Hogan.. Michaels.. Austin.. Rock.. Cena.. Next, Daniel Bryan

[d21lewis]

RVDondaPC said:

pokoko said:
Quite honestly, there is no reason to give the WWE the benefit of the doubt. Their recent track record has more cases of mismanagement than success stories. The attempt to make The Miz a main event guy, the failure to push Ziggler when he was hot, pushing ADR over and over, squandering Ryback's momentum--there are a lot of mistakes there. Perhaps you still have faith after all of that but I'm afraid I do not.

The irony of that all is that Daniel Bryan is the biggest star the WWE has produced since John Cena. He's bigger than even CM Punk now. So the WWE is doing something right. Winning the Championship doesn't make a star. Getting entire stadiums at other sporting events to chant "Yes! Yes! Yes!" and getting the Super Bowl champs to shout a wrestler out after winning the Super Bowl. That is what a star is. The WWE has made Daniel Bryan a star. 

He's a star in spite of the WWE.  He already had fans from his debut in NXT due to his indie exposure.  They fired him when the Nexus became a thing.  After he came back due to fan outrage, the guy showed he could do no wrong.  As a face we loved him.  As a heel, we loved him.  When he turned on AJ, we loved him.  When he won Elimnation Chamber we loved him.  When he lost to Sheamus we loved him.  The guy is just over as hell.  The WWE tried to buy him but the fans wouldn't allow it.  Like they've said in documentaries of The Rock, Austin, HHH, and others--the fans pick who the stars are and the fans are always right.

Thing is, despite doing a lot of things I don't agree the higher ups in the WWE are really quite smart.  I've been watching WWE Network and the various shows on there.  There's one where Sgt. Slaughter, Jim Ross, Michael Hayes, and somebody I can't remember just sit around discussing the business.  The things they say, I just sit there in awe and drink it in like a young student learning from the wise sensei.