Motivation Behind WWF/WWE Match of The Year 1978-2017 Project
There is a Greatest Pro Wrestling Match Ever Project (http://gweproject.freeforums.net/) going on and this one is near and dear to my heart. There may be nothing I am more passionate about than breaking down and analyzing a pro wrestling match. I have wrote millions of words discussing pro wrestling matches and that is not an exaggeration. Pro wrestling transcends time and space. It is a language we can all speak. I am excited to glorify what I believe is the greatest art form that mankind has ever produced.
It is impossible to watch every pro wrestling match ever. Once you accept that, the project becomes a little more bearable. I believe in depth over breadth. There are a lot of people that will disagree with me. I want to make sure that I am the absolute authority on what I know before I venture into more unfamiliar genres of pro wrestling (lucha, joshi, World of Sport etc...). With that in mind, I think there is no better place to start than with WWF/WWE. For most of the world, the McMahon Family's brand of pro wrestling is pro wrestling. So to understand it is to understand how most view pro wrestling. To me that where we should begin.
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| No injury, nobody, no thing can take this away from Daniel Bryan and from us. |
WWF/WWE Match of the Year 1978-2017 Background
This is Part One of a Forty Part Series. The end result will be that I will declare the top three matches of the year to take place in WWF/WWE from 1978 through 2017 and give my reviews of each. For ease of reading purposes, I will list all honorable mentions but not give a full review. I will make hyperlinks available for my full reviews of every match I have watched for a given year.
I will give an overview of the year from a booking perspective, debuts & departures, key moments & matches and overall themes of the year. Then I will list Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Rankings followed by another ranking system that seems relevant for that year. For 2013-2017, I will use Voices of Wrestling.com's results because they have a large cross section of respected voters that watch a wide variety of pro wrestling.
I am starting with 2014 mostly because I already watched most of this back in 2014-15 and I didn't have to watch extra matches. Plus I think starting with a more contemporary year will garner more interest.
The Year That Was 2014, Hope Withers:
Put yourself back in April of 2014:
The Shield was red hot, putting on exciting matches weekly and having a tremendous series with the Wyatt Family. Cesaro was a midcard workrate workhorse that won the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royale and Paul Heyman was his new manager. Most importantly, Daniel Bryan stood tall at WrestleMania XXX as the Undisputed WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Bryan stood as a beacon of light that a new dawn was rising. It felt like a new Golden Age of Workrate was being ushered in. The year 2013 is arguably the greatest in ring year in WWE history and it is definitely top five. Coming off such a great year in 2013 and then when you put Shield vs Wyatts on top of that, Cesaro's push and Daniel Bryan's Championship victory, you had something in the WWE that had not existed since 1997, you had hope.
Hope for a future that was filled with exciting pro wrestling, interesting characters and countless angles. Ultimately and unfortunately that is all it was. It was just hope. That's why when I think back to April of 2014, I am just sad.
Everything the Wyatt Family has touched since that feud with the Shield has turned rotten. The Wyatts are good wrestlers, but the writing for them has been terrible. What is Bray Wyatt's motivation to do anything? We never know! How can we have a vested stake in anything he does? Instead he would be shoehorned into a Seth Rollins vs Dean Ambrose feud. Why? Because we need to protect Seth. He became a plot device instead of a character. Anyone who has followed my thoughts on pro wrestling know I call Bray Wyatt of the Ruiner of Everything because he needlessly, senselessly thrust into angles with no rhyme or reason.
Cesaro the amazing workhorse of 2013 that was putting on great matches on NXT, Main Event and RAW looked so promising. What happened to him in 2014? I am actually asking because I cant remember. Honestly, I just had to look up what he did on Survivor Series that year to jog my memory. He was on the pre-show jobbing to Jack Swagger. Yep. I am just going to leave that here.
Well we all remember what happened to the Shield! I am going to discuss them more in detail when I talk about 2013, but what a campaign that year. Just week in and week out, you could on another incredible Shield match that felt so organic and chaotic compared to the rehearsed, overly choreographed nature of so many modern WWE bouts. Then Seth Rollins hit Ambrose and Roman with a chair. We got Seth Rollins lead heel backed by the Authority. I was having flashbacks to Evolution in 2003 with the opening promo segments that would go on ad nauseum. Everything in 2013 The Shield touched turned to gold. It is amazing that everything after the break up felt so flat. I forgot that Roman was out pretty much from Summerslam 2014 to Royal Rumble 2015. He did not even get a welcome back pop. I already discussed how they botched the Rollins/Ambrose feud.
