10 Daniel Bryan WWE Matches You Have To Watch

4. CM Punk Vs. Daniel Bryan (Over The Limit 2012)

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During CM Punk’s epic WWE Championship title reign, he faced nearly every top superstar and had great matches on multiple shows.

This one was one of the standouts of the bunch, albeit on a forgettable show. Punk was winding down his time as a babyface champion, about to turn heel by attacking the Rock at Raw 1,000. Bryan was about to embark on a journey as a delusional superstar who would undergo anger management therapy, form a tag team and lead a Yes Movement.

But at this point, they were both former “indy darlings,” getting to put on a clinic on a WWE PPV. And this match was exactly what you could want as a fan, a great bout between two elite wrestlers.

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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.