Number two probably was a better match, but one was more special for me. For those that don't know the story, Dave came to CSWA as a part of an 'Invasion' storyline.
That was ON the surface.
Beneath it, a couple of CSWA people came to me and told me about how the GXW tried to tarnish the CSWA title, by having their champ(Ryan) beat up our champ(Evan Aho) on their show, putting heavy emphasis on his being the CSWA champ(correct me if I'm wrong, Brunk, but was the CSWA title on the show as well?). The people that told me were pissed, and I was told that it was a shoot, and that we(CSWA) were taken advantage of, so I, in turn, became pissed.
So, Dan Ryan comes to the CSWA. And, I take any and every opportunity that I could to talk as much trash as possible, leading to a match and a pretty intense back and forth between Jonathan David and I. The match ended up being a countout win for Trip(hah!) on a house show card, and afterwards, I get an IM from Kent saying that Dan Ryan's handler wanted to chat(or something of that nature).
My first reaction was: "Hell no! He can kiss my ass!", but Kent somehow got me to talk to him, and he ended up not being so bad of a guy. Dave doesn't tell people this very much, but he and I became pretty close, we talked very often, and once the whole Invasion thing simmered, our characters became cool. A card or two before Ryan beat Mark Windham, Stevens had the same shot and didn't get it done. But, Ryan winning the CSWA World, to me, was like Sean winning it, because Dave was my buddy, and he deserved it.
Who knew my computer would go down, and I would come back a year and some change later to him holding every major world title on the planet?