5 ROH Callbacks You Missed On AEW Dynamite Last Night

3. The Fallen Angel Got His Comeuppance

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In the landscape of AEW right now, Christopher Daniels is the rarely-seen veteran babyface who fans have so many fond memories of for his time in TNA, ROH and the dawn of All Elite Wrestling. For Bryan Danielson, he's the cocksure prick heel who takes great pleasure in proving how he's better than anyone in the industry when it comes to stepping between the ropes.

So, Danielson laying a beating on Daniels after the pair's Dynamite bout was a scumbag move that saw a villain needlessly beat down a wily hero of yesteryear.

For those who watched the formative years of Ring of Honor, though, Christopher Daniels perhaps deserved to get eviscerated by the American Dragon.

What possible justification could there be to decimate a helpless 51-year-old great of the modern era? Why, that's because the Fallen Angel was the first person to go against Ring of Honor's famed Code of Honor in any meaningful, constant way.

During the early days of ROH, Daniels was the promotion's top villain, and part of his act was that he would refuse the customary Code of Honor handshakes before and after matches. At that point, Bryan Danielson was the heroic in-ring wizard who was all about respect, and thus Daniels lack of respect was just one further reason why the pair were so often at odds in the early-2000s.

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