10 OTHER Gimmick Matches WWE Needs To Revisit

9. Submissions Count Anywhere Triple Threat

Punjabi Prison 2006 Great American Bash
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WWE has presented just one Submissions Count Anywhere Triple Threat bout, at Hell In A Cell 2010.

The match was more or less a vehicle to get Daniel Bryan over as a submission specialist, with John Morrison using the nooks and crannies of the staging area to break up Bryan's mangling of The Miz with his fancy parkour stylings. It was a cracking hidden gem of a match, perfectly suited to and performed by the characters involved.

The name of the match alone is so cumbersome that it practically underlines the desperation behind it - it's almost as if Alan Partridge pitched it as a last-gasp job-saving measure - but the content thrillingly betrayed the contrivance. It should not be retired alongside Bryan nor forgotten alongside Morrison, even though it played to their respective strengths.

In 2010, Daniel Bryan and John Morrison were antithetical to their undeveloped developmental graduate peers - but the roster in 2017 is bloated with performers technically and acrobatically capable of consummating what was, sadly, only a brief flirtation.

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