His World Championship win was a shock
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At Money In the Bank 2011, Bryan won the SmackDown Money In the Bank ladder match, earning a World Championship match.
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At TLC that year, Bryan won his first World Championship, defeating a downed Big Show to capture the Big Gold Belt.
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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)."
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Edited by Amar Anand