Following peaks and troughs from 2010-2019, it has to be Daniel Bryan... this is a guy who's too good at what he does to be denied, and his main WWE run began at the start of this decade.
He dead-ass needs a ten-year retrospective/highlight-reel. We've been eating good off all that's gone on between him winning the United States Championship in '10 against Miz to the modern-day face and heel classic against Kofi for the WWE Championship in '19
Man has stayed humble and positive through it all. And reminded us to recycle
actually, wwe by proxy.
of their purposeful negative burial declining draw dynamic based practices.
actually stifled Bryan Danielson wholeheartedly as daniel bryan.
by making the workrate so condensed.
from when Danielson was the workrate arguable goat tied with aj.
So the son in law and any other inhouse created wwe bum could keep up.
that I have to count that window from Daniel Bryan.
having to create the last windfall of the indy heroes winning.
when and how bryan went to the main event of mania and also winning.
yet from that time to now.
counting as closing out the decade.
i have to count that window of time.
as being relevent of high importance to the discussion.
which counts as a period of non-activity because of injury.
or in this cause a complete neg void in workrate quality.
coupled with the wwe purposeful burial declining draw dynamic.
which is why i went with lethal over aj and db.
aj was already pretty much just being in the larger promotions away.
from being the goat by any criteria worth discussing.
where at this point,...
there is no need to even further discuss the goat of wrasslin anymore ever.
As the wrasslin goat is, aj styles.
moving forward and in the foreseeable future.
yet if Bryan was capable of maneuvering the admin or health issues.
plus work behind the curtain.
to avoid the obvious ensuing wwe burial.
from declining Bryan's draw by systematic kitchen sink.
to the full toolshed, by the way of the shovel meets burial based proxy.
or the quite simply, the wwe purposeful burial decling draw dynamic.
with lethal,..
jay endured the period of decline of draw by proxy from a promotion.
as roh has seriously had issues with promotions and consistent quality booking.
yet during those down periods of this decade.
lethal has been a key cog consistently.
on the books of roh as a lenchpin re-establishing some beacon of quality gain.
to the roh promotion and the boom of numerous smaller and larger indy scene promotions by proxy as well.
plus, re-elevated others by putting them over.
or having a program centered around workrate.
to put over whomever lethal was cross ring from.
plus provide workrate company workhorse rub and draw.
to said person opposite him via work.
on top of doing the higher quality character work via promo or vignette.
with lesser quality vehicles in administration and lower number of quality parts.
from production to capital promotion cost being inferior, as well.
especially in comparison to the larger promotions.
limiting the draws of any and everything globally centered or attached to wrasslin.
to such an extent.
that the lesser promotions have a window of opportunity.
to create and amplify a higher quality product based draw.
within this lower burial quality of the wwe as well.
which is why in that wwe mainstream casual negative declining draw based dynamic.
the indie heroes who saved wrasslin.
eventually were forced by the wwe declining draw based dynamic.
to align with the wwe by proxy.
in that compromise of those dynamics being at play.
simply because of the wwe's former monopoly.
it caused the former Indy hero goat candidates.
to have to compromise by proxy.
to the wwe negative declining draw based dynamic.
which in turn lowered all of wrasslin's overall fluid innovative creative based dynamic.
Which was made into a thing.
by and from the innovative impact of the Daniels aj workrate series.
which would be the series.
that created the windfall.
that eventually would topple the wwe monopoly.
thus destroying the former wwe smash mouth son in law mainevent west texas rednrck midstlantic clique in-ring workrate style.
which was lifted from the former past two goats in the flair and his protege, scsa.
Then and amalgamated in lower quality by the son in law, cripple ache.
if not for the wwe declining draw and son in law dynamics.
being at play in every facet of the wwe former industry based monopoly.
causing negative career declining draw globally to every facet of wrasslin.
a play could have been made for a number of wrasslers.
to say they were a major decade all time great and best of the time period consistently.
if lashey was elevated to brock status immediately in wwe.
I would have said lashley.
as lashley still has a higher quality series of matches and program character than lesnar in tna.
of which if we compare lashley has been better, than the typical and obvious lesnar pick.
as both , lesnar and lashley.
mirror one another in exact principal.
via program as a characters and on screen works.
plus lashley, as a character.
in tna formerly, had a larger and much higher sample scale size as a on screen character.
plus numerous individual focused content chracter based programs.
which lead to numerous classic series of back to back matches and character based programs.
week to week, twice in three different top face of the promotion programs.
in two tna and wwe company directional and content based re-launches.
that both mirror one another in basic similar premise to easily compare the two outside race as a simple difference.
in those programs,.. lashley was not carried.
as lesnar was carried match to main event singles match.
where lesnar has likely been carried in three to four company major relaunches.
in that comparison lesnar is not near lashley in real discussion.
nor was lashley shackled by the confines of the wwe negative purposeful burial declining draw dynamic in tna.
I could easily have said lashley, was the guy of the decade.
if not for the elephant in the room being.
the purposeful burial declining draw dynamic of the wwe.
a play could have been made, rather easily.
as well, for drew McIntyre in the super heavy convo.
cage would have also been a name i would have pointed to.
if cage was around longer.
in a much larger nonhated on space promotion to promotion.
Cage could also have gain note in the discussion for that best of the decade dynamic.
if aries never went to the wwe. I could have said Aries as a dark horse as well.
yet that injury offset his trajectory.
during the wwe talent raid of the indie heroes during the former monopoly.
I also would have made simple plays for:
the ace
rainmaker
shinsuke
omega
yet all are more or less the same.
when compared to cena to orton and lesnar domestically in perception in Asia.
yet aj went and exposed all of Japan in his bullet club run.
further creating and distancing himself as the obvious heir.
to the title of goat.
as aj seized the impending goat title.
As soon as his wwe contract during the former monopoly was signed.
plus debuted as the eventual face of the promotion.
during a period of the wwe former industry controlled monopoly.
.
Which is why i eliminated any other indy promotion guy from across the pond.
if roode never went to wwe.
roode, could have had a shot at this as well.
as roode is still a better booking choice character in basic premise than the son in law himself cripple ache. So as soon as roode via the former monopoly was signed to the wwe. Roode was definitely going to face the purposeful declining draw burial dynamic.
totally housed and fully ingrained in the totality of the wwe.
if punk never rightfully took his ball and went home.
I could have said punk easily too.
as punk was one of the very few of the indy heroes who saved wrasslin.
Who stylistically and originally brought the indy hero style to the wwe.
plus, punk was capable of working a smash mouth indy amalgamated derivative style of work.
within punk's own higher quality draw dynamic.
amongst the son in law's defiant in-house wwe burial declining draw dynamic.
That politically and passive aggressive administrative coup based wars of attrition.
punk would succumb to.
where eventually, in good faith and health being withheld in that wwe company dynamic was lost. In that systematic purposeful burial decline of a draw dynamic based environment.
with the wwe beig a company withholding simple basic rights.
punk was going to be eventually forced.
to rightfully take his ball and go home.
whEn i really think about it.
plus all those factors at play.
plus the obvious wwe monopoly..taking center stage in this discussion.
as a cause to definite quality markers.
not being consistently kept by hof legendary workers.
Lethal is the guy, this decade.
Art Barr
Because i know, like the Mark Henry go, that sombody gonna get they ass kicked!
...and then Vader proceeded to do just that
to becoming That Dude. His series with Omega was great, but the Shibata match is the stuff of legend.
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I don't agree with your pick but hard to argue against it.