WWE: Ranking the 10 very best feuds of the 2010’s

8. Daniel Bryan vs. The Authority

For a storyline that happened almost entirely on accident, it’s almost entirely perfect. We’ve been told time and time again by different sources – and even saw the original WrestleMania card format firsthand – that a main event featuring Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania was never in the original plans for WWE.

Even though the set up was perfect heading into SummerSlam 2013 of the corporate Authority denying Bryan his time in the sun because he’s a B+ Player, it turned out to be more so a case of art imitating life. But just like in storyline, Bryan fought harder and his fans got louder to the point that his coronation just could not be ignored any longer.

Just thinking about it all from beginning to end is almost miraculous to see how it turned out.

7. Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Flair

The Women’s Revolution started with the women putting on incredible matches on NXT, but there was work that still needed to be done on the main roster, as evident by the #GiveDivasAChance hashtag that came about. Over the course of a year between 2015 and 2016, WWE re-built its women’s division with little bread crumbs throughout the year.

First by given them longer matches, then by rebranding their Divas as women, then by introducing a new Women’s Championship. But before the women’s division truly felt whole and complete, they needed a definitive feud that reshaped how mainstream audiences watching Raw and SmackDown should think about women’s matches in WWE.

That’s where the Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Flair feud came into play. Between the top of the summer and introduction of the Draft to the very end of 2016, Banks served as the Ricky Steamboat to Flair’s … uh, Flair.

Whether the match time was a Street Fight, Iron Man match, or a Hell in a Cell, these two were perfect adversaries and redefined how the masses looked at women, proven they were just as capable of putting on incredible matches as the men were.