Of course, the saddest news of all, Daniel Bryan was injured about a month into his title reign and forced to relinquish the championship he worked so hard for. He was the symbol of this new generation. When he went down, the sun set on the new Golden Age of Workrate. The WWE still has not completely recovered.
I am an optimist through and through. I actually am regretting starting with this year now because I don't like to complain. I got to call a spade a spade. This was a year where WWE squandered a lot of capital and goodwill. However, there was some good and this was a year that still managed to have plenty of great wrestling even if it pales in comparison to 2013.
The first third of the year picks up right where 2013 left off. Great Shield matches and great Daniel Bryan performances. The Shield vs Wyatt Family were some of the best tags I have seen since All Japan's heyday in 1990s. They are action-packed and have an organic sense of chaos. Even though the Daniel Bryan angle came about because CM Punk abandoned the WWE, it is truly one of the best they have ever run. It is one of the best pure underdog stories ever. I am still kicking myself for not being at WrestleMania XXX. It is such an emotional and moving night. Nobody and no injury can ever take that away from Daniel Bryan and his fans. Re-reading my reviews of the three best matches, I have to admit 2014 for all its squandered opportunities still had incredible wrestling in it. We should not forget how damn good the first third of the year was! :)
Some other major new items from 2014:
-CM Punk leaves.
-I attend Money in the Bank 2014 in Boston. I single handedly resuscitate Ryback's career by getting a "Feed Me More" chant started during a boring ass Ryback/Curtis Axel tag match. Go back and watch that match you will be hear an audible Feed Me More chant. That was me and that is only time I have ever successfully started a chant. Ryback, you fool, squandered your second chance! :p
-Summer of Rusev - Rusev's undefeated streak beating Big E, Swagger, Big Show, Olympic Tearful Mark Henry and Sheamus was incredible. Another hot cant miss midcard prospect. Yep. :(
-The Streak is Broken. Brock Lesnar breaks the Most Vaunted Streak in Pro Wrestling when he defeats The Undertaker in a match that I remember to be really boring and a clusterfuck. I will go back and watch it someday but there are only so many minutes in the day and there is so much good wrestling to watch.
-John Cena Squashed. In one of the most shocking moments in pro wrestling history, the main event of Summerslam 2014 is a squash. Cena is hit with an F-5 at the outset of the match and never recovers. Brock Lesnar toys with his opponent and is never in danger. He ultimately finishes off Cena. The second biggest show of the year and to have a squash as your main event and on top of that it is John Fucking Cena who is getting squashed is the definition of ballsy. The closest thing in pro wrestling history that I can think of is Vader's defeat of Sting at Great American Bash '92, but even then Sting had more compelling hope spots. I think it reminded me more of a Super Bowl Blowout like the one where the Seahawks crushed the Broncos. Truly remarkable booking. Something that was well-received not just by me but by the wrestling fan community at large.
-The Beginnings of Women's Revolution - 2015 would signal that the women of WWE had arrived and were to be taken seriously, but 2014 planted those seeds. Hitherto, Paige vs Emma at the original NXT Takeover was the best womens match in WWE. Charlotte vs Natalya was a turning point in how pro wrestling fans at large viewed and critiqued women's wrestling (albeit I found it to be overrated, its importance in getting wrestling critics interested in women's wrestling should not be overlooked).
