10 Biggest WWE Changes Since Daniel Bryan Last Wrestled

10. Boom!

There'll never be a boom period resembling the one that propelled Vince McMahon to global wrestling dominance in the 1980s and brief mainstream acceptance at the dawn of the new millennium, but the industry as a whole is irrefutably thriving.

WWE took an enormous gamble cannibalising their pay-per-view business with the advent of the Network in 2014, but the streaming model has at least locked in a largely satisfied core audience, generating an alleged need for more content output than the organisation have ever threatened to deliver.

New Japan World is NJPW's slightly clunkier version, but it too has seen impressive growth as super-fans old and new flock to the service to bone up on inarguably the most consistent product of the last decade. They haven't had to cash out a pay-per-view audience to attract users, either.

And the independent scene hasn't ever been as vibrant, with companies old and new offering diverse work to wrestlers for the benefit of very willing, t-shirt purchasing punters. It's made the performers draws again - they are judged as much by how many tickets their face on the poster shifts, and the industry is better for it. Bryan Danielson's grin and beard would have flogged thousands. WWE couldn't have had that.