10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 2010 Facts

7. It Marked Daniel Bryan's Last PPV One-One-One Match For Nine Months

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Daniel Bryan kicked off the pay-per-view telecast, successfully defending the United States championship against Ted Dibiase. The brisk ten-minute match showed why Bryan was such an asset to WWE programming, demonstrating his value as a fighting champion and technical marvel.

It wouldn't be until SummerSlam 2011 that pay-per-view audiences got another taste of Bryan in basic singles competition. The future leader of "The YES Movement" only wrestled twice on pay-per-view in between: as an afterthought entrant in the 2011 Royal Rumble, and as the surprise winner of a Money in the Bank ladder match that July.

Aside from those examples, Bryan topped out in pay-per-view pre-show matches, including WrestleMania XXVII, after he and Sheamus were bumped from the main card. And that's if he even had matches on those Sunday evenings at all.

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Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Since 2014, Justin has been a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine. Justin also writes for History of Wrestling, and is a contributing author to James Dixon's Titan series.