-Sami Zayn wins the Small One. Aint I a stinker? :p Sami Zayn's quest to win the NXT championship was similar to the Daniel Bryan story but on a smaller scale. I don't think it was any less effective. I think the beauty of this story was it did not involve the trite use of an Authority figure. Besides obvious external struggle of trying to overcome the cocky, sadistic NXT Champion Neville, it was an internal struggle of was Zayn good enough on his own merits and if he was not, what would he be willing to do to win? It was a very cool hook. Thinking about it more, I am shocked at how low I rated it (4.25 stars). I should go back and watch it because as a story I think that is a ***** story.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Rankings (Overall Rankings in Parenthesis):
1. The Shield vs Waytt Family - Elimination Chamber 2014 (6)
2. Daniel Bryan vs Triple H - WrestleMania XXX (8)
3. WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena vs Brock Lesnar - Summerslam 2014 (12)
4. WWE World Champion Randy Orton vs Batista vs Daniel Bryan - WrestleMania XXX (13)
5. Cesaro vs Sami Zayn - NXT Arrival 2/27/14 (18)
Voices of Wrestling Rankings (Overall Rankings in Parenthesis):
1. The Shield vs Waytt Family - Elimination Chamber 2014 (3)
2. NXT Champion Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn - NXT REVolution 2014 (4)
3. Cesaro vs Sami Zayn - NXT Arrival 2/27/14 (5)
4. Daniel Bryan vs Triple H - WrestleMania XXX (8)
5. WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena vs Brock Lesnar - Summerslam 2014 (11)
6. The Shield vs Evolution - Extreme Rules 2014 (19
7. Charlotte Flair vs Natayla Neidhart - NXT Takeover 5/29/14 Vacant Womens Championship (20)
8. WWE World Champion Randy Orton vs Batista vs Daniel Bryan - WrestleMania XXX (24)
I watched 22 WWE/NXT matches from 2014. Below are hyperlinks to all the reviews I have written.
John Cena: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2015/01/do-you-see-what-i-see-john-cenas-2014.html
The Shield: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2015/01/do-you-believe-in-life-after-shield.html
Daniel Bryan: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2015/01/owner-of-biggest-heart-daniel-bryan-wwe.html
Sami Zayn/NXT: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-flair-for-inzayn-sami-zayn-charlotte.html
Dolph Ziggler: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2015/02/kid-ego-dolph-ziggler-wwe-2014.html
Honorable Mentions:
11. Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins - RAW 8/18/14 Falls Count Anywhere ****1/4
10. Team Cena (John Cena, Dolph Ziggler, The Big Show, Ryback, Rowan) vs The Authority (Seth Rollins, Luke Harper, Rusev, Kane and Mark Henry) - WWE Survivor Series 2014 ****1/4
9. John Cena vs Cesaro - RAW 2/17/14 ****1/4
8. The Shield vs Wyatt Family - WWE RAW 3/3/14 ****1/4
7. NXT Champion Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn - NXT Takeover REvolution 12/11/14 ****1/4
6. WWE I-C Champion Luke Harper vs Dolph Ziggler - WWE TLC 2014 Ladder Match ****1/2
5. WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar vs John Cena - Night of Champions 2014 ****1/2
4. WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena vs Brock Lesnar - Summerslam 2014 ****1/2
#3. Cesaro vs Sami Zayn - NXT Arrival 2/14
NXT is where pro wrestling lives, baby! Where has this Cesaro been on the main roster? No, it is not completely booking's fault. I am talking that bully mentality and those violent heel tendencies. Cesaro is damn great wrestler, make no mistake about it, but he has the same problem that many midcard heels on the main roster have. They do NOT do anything heelish in the context of the match. This is why "This is awesome" is so prevalent because there can't be good without evil and no one is evil in the ring. On this night, Cesaro was a total, unmitigated, unadulterated prick. Zayn is the consummate babyface. He is the lovable underdog character that you believe can win, but you know it is not going to be easy. You know he is going to leave it all in that ring and you will never be disappointed by Zayn win, lose or draw.
Watch the two out of three falls match first, before you watch this match. Ok, you watched it now, good. Unlike most modern WWE series of matches, this series actually builds layers on top of other matches. The only WWE series that comes close recently is Cena/Lesnar. The beginning of this match was probably my favorite beginning to any match of 2014. It was just so perfect. Zayn has proven from the previous matches that his best chance to elude Cesaro with his quickness, but now being familiar with Cesaro he is combining his natural elusiveness with actual scouting experience. Cesaro shows him up early with his power and gives him a playful slap to the back of the head that gets a rise out of everyone. Cesaro goes for the Giant Swing, but Zayn eludes it with a armdrag to the outside. Zayn goes flying out onto Cesaro and it is fastbreak offense that gets the crowd rocking. Cesaro nips in the bud by catching Zayn off the top and into a backbreaker. Cesaro is just in total bully prick mode throwing Zayn around on the outside and he looks to use the post, but Zayn yanks Cesaro into the post with his feet. Zayn looks to repeat his awesome dive through the turnbuckles, EUROPEAN UPPERCUT! HOLY SHIT! Cesaro had it scouted. Now, we get Cesaro going back to the post and wrapping around the post. Cesaro working the knee was incredible and some of his best work in the WWE. Zayn is doing a great job selling, but also mixing in hope spots. I loved the whiff on the enziguiri triggering the single leg crab. I love sequences like that. His next spot was for Zayn was his split legged moonsault caught by Cesaro and slams him into the ramp. Damn! That was actually credible countout finish tease and you really feel Zayn's grit and determination to return to the ring.
