Did anyone have a better run in a year than Shawn Michaels in 1996?

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KEEPITTRILLA said:
i never said he was the biggest draw, youre missing the point :beli:
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No you said who had a better run and the guys i mentioned all had better runs in a year span. Angle was winning titles left and right when he debuted and Lesnar was making Raw Smackdown's bytch, and did you forget how Rock & Stone Cold had the whole world watching every monday. I'm also looking at your previous post and your thread is completely flawed because you're admitting to not watching certain years, so how can you say wrestler A had a better run if you didn't see wrestlers B,C,D during their reigns?
 
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Look back at his matches, the man had classics that year ( as if he didn't have classics EVERY year)

You could argue he literally kept WWF alive while nWo was going strong.

Definitely the GOAT. Imagine if he had top rate workers to work with in his prime..

97 he had a chip on his shoulder, an edge..he prob had that in real life too and it just carried over. His 96-98 run was just...........the best ever.

Fools that don't understand wrestling will argue draws..yet they don't understand that ratings are just as contingent upon the "era" and vibe of the particular company as a whole than it is anything else. Draws come when the planets and moon align and you happen to have a special talent or two on the roster. A special talent or two alone isn't going to draw if the company is going through either a transition (like wwf was ) or if their is a severe lack of overall talent at the time combined with poor writing and creativity (like wwf clearly had at the time)
 
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Even if we're only talking '96 work rate (which would be the only argument you could have for Michaels)... no. Japan was killing everything.
 
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I'm a big HBK fan but Ric Flair in 1989 might be the greatest single year for a wrestler in history. (Austin's year in 98 was fantastic and would have passed Flair's year if Austin's match quality was great, but it wasn't. Austin's good matches were in 2001)
 
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Yep. Multiple dudes, but for me, guys who easily had an equal year (and in the case of two guys, better years) were:

Austin in 98
Rock in 99
Kurt in 00
Brock in 02.

Honorable mention is Goldberg at his most white hot, and I think even Big Dave had a cool ass 05, too.
 
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