5 Best And 5 Worst Reluctant WWE Tag Team Champions

On paper, this looked like a demotion for Daniel Bryan. Having come off losing the World Heavyweight Championship in embarrassing fashion at Wrestlemania, having the fans embrace him because of it, and contending for the WWE Championship on Raw, Bryan now found himself feuding with Kane over AJ Lee. The origins of Kane and Daniel Bryan actually had to do with a corporate synergistic tie-in between Raw and Charlie Sheen’s new sitcom, Anger Management. WWE set up a couple of skits where Kane and Bryan went to Anger Management class together, and the segments were a big hit.

The team would go on to win the championships and have a long reign where the two of them would get into fights all the time, but eventually come together at the end to win the match. The team ended when Bryan (surprise surprise) thought he was the weak link of the team.

It might seem like blasphemy to proclaim, but Bryan’s time in Team Hell No was an integral part to his rise to the top of the card in late 2013/early 2014. It showed the crowd that he had another dimension to his character besides being good at wrestling and saying a catchphrase over and over. He and Kane took a goofy gimmick like anger management buddies and went with it, turning it into entertaining television.