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Honestly, if the WWE never made CM PUNK "the guy"

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#1 ·
What makes any of you think they're going to make Daniel Bryan "the guy?"

The WWE has a distinctive type of wrestler that they like to support and get behind. This is something some of you guys are gonna have to accept if you're gonna continue to watch.

The only way I can really give an example of what it would be like to make Daniel Bryan the face of the company is comparing it to the Diva's division. Daniel Bryan being the face of the WWE would have been like Jazz, Molly Holly or Victoria being the face of the Diva's division when Trish was around.

It's just not happening!
 
#2 ·
Its WWE versus its audience

Its audience wants one thing, WWE gives it another and refuses to budge while simultaneously insulting everyone's intelligence and acting like everything's going swimmingly

The audience fights back, and the cycle continues

Its like a never ending match, appropriately enough.
 
#15 ·
Daniel Bryan is a huge draw, CM Punk isn't.

Daniel Bryan is already the man.
 
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#19 ·
CM Punk was never a big draw in WWE, even when he was WWE Champion. These guys have to draw huge if they want to be "the guy" in WWE.
 
#26 ·
Punk's the best overall guy of this era, bar none, but bryan is way more over now than punk was. Admittedly, punk got screwed by booking more than bryan even though he was champion, but bryan was ignored completely for a long while, and it pushed his overness way further than punk was.
 
#30 ·
I agree and there have been similar instance but nothing like Bryans.

I mean, Austin himself said of Bryan: "It's the damndest crowd reaction I've ever seen" and "I used to get a pretty damned good reaction but I've never seen anything like Daniel Bryan's"
 
#34 ·
Daniel Bryan and CM Punk are on equal terms of over... I know it's not popular to say but it's true. If CM Punk returned anytime soon his pop would be enormous. They were are Rock/Austin for this era and Vince fucked it up... I don't know how you fuck up a gold mine like that.
 
#37 ·
Daniel Bryan and CM Punk are on equal terms of over... I know it's not popular to say but it's true. If CM Punk returned anytime soon his pop would be enormous. They were are Rock/Austin for this era and Vince fucked it up... I don't know how you fuck up a gold mine like that.
Have less than zero idea of what you actually want, and end up pushing a guy with less talent than most jobbers?
 
#35 ·
Well I guess Reigns could be considered a draw in the sense that people will tune in wanting to watch car-crash television and see "WWE in bizarro world".

Basically like a Canadian/British broadcast every single night only ten times worse.
 
#38 ·
Well Bryan is 100 times more over than Reigns ever will I doubt Reigns is gonna be the next guy when he flops if he doesn't turn heel and finds a gimmick other than the big guy from the shield even though Ambrose taller than him.

Also I've been thinking a lot how is Roman going hang up with Brock in the ring? I mean freaking Brock is a fucking machine. And bleee dat isn't even close to match his ring skills.
 
#52 ·
Not getting into the Punk vs Bryan shit as I love Punk and enjoy Bryan a shit load.

All I can say is the writing was on the wall with Punk when he had to job to HHH at NOC in 2011, no one noticed it but that was plain and simply done to shut the fans up and literally tell them to keep dreaming if they think "their guy" can be the one to lead the company.

Same with Bryan was treated like shit, due to fan backlash and now it's evident to me the launching of the WWE Network he was squeezed into the mainevent at Mania 30.

Otherwise they had no intentions of putting him there.

They were more then happy to see Orton vs Batista happen. Shows you what the WWE's mindframe has been and always will be.
 
#55 ·
I'm going to be completely unbiased here as a Bryan "mark" and a somewhat Punk fan and say they are both equal in terms of overness

If Punk had been legit screwed around during his peak, and didn't get his long ass title reign, the fans would have rallied behind him and forced him into WM main events/title pictures/etc. The fact WWE gave him a long title reign gave the fans no reason to really rally behind him as he got his chance to shine in most of their eyes

Equally, if Bryan had left the company last year, I'm sure his name would've been chanted for just as long as Punk's has been
 
#62 · (Edited)
Exactly, Cm Punk never was screwed for the eyes of the casuals, he got a long title reign, he was in the title picture during his peak but hardly in the main event, HHH buried him in the prime of the summer of punk, but he was playing the sympathetic babyface role, so people didn't realize how fucking bad was that, Cm Punk was the most over wrestler and was outselling Cena during his peak (something Bryan never did), yet he never was treated as the top guy.

But even if the harcore marks knew something was wrong, the crowd didn't have any reason the shit on the show. Vince managed a way to keep the fans happy and screw up Cm Punk potential at the same time.
 
#58 · (Edited)
They can start by dropping The Face Of The Company horseshit. In particular, where you expect one guy to represent the company for upwards of 5-10 years. The most successful Era in this company had multiple guys constantly stepping up and the title moving and none of them were considered this mystical The Face of The Company. Even Ruthless Aggression Era had the title being swapped pretty regular. But no, now we have this.

And that guy is never the technical wrestlers, because those fuckers get hurt. No, go get yourself a guy who can barely wrestle with GQ-level looks and make the matches be less about having a good match and more about getting that guy through the match without getting hurt. Lord help us if they get the bright idea that they can continue their Lesnar booking of having the title defended on the top 4-5 PPV's of the year only so as to protect their golden goose. Fuck that.
 
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