Monday Night Raw Results 12/30/13: WWE Raw Recap Dec. 30 2013: Brock Lesnar returns, Royal Rumble main event set, Daniel Bryan makes a big decision

The Dec. 30, 2013 edition of Monday Night Raw (the final one of the year) emanates live from Richmond, Va. and opens with CM Punk, who cuts a promo about his year in 2013. He says he cannot call it his year, but The Shield might call it theirs.

The Shield comes out and Punk says the three of them could beat anyone, so he wants a one-on-one match with the best. The three of them start arguing about who the best among them is, and Seth Rollins says he wants to prove himself. Raw General Manager Brad Maddox comes out and makes the match official for right now. Punk connects with the GTS for the win.

Brad Maddox is backstage with The Authority, and Maddox talks about taking the next step. Daniel Bryan comes in and says he wants to get his hands on Bray Wyatt before the year ends, but Maddox says he has to earn it first by fighting Luke Harper. If he wins, then he fights Erick Rowan. If he wins that, then he can face Bray Wyatt tonight. Bryan accepts and leaves and Stephanie McMahon tells Maddox and Triple H to announce the main event for the Royal Rumble. She walks out onto the stage and shows a video package to celebrate WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton. She announces that Orton will defend his title in a one-on-one match against John Cena at the pay-per-view.

Dolph Ziggler defeats Curtis Axel with the Zig Zag.

Big E. Langston retains the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Fandango when he survives the top rope leg drop and hits the challenger with the Big Ending.

Booker T hosts a New Years Eve toast on stage with multiple WWE Superstars and Divas. Bad News Barrett interrupts by rising above the stage in a cherry picker and does his usual routine, this time about how 2014 will be no better than 2013.

Renee Young interviews Damien Sandow backstage and starts to talk about the WWE App vote for his opponent, but Sandow stops her and says he does not care who he faces. He says he is sick of the terrible gimmick matches has been put in recently and wants to end the year on a high note. If he cannot win tonight, then he quits.

Jerry "The King" Lawler reveals that Sandow will face The Great Khali (the other choices were Kofi Kingston and The Miz). Sandow defeats Khali with a roll up.

Brodus Clay faces R-Truth with Xavier Woods on commentary. Woods distracts Brodus by calling out The Funkadactyls onto the stage, and R-Truth capitalizes to pick up the win.

Triple H comes out and says 2013 was a banner year under The Authority, but 2014 will be unlike anything we've seen before and asks everyone to welcome back Brock Lesnar, who comes out with Paul Heyman. Triple H shakes hands with both Heyman and Lesnar and leaves. Heyman says that Lesnar is not back to settle old scores because he has no old scores. He says that whoever emerges from the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble will lose to the "self-declared No. 1 Contender" Brock Lesnar.

Lesnar takes the mic and says he does not care who wins and he does not have to win the Royal Rumble because the line starts with him. He dares anyone to try to stop him. Heyman says no one would try to do that and spouts off some more but Mark Henry's music hits and he makes his way toward the ring. Lesnar assaults The World's Strongest Man before he even gets into the ring, but Henry tosses him over the barricade. Lesnar recovers and smashes Henry right through the barricade. He picks up Henry and plants him with an F5 on the floor in front of the announce table. Heyman tells him that is enough and they leave as trainers check on Henry.

A 10-Diva Tag Team match is next with five Total Divas (The Bella Twins, The Funkadactyls and Eva Marie) against five non-Total Divas (Kaitlyn, Summer Rae, Aksana, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes). The fight breaks down into a brawl and Aksana pins Nikki Bella after an elbow to the back of the neck.

Brad Maddox tells Triple H and Stephanie that the referee situation from the Sandow/Kahli match (it looked like Khali's shoulder was up) has been handled. Stephanie says she has been impressed with Maddox tonight but is looking forward to next week when Old School Raw takes place. Maddox says he has a few of her favorites lined up to appear, but she asks about Triple H's favorites. Maddox responds with a few "Woo!" but HHH tells him not to do that. He does it one more time and they all laugh.

Daniel Bryan starts off his Wyatt gauntlet against Luke Harper and takes him out with the running knee after about a 15-minute match. Erick Rowan comes in and soon tosses Bryan into the announce table. Rowan hits a fallaway slam from off the top turnbuckle, but Bryan rolls him up and gets the pin. Rowan continues to assault Bryan, but Harper pulls him off so that Bray Wyatt can enter the ring.

Bray Wyatt turns his back on Bryan but Harper and Rowan immediately rush the ring and assault him. Bray grabs a microphone and starts to sing. He says this is where their story ends and says things could have been different. He tells Bryan to open his eyes and that this is the end. Bryan says "you're right" and Bray hands him the mic. He says it again and adds "you were always right."

Bryan says no matter how many matches he won and no matter how loud the people cheered for him, Bray was always right that the machine would never let him win. He says the people's chants had no effect on those in charge and tells Bray that he is his. He asks to join the family. Bray extends his hand and Bryan reaches for it, but Bray pulls away. Bryan pulls himself up to his knees and mimics Bray's pose, but Bray hits him with Sister Abigail. Bray says "this is forever" and "this is going to change everything" and the Wyatts carry Bryan up the ramp. They stop halfway up and Bryan walks without help to the stage. The fans chant "No!" and Bryan looks around at them. They chant his name but he shakes his head, turns his back to the crowd and walks away with the Wyatts as the show goes off the air.