Zayn's first big score is the Exploder into the turnbuckles. I agreed that Zayn needed to get hit some offense at this point in the match, but I thought it was a bit too easy for Zayn and felt more like it was his turn than him earning it. Cesaro goes back to the knee to cut off Zayn’s string of offense and applying a leg wrench using his neck as a fulcrum. Then you move to another interesting aspect of the characters. Cesaro starts to get a little cocky and Zayn takes advantage with roll up out of the Giant Swing. I love how Zayn fights during the Swing; it really makes for an awesome visual and puts over Zayn’s character. During a sloppy Cesaro cover Zayn slides Cesaro over for a two count. Cesaro almost more pissed at himself for letting that happened, crushes Zayn’s head with a double stomp that had me popping like crazy. Zayn has another burst of offense using a hurricanarana off the top to set up his Yakuza Kick (I could not understand what Zayn’s name for it is.). Zayn won the first fall of the last match with that move. 1-2-NO! OH shit, you just gave Cesaro your best shot and that has to take a lot of wind out of your sails. Cesaro starts to obliterate Zayn with European Uppercuts and Zayn is just rocked, but won’t stay down. Zayn has one last burst of burst and the fists start flying. He throws a wicked German. Can he pull it off? I love Zayn’s selling with him holding his mouth, fighting through the pain and showing great fire looking for that Yakuza Kick, but Cesaro demolishes him with a big boot. Cesaro throw him up and European Uppercut only get one, but Cesaro will not be deterred and hits a roaring European Uppercut and Neutralizer for the win!
Zayn and Cesaro just crushed it out there. If there is any NXT match as good as this, then hot damn I am going to be in for one helluva run. Cesaro showed some of his best character work here as an arrogant bully. Zayn’s story of craving that respect and proving himself by defeating the main event bully made for a great hook. He fought to the very end, but eventually succumbed to Cesaro. Then Cesaro comes back to the ring and gives him that respect in the form of a hug. This is a perfect representation of how to get someone over by losing. Everyone came out looking better from this masterpiece. ****1/2
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#2. The Shield vs Wyatt Family - WWE Elimination Chamber 2014
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| Even, I'll admit "This Is Awesome!" |
It is crazy to think that if they pulled the trigger on a Dean Ambrose/Bray Wyatt feud at this point, I would have lapped it up. By November, I was actively rejecting it as one of the worst things on TV. It tells you how cold the product has gotten and cooled off these two molten characters are now. Ambrose was just rocking it as the firebrand that was the trigger for the chaos. I loved when everyone was turning to go to their respective corners, Ambrose just jumped the Wyatts. The tag wrestling in this was better than in the rematch. I loved how strongly they emphasized getting their opponent into their corner. That's the Shield's modus operandi to exploit the numbers game, but they may have met their match in the Wyatts that will throw that strategy right in their face. Rollins opening with speed to get Rowan into the Shield corner was perfect with Rowan bowling him over to escape. It put over how much strategy mattered in this match.
Roman Reigns versus Bray Wyatt felt huge during their showdown and I loved how Reigns fought through everything. Nothing was given, he had to go through the Wyatts. The beatdwon of Harper in the corner was just classic Shield. That's tag team wrestling baby! They do a great transition where Ambrose's temper gets the best of him as he takes a swipe at Bray on the apron and eats a Harper dropkick. What follows is just badass. Ambrose bites Rowan, Harper steps on Ambrose head and claws at his face. I love it, Michael! The swinging neckbreaker transition is super weak though. Rollins was a great house of fire with great speed moves and climaxing on an excellent suicide dive that got the crowd rocking. He gets the drive by knee, but whiffs on the Curb Stomp and eats a swinging powerslam. The Bray Wyatt senton on the outside looked nasty. My favorite spot of the match was Harper had Rollins by the hair just playing with his food and Rollins slaps him in defiance and Harper slaps the taste out of his mouth. That was powerful shit.
