on the independent scene, and Cena just screamed 'midcard and not much else'. How very wrong those words would turn out to be.