WWE: Top 5 best moments in SummerSlam history

4. The beginning of the Yes Movement – SummerSlam 2013

Speaking of Daniel Bryan, now is the perfect time to bring up another rare loss that John Cena received the year before, this time against Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. Going into the match, Bryan had been pegged as a B+ player not in Cena’s league, mostly due to his much smaller size and stature. Plus, Cena was obviously viewed as much higher on the totem pole in WWE than Bryan was at the time as the latter continued to rise up the ranks.

Still, against all odds, Bryan won the match and his first WWE Championship for a reign that lasted all of five minutes before he would receive a Pedigree from Triple H and a Money in the Bank cash-in from Randy Orton. While a heel turn from Triple H and a cash-in from Orton were all predicted by several fans and critics beforehand, few – if anyone – at the time could have imagined that a 5’10 indie darling would be booked to not only defeat the biggest star WWE produced in the last decade, but win clean.

What makes this moment even more significant was that it kicked off the now infamous Yes Movement that forced WWE to push Daniel Bryan into the main event of WrestleMania XXX and have him win the WWE Championship in “a miracle on Bourbon Street.”