10 Best WWE Matches That Happened Outside America
7. Shawn Michaels Vs John Cena
The majority of UK-based Raw or Smackdown tapings are fairly pedestrian - aside from AJ Styles winning the WWE Title in 2017, nothing too major happens on UK shows. However, there are matches that live long in fans' memory and are ones that now thanks to the WWE Network are accessible when the desire to reminisce happens. The main event of Raw in London at the O2 Arena in April of 2007 is one of those matches that exceeded expectations.
Shawn Michaels and John Cena squared off in the main event of Raw on the 23rd April in a WrestleMania 23 rematch. After Cena had defeated a valiant HBK at the Showcase of the Immortals, Michaels had not stopped coveting the WWE Championship and challenged Cena for a repeat of their main event just ahead of Backlash. Cena was on one of the hottest runs of his career and with it came some of the fan resentment, yet even the most ardent of Cena haters could find little fault in his epic performance against HBK.
The pair wrestled for nearly one hour - and this was when Raw was still two hours. The duo put on a technical clinic with on-point chain wrestling, counters and amazing sequences all enhanced by Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler’s epic call on commentary. In the end, Shawn got his win back with a beautiful sequence reversing an Attitude Adjustment and hitting Sweet Chin Music before scoring the three count. A match that lives long in the memory and also bumped Orton and Edge from the show as it went for so long.