People talk up Ambrose's fighting from underneath prowess, but Rollins should not be underestimated as he fights in the corner with great urgency only for nasty Bray headbutts to keep him at bay. This match utilized Bray better as the game changer for his team. I like the idea of him letting his heavies do the dirty work, but if ever gets out of hand, he is there to keep it in check. Ambrose makes the save for Rollins and eats a hellacious big boot from Harper. Rollins hits an enziguiri to get Reigns in the match (I am not digging these transitions). Reigns is so great in these hot tag situations and not just the typical Reigns offense, there is a nasty back elbow to Rowan that keeps you on your feet. In an electric moment, Reigns is thrown outside and just runs around the ring to kick Rowan's head in. AMBROSE SWARM!!! KATIE BAR THE DOOR! There is a pier-six brawl a brewin'! Harper suicide dive and Rollins says two can play at that game. Ambrose and Wyatt tumble into the crowd and Rollins gets double chokeslammed through the table. Hey, how come the monitors did not explode when they were ripped out of the announce table (a swipe at the shitty Hell In A Cell 2014 finish). After more than a year of The Shield picking their opponents off one by one, The Wyatts gave them a taste of their own medicine. Now Reigns was left alone surrounded by the Wyatts just as he surrounded so many others. Luke Harper serves a beaten Reigns to his master. I loved how Reigns blocked Sister Abigail and turned it into a test of strength. SUPERMAN PUNCH! Reigns goes for the spear on Bray, but Harper takes the bullet for his leader. In the chaos, Bray hits his wicked cross body and Sister Abigail to win.
I loved the finish. The Shield's strategy was predicated on two tenets: create chaos and divide and conquer. The Wyatts took out two members of the Shield leaving Reigns alone and then in the chaos that ensued Bray Wyatt took advantage to win the match. The match weaknesses: the transitions were lame & uncreative and I would have liked more chippiness. They were too willing to just let one guy have his segment and that be that. The rematch thrives on that chaos and full court press by both teams. I think if you could combine the best parts of this match and the rematch, you would have all-time classic that really could rewrite how North American tag team wrestling is executed and presented. Still if anything can top this I will shocked. Cena/Lesnar had the big match atmosphere and the Bryan Wrestlemania matches will have emotion, but I don't think they can top the chaotic and violent feel of this. As is, it is still an incredible match from both an action and storytelling standpoint as the Shield essentially get beaten at their own game and the torch was seized by new three-man wrecking crew. ****3/4
#1. Daniel Bryan vs Triple H w/Stephanie McMahon - Wrestlemania XXX
In light of recent events, this match should only be more cherished as the night everything was right with the world of pro wrestling. The most emotionally impactful of the match of the year contenders of 2014. The Shield versus Wyatts made the best use of past history, AJ Styles vs Minoru Suzuki told the most interesting intra-match story and Tanahashi/Nakamura rocked the limb psychology like no one else this year. Wrestling should not hit in you the head, it should hit you in the gut. When I watch this match, I was moved moreso now than probably when it happened. Daniel Bryan represents so much more to me than just a great wrestler. He proves if you love it, want it and work hard enough for it then anything is possible. We all know the obstacles in front of him and he just kept his head down plowed through them and became the World Champion on the Grandest Stage of Them All. Before the fairy tale ending, Bryan had to face the man who was the exact antithesis of Bryan. He was not the populist choice. He was a member of the Kliq, given a forced push to the top, and married the boss' daughter. Triple H is a lightning rod of controversy. Some contend he is a great ring general and master of ring psychology while loathing his backstage politics and knack for burying opponents. Others call his entire reputation a sham manufactured by the WWE to work the fans into believing he was one of the greatest of all-time when he was just a mediocre wrestler that happened to be connected to the correct people. This made him the absolute perfect opponent for Daniel Bryan because no matter your feelings on Triple H, he represented everything corporate and artificial about pro wrestling while Daniel Bryan embodied the passion and humanity of pro wrestling.
