5 unforgettable WWE SummerSlam main event conclusions

#1 Daniel Bryan Vs. John Cena (SummerSlam 2013)

Triple H attacked Daniel Bryan to gift Randy Orton's the WWE Championship with his Money in the Bank contract.

Unlike most matches in the WWE, the main event of SummerSlam 2013 was decided when Raw General Manager Brad Maddox said that John Cena could decide whoever his opponent would be at the Biggest Party of the Summer. Cena picked Daniel Bryan, to which Triple H eventually inserted himself as the special guest referee. The whole build-up to this match actually had very little physical confrontation between the two, but it didn’t stop what would become a SummerSlam classic.

On the night, the Staples Center was very partisan in Bryan’s favor throughout the entire match, with early chants of ‘You can’t wrestle’ directed at Cena. But as the match unraveled, those chants turned into "This is awesome."

This match was wrestling at its purest, which involved many near falls and near tap outs. At one stage, the match was so emotional that the two wrestlers started slapping each other, with the WWE Universe hanging on every moment.

It would take nearly 30 minutes of wrestling and a running knee before Bryan finally captured his first WWE Championship. The night didn’t end there as Randy Orton appeared with his Money in the Bank contract. However, Bryan didn’t appear to be phased in, and Orton appeared to have second thoughts about cashing in but when Triple H then attacked an unsuspecting Bryan, Orton’s Money in the Bank cash-in became a certainty.

Even though Daniel Bryan’s first WWE Championship victory proved to be bittersweet, as Orton walked away as Champion the same night, this match was of a very high quality, and eventually delivered arguably one of the most unforgettable conclusions in SummerSlam’s 30 plus year history.