5 awesome things which happened on SmackDown Live this week - 17 July 2018

#2 The Miz and Daniel Bryan kick-start their long-awaited programme

Anyone else finds that head just plain creepy?

No one wanted to see Daniel Bryan team up with Shane McMahon at WrestleMania, no one wanted to see Daniel Bryan take on Big Cass in two disastrous matches, and no one wanted to see Daniel Bryan and Kane lose at Extreme Rules to two men that like to hit people with hammers.

And thank heavens that WWE has finally given the people what they wanted for almost two years - Daniel Bryan vs The Miz.

This is a rivalry that begun all the way back in NXT, not the NXT we know and love today, but the crappy looney tunes version no one likes to talk about.

This was a feud that has been building for almost a decade now, and this may be WWE's last chance to book the perfect blow-off match that WWE aficionados have been fantasizing about for so many years.

And it seems as if the creative team has already started building towards that fantasy match, as this week's episode of SmackDown Live included a brilliant segment heralded by the Miz himself as he held a funeral for Team Hell No.

This whole skit was incredibly enchanting as Miz laid down a violent verbal assault on Daniel Bryan and Kane, this prompted Bryan to come out as he couldn't take any more of Miz's brutally honest remarks.

From then on the usual stuff happened, Bryan beat the living daylights out of the self-proclaimed A-lister, the paul bearers got caught up in the storm and Kane's mannequin head was creepily just there.

This sets the tone for this programme as Miz and Bryan have one of the best fleshed out backstories in terms of narrative build and thus allows them to do the one thing that is left to cap off this fantastic rivalry - fight.