Triple H offers his hand to begin the match and Bryan kicks it away only to roll him up quickly. Bryan came to play, brutha. Bryan is on him with kicks and HHH bails. Stephanie, who is a total smokeshow tonight with those short shorts, exhorts The Game while Bryan now offers his hand. What I love about the early part of the match is that even though Bryan shoulder is taped and HHH targets it, Bryan does not immediately act like his arm is such excoriating pain that he cant compete. There are levels of pain. Bryan is able to fight through the first couple attacks because of his determination and he can't afford it to be worked on. Yes, it causes a wince, but it is a just brief inconvenience. It is a babyface shine that is truly earned that culminates with Bryan hitting a tornado DDT from the apron and the somersault off the top rope onto The Game. Triple H seems shaken from this onslaught and has underestimated Daniel Bryan. He is able to cause Bryan to lose his balance on the top rope. HHH is not going to fuck around and looks to end this early with a Pedigree on the announce table, but the feisty Bryan fights out so Triple H quickly switches gears and wrenches the bad shoulder right into the edge of the announce table. OUCH!
Only now does the heat on Bryan begin with Triple H destroying Bryan's arm and delivering the best limb work of his career. Stephanie laying the badmouth on Bryan, "Mess with the bull, you are going to get the horns" among others was just awesome. She would be such an excellent manager if she ever committed to it full time. Bryan's first hope spot is his signature suicide dive, but Triple H blasts him with a right hand. HHH hits a nasty back suplex with the arm behind the back on the apron. Triple H busting out the Crossface Chickenwing into the Crippler Crossface was wicked cool. Daniel Bryan will not be denied. He makes it to the ropes and begins his signature high-octane comeback. Triple H looks to cut him off with a suplex, but Bryan gets two Germans of his own. Triple H looks to stop the bleeding with a Chickenwing Crossface, but has to settle for the Tiger Suplex. Sick! Triple H showing he is not always a Cerebral Assassin mounts D-Bry on the top rope, which gives him the high ground and the chance to hit a sunset flip powerbomb. Daniel Bryan, comes flying with repeated running dropkicks, but on the third Triple H bursts out of the corner with a wicked lariat. I love the struggle of this match. You really feel like two men are fighting strongly for their respective ideologies and pride. Neither one wants to give an inch to the other. Triple H is getting anxious and abandons the arm work for the one surefire way to end this: The Pedigree. Bryan counters into a pinning attempt. Bryan's diving headbutt eats a boot and HHH right back on the arm with a Crippler Crossface, but Bryan reverses into the YESLock. Triple H after all the smack he talks feels desperate to end this. Bryan is a fucking maniac and hits not one full speed suicide dive, but two full-speed suicide dives! Bryan is feeling it, kip up, YES CHANTS! He is looking for that Knee that took down Cena. SPINEBUSTER~! PEDIGREE~! IT IS OVER 1-2-NO! NO! NO! YES! YES! YES! Honest to God, had totally forgotten Triple H hit the Pedigree in this match and Bryan kicked out. I actually saw him hit the Pedigree, my stomach dropped, then I remembered Bryan won and was ecstatic he kicked out. Now if that is not the hallmark of a great fucking match, I don't know what is! Triple H is flabbergasted and tries to beat the shit out of him while Stephanie screams in the background. This is Daniel Bryan's night and Triple H is coming to the realization he cannot overcome the power of Daniel Bryan and the People! Triple H desperately tries to pull the trigger on a second Pedigree, but Bryan wriggles out until finally EXPLODING KNEE~! 1-2-3! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Awesome match that feels like a real war and really mirrors Bryan's rise to the top. Bryan had to earn every single move in this match. His babyface shine was earned working through Triple H's early arm work. Then he fought tooth and nail not submit to HHH's killer arm work. From there, just when you think Bryan has the match won, it turns on a dime and Triple H hits his knockout shot and Bryan kicks out. They don't waste time with 8 million false finishes. Triple H gets his and keeps going for another Pedigree and then Exploding Knee knocks him out. Stephanie has to carry her husband out while they watch Daniel Bryan go to the main event of Wrestlemania. It is such a feel-good story combined with amazing fundamentals. I don't see a flaw. *****
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The year 2014 is complete. Next time, we will travel back in time to the worst drawing year of the Vince Jr era: 1995.
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