15 Wrestling Matches You Won't Believe Happened In 2018
1. Brock Lesnar Vs Daniel Bryan (WWE Survivor Series)
The AJ Styles/Brock Lesnar sequel was something fans were seemingly thrilled to see. Their contest a year earlier had been one of Brock’s very best, and ‘The Phenomenal One’ was due a performance mirroring his exceptional effort the prior year.
Back then, Daniel Bryan was still desperately traversing the country trying to literally fix his head and get cleared to wrestle again. He’d once harboured ambitions of a dream match with Brock Lesnar. Now, locking up ever again was the new dream he fought for.
And he fought, and he fought, and he won. And then he lost. A lot.
WWE fudging Daniel Bryan’s babyface return could and should have been one of the stories of the year, had they not distracted us with an even more intriguing one just before 2018’s finish line.
Bryan’s heel turn and title win may well have been because of Becky Lynch’s absence, but he had allegedly suggested it for his own sake sooner. When he got the response he wanted, the timing couldn’t have been any better.
Though Brock and Bryan had but five days to plan, the men wrestled a match that will still be talked about years from now. That - in a year that started with one of them retired and the other imminently set to return to UFC - it even happened was remarkable before the bell rang.