santmare12
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Post by santmare12 on Dec 19, 2019 20:29:02 GMT -5
Counting success, popularity, and overall impact to the business—better WWE career?
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Dec 19, 2019 20:32:45 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan. He stayed relevant the entire decade. Always had his working boots on. A retirement. And a comeback. WWE made it a point to not forget about him.
Wrestler. General Manager. Wrestler again.
Punk drifted out of the WWE realm for a good 5 years.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Dec 19, 2019 21:43:47 GMT -5
Punk because he managed to escape
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Dec 19, 2019 21:45:55 GMT -5
Punk looks mediocre compared to Bryan. I honestly thought that Punk looked awkward like hell whenever trying for the running knee strikes.
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Post by Cyno on Dec 19, 2019 21:51:46 GMT -5
I gotta go with Bryan. The funny thing is that Punk always struck me as the more "WWE" style guy. And his peak was phenomenal. But Bryan connected to the fans of all stripes in a genuine way that I haven't seen in ages. And last year and early this year he was low-key one of the best promos I've seen in a long-ass time. He always got a ton of accolades as a great technical wrestler, but he's really come into his own as a talker.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 1:07:03 GMT -5
Even when Punk was at his hottest in 2011-12, he was never as over as Bryan was during the Yes! Movement. Booking's obviously the reason for that so I don't put it on Punk, who was great, but I gotta go with Bryan.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2019 3:39:57 GMT -5
Punk.
Bryan is great. Punk basically made the industry into this weird blurred reality lines thing on his own.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 3:53:51 GMT -5
I can't get past the fact how crappy CM Punk's final months were in the company. So Daniel Bryan by default. Yes chants, WrestleMania XXX, Kofi vs. Bryan @ WrestleMania, etc. are far bigger than anything Punk achieved anyway...
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Dec 20, 2019 4:09:55 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan for me as he main evented WrestleMania.
Also every alignment turn he had was successful, Punk's heel turn in 2012 was awful and completely unnecessary.
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Post by nisidhe on Dec 20, 2019 10:43:00 GMT -5
Bryan has had the better overall career and has taken the "vanilla midget" moniker to new heights, I think. If anyone after Cena has come close to being that Face of the Company, Bryan really has come the closest. CM Punk has certainly left his mark, but his MMA foray has exposed the business somewhat in showing that not wrestlers are legit shooter types. Bryan has been the better overall asset to the business in general and to WWE in particular.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 14:55:05 GMT -5
As unintentionally funny as it was, Punk's UFC career is totally irrelevant to his WWE legacy IMO.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 20, 2019 15:26:23 GMT -5
Honestly? Pretty even and on-par.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 16:21:47 GMT -5
I can't get past the fact how crappy CM Punk's final months were in the company. So Daniel Bryan by default. Yes chants, WrestleMania XXX, Kofi vs. Bryan @ WrestleMania, etc. are far bigger than anything Punk achieved anyway... I like to pretend his match with Brock at SummerSlam 2013 was his last match. I try my best to block out the feud with Rybaxel, the feud with The Shield, and the Royal Rumble. |
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