Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE - 2/22/2015)
Mar 15, 2019 17:19:09 GMT -5
Post by fxnj on Mar 15, 2019 17:19:09 GMT -5
Surprised I couldn't find a thread for this. Best Bryan match and performance I've seen. Blows away the ROH work I saw from him. This will likely make my list.
20150222 Bryan vs. Reigns
I have to admit to being a little skeptical of the Danielson as GOAT hype train after him not really looking the part in some of the ROH I'd watched, but he lives up to the hype here. Funny thing how much a few extra years of experience and the WWE agents can help a guy. Bryan ditches the cutesy neck bridges on his ROH matwork that he'd learned from his lucha tapes, and he instead just comes across as dangerous technician out to hurt Reigns with painful looking submissions that can he can slap on at a whim. I popped for the flying armbar, though his execution on the armbar seemed kind of sloppy. There's a great story in play here with Bryan as the grizzled vet out to break the young Reigns, but he ends up getting broken himself when he finds that he can't put away Reigns with even his stiffest offense. Lots of brutal kicks from Bryan in this, including some to Reigns's liver that did not look fun to take at all. Loved the transition with Bryan scoring the liver kick to counter a Reigns Superman punch and JBL putting it over as akin to the Bernard Hopkins punch that dropped De La Hoya. Really dug Reigns's selling on the liver shots with him just sitting in the corner in too much pain to really do anything else, just as you'd expect from a shoot liver shot. I felt great sense of urgency on Bryan's control segment. Reigns responded in kind with his comebacks as he scored some stiff as fuck forearms and a great powerbomb triangle counter. I also dug the stretch run as well with how they did some really hot Bryan near falls and Bryan unloaded on Reigns with some ungodly kicks to his head. Bryan also did a great job of selling his doubt in himself as Reigns survived his best shots, which led straight into the finish of him running right in a Reigns spear. ****1/2
20150222 Bryan vs. Reigns
I have to admit to being a little skeptical of the Danielson as GOAT hype train after him not really looking the part in some of the ROH I'd watched, but he lives up to the hype here. Funny thing how much a few extra years of experience and the WWE agents can help a guy. Bryan ditches the cutesy neck bridges on his ROH matwork that he'd learned from his lucha tapes, and he instead just comes across as dangerous technician out to hurt Reigns with painful looking submissions that can he can slap on at a whim. I popped for the flying armbar, though his execution on the armbar seemed kind of sloppy. There's a great story in play here with Bryan as the grizzled vet out to break the young Reigns, but he ends up getting broken himself when he finds that he can't put away Reigns with even his stiffest offense. Lots of brutal kicks from Bryan in this, including some to Reigns's liver that did not look fun to take at all. Loved the transition with Bryan scoring the liver kick to counter a Reigns Superman punch and JBL putting it over as akin to the Bernard Hopkins punch that dropped De La Hoya. Really dug Reigns's selling on the liver shots with him just sitting in the corner in too much pain to really do anything else, just as you'd expect from a shoot liver shot. I felt great sense of urgency on Bryan's control segment. Reigns responded in kind with his comebacks as he scored some stiff as fuck forearms and a great powerbomb triangle counter. I also dug the stretch run as well with how they did some really hot Bryan near falls and Bryan unloaded on Reigns with some ungodly kicks to his head. Bryan also did a great job of selling his doubt in himself as Reigns survived his best shots, which led straight into the finish of him running right in a Reigns spear. ****1/2
