10 Daniel Bryan WWE Matches You Have To Watch

8. Team Hell No Vs. R-Boom (Night Of Champions 2012)

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To be perfectly honest, Kane and Daniel Bryan hadn’t quite yet adopted their tag team name, but this match really put them on the map.

At WrestleMania 28 that spring, Bryan lost his World Heavyweight Championship to Sheamus in 18 seconds (and no, that match isn’t on this list). Bryan began a slide downhill, ending with fiancée AJ Lee leaving him at the altar to become Raw GM, where she tormented her former lover.

This led to a perfect Odd Couple pairing of Bryan and Kane, which helped trigger a huge resurgence for Bryan. On this night, the duo captured the tag team championship from R-Truth and Kofi Kingston, leading to an eight-month title reign.

Bryan rode this pairing right into the summer of 2013, where his singles push really took off.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.