5 best WWE matches outside of the United States

#2 John Cena vs Shawn Michaels (RAW, April 23, 2007 - London, England)

Cena and Michaels tore the house down for nearly an hour.

No other match in RAW history was as long as this near 56-minute classic. Well, no other match that didn't specifically have a time stipulation, such as the 60-minute Iron Man match from a few years prior. This was a rematch of their also-classic match that served as the main event for WrestleMania 23. John Cena retained the WWE Championship at WrestleMania, but would go on, just a couple weeks later, to lose to Shawn Michaels in a non-title match on RAW in England.

It's not uncommon for WWE to run shows with minimal storyline advancement when they head over to the UK. Due to the 5-hour time difference, the show's results are already available to fans in the United States before the show even comes on the air. Superstars who are usually bad guys (mostly William Regal) become good guys for one night, and WWE does some fun wrestling and has a silly set dressed up with phone booths, a classic car, and two gigantic flags.

On this night, however, WWE wasn't messing around. Knowing that it was going to be a show in order to bring the fans an episode of TV on Monday night and not anything more spectacular, Vince McMahon gave the entire second hour (RAW was only 2 hours back then) to Shawn Michaels and John Cena, and just let them do whatever they wanted. They created magic.