His World Championship win was a shock
At Money In the Bank 2011, Bryan won the SmackDown Money In the Bank ladder match, earning a World Championship match.
At TLC that year, Bryan won his first World Championship, defeating a downed Big Show to capture the Big Gold Belt.
But Bryan did not find out until earlier that day, that he would be winning the coveted prize.
It was looking like I wouldn’t be at WWE TLC either, but at the last minute I got booked at a Kmart to do a signing with Kelly Kelly before the show.
After my signing, I came to the building, not expecting to be doing anything. I was just chatting and goofing around (at one point, I was browsing the Internet for the best paper airplane design, as I recall)."
Edited by Amar Anand