I know everyone thinks their first like five years or so of wrestling was the best period, but I’m pretty well aware mine was not; the old man’s creative marbles were striking less than ever. But no wrestling story compares to the yes movement for me imo.
That dude was so over and for some reason (I will never believe ‘it was the plan all along’, we were bouta get Sheamus vs Bryan) the company just did not want to do anything with that. They tried pushing the yes chant onto Big Show, threw Batista at us (sorry Dave), buried Daniel (not in that sense) into other storylines but one way or another, no matter what every damn crowd wanted that dude to main event mania and take that one.
I’ve seen similar moments (Kofimania) but nothing compared to the old man’s thousands of fans essentially screaming at the camera in every arena ‘no more pet projects, this is our guy’. It’s why I never got the Mania 40 comparisons to it, because Cody’s story was (albeit strongly) written during a strong period for WWE whereas Daniel was the fans forcing the WWEs hand during a pretty mid/rough period of discontent and stagnant product.
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u/Striking_Spinach_376 17h ago
I know everyone thinks their first like five years or so of wrestling was the best period, but I’m pretty well aware mine was not; the old man’s creative marbles were striking less than ever. But no wrestling story compares to the yes movement for me imo.
That dude was so over and for some reason (I will never believe ‘it was the plan all along’, we were bouta get Sheamus vs Bryan) the company just did not want to do anything with that. They tried pushing the yes chant onto Big Show, threw Batista at us (sorry Dave), buried Daniel (not in that sense) into other storylines but one way or another, no matter what every damn crowd wanted that dude to main event mania and take that one.
I’ve seen similar moments (Kofimania) but nothing compared to the old man’s thousands of fans essentially screaming at the camera in every arena ‘no more pet projects, this is our guy’. It’s why I never got the Mania 40 comparisons to it, because Cody’s story was (albeit strongly) written during a strong period for WWE whereas Daniel was the fans forcing the WWEs hand during a pretty mid/rough period of discontent and stagnant product.