10 Best WWE Promos Of The Decade

3. Talking Smack

The Miz to Daniel Bryan

Talking Smack - August 23rd, 2016

"Let me tell you about a coward. Let me tell you about a guy who tells his WWE fans, people that he loves that he will be back - he PROMISES THEM - “I promise you, I will be back in one year’s time to claim this title.” But you didn’t, Daniel, did you? But I’m the coward. I’m the one who doesn’t love the fans?! You love that WWE ring, you love wrestling. You love being right in that wrestling ring and you love wrestling, right? Well why don’t you quit? Why don’t you quit and go to the bingo halls with your indie friends, Daniel?"

Daniel Bryan's stunned face said it all.

After calling wrestlers who work WWE's safer Sports Entertainment style "cowards", Daniel Bryan handed the floor over to The Miz. One of the very few men in the company who have never so much as stepped foot in an independent ring and for whom the house style is everything they've ever known. What followed shocked everyone.

When Bryan eventually returned to the ring a year later, this promo recirculated as the perfect building blocks for a feud that could potentially be WrestleMania main-event worthy. Instead the best WWE could muster was a mixed-tag match with their wives, and a bizarre roll-up finish in Australia. Still, we live in hope.