5 Lesser known best matches involving Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan would be looking forward to spending some quality time with his wife now that he has retiredDaniel Bryan, on monday, announced that he was going to retire from Professional wrestling effective immediately. It goes without saying that the fans would miss the former ‘American Dragon’ dearly and even though his WWE main roster run lasted a mere five years, Bryan had grown in stature so much that he was miles ahead of most of his colleagues in terms of popularity.Bryan has had numerous memorable moments in the WWE, winning the World, United States, Intercontinental and Tag team titles. The pinnacle of his WWE run would be winning the WWE World Heavyweight title in the main event of WrestleMania against Randy Orton and Batista.However, Bryan had been wrestling for over a decade in the independent circuit before coming over to the WWE and had made a name for himself way before his main roster debut. This list takes a look at the top five Bryan matches from the Indies that are lesser known than his WWE matches, but just as good.

#1 Daniel Bryan Vs Nigel McGuineess - ROH Unified 2006

The match that firmly established Bryan on the very top of the ROH roster was his title unification match with Nigel McGuinness aka Desmond Wolfe (in TNA). Bryan was the ROH World champion and McGuinness was the ROH Pure champion and the two began a feud to determine who the best was.

They had a series of matches with McGuinness winning the first via count out – which meant that the ROH World title did not change hands. The second match took place in McGuinness’ native England with hundreds of fans cheering wildly for their countryman.

However, it would be Bryan that came out on top and he became the only man to hold both the ROH World and Pure titles at the same time. Bryan and McGuiness would battle once again for the now unified world title, with Bryan coming out on top again.