10 Best Near Falls In WWE History
Best WWE kick-outs of all time
8. Daniel Bryan in the World Heavyweight Title Elimination Chamber Match - Elimination Chamber 2012
Six or so years before he nearly floored The Streakbreaker, Daniel Bryan was almost beaten himself by a very unlikely candidate.
As the final pay-per-view before WrestleMania 28, Elimination Chamber 2012 offered one last chance for someone to beat Bryan and carry the World Heavyweight Championship into the big event.
The champ was defending against five other men inside the titular structure, where the match came down to himself and longtime comedy jobber Santino Marella.
In a moment nobody saw coming, Santino pulled out his trusty cobra sock and struck Bryan in the face with it. Up to this point, nobody had ever kicked out of the Cobra.
Surely they wouldn’t? Surely even WWE weren’t mad enough to have Santino go into WrestleMania as world champion? In the end, they didn’t pull the trigger on the faux Italian, but you’d be lying if you said you didn’t buy into this finish, even just for a split second.
In an utterly baffling statistic, Bryan remains the only person in the history of WWE to be shown kicking out of Santino’s finishing move.
