The ongoing feud between Daniel Bryan and Big Show has to be my absolute favorite in WWE right now, hands-down. Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers anywhere, and Big Show is still a tremendous worker when he's given something good to do, so a big part of my love for this angle comes from the always different, always interesting matches the two put on. Even though I can't conceive of any believable way that Bryan got Big Show into a single-leg Boston Crab on Raw this week, I still love the type of giantslayer stories the two have been telling most every week on SmackDown and this week in a solid, entertaining Raw match that made excellent use of AJ and the preexisting storyline involving the three.

But what elevates the two's matches from simply entertaining to truly fascinating is Daniel Bryan's character, which is easily one of wrestling's most interesting, nuanced and many-faceted. I plan on getting more into it in this week's Straight Shoot, but the best part about Bryan's heel character is that he's not actually doing anything wrong, aside from occasional shouting about being Vegan, and even that's debatable depending on the status of your PETA membership. Bryan isn't a sneering Iago-like villain - he's a well-rounded character with a goal he wants to accomplish in spite of incredible odds. Tweak things slightly to the right and he could easily be seen as simply an underdog, or even a cunning face.