Fantastic. Bryan is incredible punishing Murphy - his trashtalk rules, and the little pre-match promo only added for what was about to happen. The way he started to stretch Murphy some more after he refused to give up to the LeBell Lock was so great too, and even his kicks looked & sounded harder than usual. Amazing stuff all around by him, and Murphy definitely was real good himself too. The way he pushed the pace with his explosive offense bursts was awesome, and a real great contrast to Bryan's style. They meshed so well together -- the two definitely proved to have wonderful chemistry with one another in their first meeting. An absolutely terrific underdog story w/ superb energy all the way through. ****1/4

The Roman match last week already showed that Buddy was ready to hang with the big stars, and it might've even be a better match than this one, but man, this felt special in ways the other didn't.

It was great, of course. Daniel Bryan is excellent at being this rude piece of shit with deadly strikes and sumissions, and it really made a star out of Murphy, who earned his comeback and was just as good as Bryan in his role.

The hot crowd also really helped this. The action wouldn't have as much gravity to it if the crowd wasn't dying for Murphy to win this. Just some incredible couple of weeks for him,