10 Awesome Wrestlers Who Had Terrible Managers
1. Daniel Bryan (The Miz)
When The Miz and Daniel Bryan's paths crossed in 2010, it felt as though the world had been flipped upside-down.
On the one side was a man who had worked his proverbial off on the American indie scene for the best part of a decade, earning championships and plaudits alike in the rarified climes of Ring Of Honor and PWG. On the other, a former reality TV star who'd bluffed his way into a prominent position in the world's biggest wrestling organisation on the strength of his minor mainstream media relevance alone. It made perfect sense that one would manage the other. Unfortunately, it seemed as though WWE got their CVs mixed up.
The idea of Daniel Bryan as The Miz's 'rookie' on NXT, then still a glorified gameshow, felt purposefully calculated to raise the ire of independent wrestling fans. It's hard to believe it wasn't; Bryan could already wrestle rings around the relative parvenu Mizanin. Indeed, the ill-matched nature of their partnership was the undercurrent of the duo's 2018 bust-up, by which point The Miz had actually settled into the tenured veteran role he so incredulously assumed eight years prior.