10 Parallels In Daniel Bryan And Chris Benoit's Careers
8. CM Punk And Eddie Guerrero
Key to the rise of junior heavyweight-style grapplers in World Wrestling Entertainment has been the almost necessity for those performers to have other wrestlers employed at the same time as them who share their well-traveled journeyman to major-level superstar rise. Wrestlemania XX ended with Chris Benoit sharing the middle of the ring with ECW and New Japan mate Eddie Guerrero. Of course, insofar as Daniel Bryan, if you believe his Ring of Honor and North American independent wrestling cohort CM Punk, Punk quitting WWE is what allowed Bryan the Wrestlemania XXX spotlight. While not the same as the Benoit/Guerrero moment, the spectre of CM Punk? Possibly right next to Bryan in the ring in New Orleans.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
