10 Times WWE Gave The Internet Wrestling Community What They Wanted

2. The Yes Movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQYSuG1GFY Daniel Bryan, the man who started his career in Ring of Honor as Bryan Danielson, is a phenomenon. The Yes Movement, as it were, has been sweeping the WWE Universe off its feet ever since Bryan won his first World Heavyweight Championship in 2011. Coming up from ROH, working his way through the first season of NXT, the IWC was enraged that Bryan even had to bother going through developmental. Worse yet, his mentor on NXT was the Miz, a man who had barely been in the business six years. Outrageous. The WWE kept Bryan in their minds, leaving him on a slow burn. The IWC was not happy, but there was little they could do aside from voice their displeasure. Slowly, as the Yes chant began to catch on and the casual audience began to go along with the IWC line of thinking, the WWE pulled the trigger. They put Bryan into high-profile feuds, gave him a strong run as the World Heavyweight Champion and began prepping Bryan for bigger and better things. The IWC was getting everything they wanted, but they just didn't know it yet. And now, as we head into WrestleMania 30, Bryan is poised to get the biggest push of his entire career. After all these years of screaming and yelling, one of their heroes is going to work a main event match at WrestleMania. It's almost a guarantee that Bryan will be leaving WrestleMania 30 as the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and Yes his way down the aisle of Monday Night Raw as the main event player we all knew he was.
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