This Week in WWE: Daniel Bryan Has Greatest In-Ring Week of His Career

Move of the week: Tyson Kidd's flawlessly executed hurricanrana sends Primo tumbling out onto all of his tag team opposition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VP7EpUwNRI This Week in WWE history 5 Years Ago: Vince McMahon blew off his own death by burning limo angle to very seriously address the genuine passing of wrestler Chris Benoit as a tribute show aired in place of a usual episodic programme. This was then regretted when it transpired that Benoit had actually murdered members of his own family before taking his own life a couple of days later. As such, WWE scrambled to distance themselves from the wrestler by way of removing his merchandise and refusing to acknowledge his existence on television. From a PR standpoint it would have been disastrous for the company to have responded any differently. 10 Years Ago: WWE champ The Undertaker easily disposed of Jeff Hardy in singles competition but was then challenged by Jeff afterwards to an undisputed title ladder match to take place the following week. Raw then went off the air with the image of Brock Lesnar powerbombing RVD through a table following Lesnar's DQ loss in an Intercontinental Title match. On Smackdown Kurt Angle started the show by issusing a challenge to any wrestler who had never faced him before which brought out developmental talent John Cena who argued that ruthless aggression was the quality he thought could make him become the best. Angle then won the match but looked annoyed and refused to shake Cena's hand after obtaining the victory. Later on, Angle then managed to trap Undertaker in the Ankle Lock after Taker had teased him about how he was as close as he ever would be to holding the title again. 15 Years Ago: Raw saw Bret Hart run down all his scheduled opponents for the Canadian Stampede PPV and Paul Bearer startle Undertaker by mentioning "the fire." Later on his former manager promised to reveal the secret he had been holding over the wwe champion. Meanwhile on Nitro, the main event between DDP and Scott Hall lasted all of three minutes before Savage emerged to attack DDP for the DQ. Post-match Hall and Savage continued the beatdown before Sting emerged to make the save with his bat. Ratings from previous week were exactly the same with Raw landing a 2.4 and WCW a 3.3.

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