5 Great WWE Raw matches you should watch again

#1 John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels

John Cena and Shawn Michaels staged an unexpected marathon classic.

The WrestleMania 23 main event outing between John Cena and Shawn Michaels was a perfectly respectable outing. Nonetheless, it left a lot of fans wanting more, given HBK’s ‘Mania legacy and the spotlight afforded to him here.

When the two staged a non-title rematch for an episode of Raw, pre-taped in the UK, the general expectation was we’d get a lite version of the match we had already seen. Instead, WWE treated us to a surprise nearly hour-long epic, which Michaels wound up winning cleanly. Despite a much-anticipated Edge vs. Randy Orton match being on the card the same night, this one went the distance and was easily the best free TV match from this era of WWE. It’s easy enough to forget it given there was no title change and it was more of a coda to the WrestleMania program between these two than something WWE meaningfully followed upon. Nonetheless, it’s a classic worth revisiting.