18. Daniel Bryan Vs. Antonio Cesaro - Raw, July 22nd 2013
The fans wanted Daniel Bryan in the summer of 2013 and boy did WWE give him to them. On the July 22nd 2013 Raw, the company booked Bryan to wrestle in three straight matches against Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro and Ryback. It was the match with Cesaro, sandwiched in the middle, which was naturally the best of the lot. The two men, whom Vince McMahon has notoriously been opposed to pushing in the past, put on one hell of a match. This was the best that Cesaro had looked in WWE up until that point and Bryan was proving to be every bit the main eventer that the fans were hoping he'd become. The finish, with Bryan countering the pop-up uppercut with a small package was beautiful in its simplicity. If we got more matches like this then fans probably wouldn't mind Raw being three hours long so much.
