A request! It's Daniel Bryan vs Bray Wyatt at the 2014 Royal Rumble in Pittsburgh! You will recall that Li'l Dan had briefly joined the Wyatt Family as a big ruse and now it's time to settle it.

This is the show opening match so the crowd is even more hot than they normally were for Dan at the time.

It was pretty stupid to light a lantern and then blow it out just to walk out with an LED lantern tbh

I loved them

this mf had a rocking chair in the aisle lmao wwe is so goddamn dumb

Cole: "The man who told Daniel Bryan, 'We gave you a chance to walk with the reapers, now you're gonna burn with the saints.'"

Lawler, betraying the entire tone Cole tried to set: "Burn with the saints in the battle of the beards!"

There are few recent little things that spoke more to how out of touch WWE can really be than their perplexed fascination with how many people grew beards after it had become fashionable again. The second writer for Daniel Bryan's book must have used the word "hirsute" 150 times.

Bryan wisely gets Harper and Rowan thrown out early, a strategic move.

Oh Bray, you confident fool.

JBL thinks Daniel Bryan is a hobbit. Just FYI if you forgot. And he's bringing PWG to the Royal Rumble.

Wyatt's legs have been Bryan's target, but a recent Possible Concussion is Wyatt's.

Cole and Lawler and JBL doing *concerned whispering*

Nobody:
Bray Wyatt in 2014:

JBL and Lawler discuss discuss THE EXORCIST and Cole is, like, "LMAO that's so OLD nobody remembers THAT!"

TOP ROPE HOOTA AND CANRANA

Wyatt is really great with the explosive physical offense and Daniel Bryan took it better than basically anyone

Li'l Dan stayin alive!

Cole: "Shades of his mentor Shawn Michaels!"

The really bad thing about JBL's commentary from this time period is he was constantly floating between ridiculous heel troll and perfectly rational analyst.

BIG BRAY COMIN ATCHA

We love to see Bray bite his way out of the Yes Lock

One cool thing you can do when a move doesn't go quite right is Your Signature Taunt

Sister Abigail!

Another one in the ring, and as always Bray Wyatt is Daniel Bryan's superior.

In televised singles matches of any substance, Wyatt is 4-0 career against Bryan. Bryan did beat him in two VERY short televised DQs in late 2013.

Basically Bray Wyatt : Daniel Bryan :: Arn Anderson : Hulk Hogan

Also for all you Bray Wyatt HATERS out there, this is a really good match and holds up very well today. So for you HATERS, take that, you say Bray Wyatt sucks at wrestling matches but he definitely had a good one about 6.5 years ago, BITCHES