10 Best Pre-WWE Daniel Bryan Matches

6. VS Chris Hero (Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's Guerre Sans Frontieres)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Outb22IZIkA Many wrestling fans find Ring Of Honor to be too stuffy and serious about their in-ring product. Many wrestling fans find CHIKARA to be too focused on comedy and not serious enough about their in-ring product. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla steps up and delivers the best of both worlds, basically sitting back and allowing wrestlers to be themselves. You often see wrestlers come to PWG with a completely different character than you're used to seeing them with (Davey Richards, for example), and it's refreshing. Think back to the section about Danielson VS James Gibson, and how people figured a match's outcome was never in question. Here, you have PWG World Champion, Chris Hero, defending his title against Danielson, who had signed a WWE contract two weeks prior to the match, and was wrestling in his last match for this promotion. Sounds like an easy choice, right? Not so fast. You get your hard hitting action here, and you get your share of violence with Danielson getting busted open with a chair shot. What makes this match stand out, though, is Danielson's sheer will to win. When you watch wrestling, you often hear commentators talk about wrestlers wondering just what the hell they have to do to put their opponent away. That's what Chris Hero was thinking here. He would hit Danielson with an elbow that has finished much bigger men... only for Danielson to basically no-sell it and flip him the bird. He would land a vicious Backdrop Driver on him... only for Danielson to get back up and be ready to fight. He was like a zombie that just would not go away, and that's something you're used to seeing from wrestlers that are much larger in size. It was a great touch, although it's not something he should be doing regularly. Watching this match might make you sad, though, as it's a showing of what could have been. Hero was signed to WWE, and could have been brought up to the main roster, from NXT, and had matches like this with Daniel Bryan on television and pay-per-view, but alas, it just wasn't meant to be, and now Hero is back on the independent scene and wrestling in Japan.