8. John Cena vs CM Punk- Money In The Bank 2011
WWE.comThe current era of professional wrestling- officially recognised now by WWE and Triple H as- the Reality Era began, in earnest, when WWE began to promote social media heavily, produce legitimate backstage interviews and Wrestlemania diaries. Considering the nature of the promo that Punk cut around the time, it seems his pipebomb is as good as any a place to pick as a starting point. Not only the heralding of a new era, Punk's pipebomb and subsequent match against Cena took a stuttering, lukewarm product and injected it with heroin at the time. The video package produced before the start of the match- Do I have everybody's attention now?- is one of the greatest packages in WWE history and the match- a superb tour de force of crowd heat and intangible emotion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_1x2BTcmww Professional wrestling, in any incarnation, has always had two things going for it that other forms of entertainment don't: the live crowd and the physicality of the medium. Over the course of this list, I'll refer to both a lot. The crowd is always vitally important for the casual viewer at home: naturally, if the crowd in attendance doesn't care, why should the viewer at home? As for the physicality, it doesn't always have to be high spots and stiff shots. In fact, more often or not, it's about the telling of a story. Punk and Cena told an epic that night in Chicago.