10 Wrestling Storylines Totally Different To How You Remember
3. The Yes! Movement
How you remember it:
A captivating period of WWE television, even if it wasn't by the company's explicit design. Daniel Bryan was so ablaze as the fan's choice that WWE had no choice but to push the man they didn't want to push. He was the best wrestler in the world, and was so undeniable that WWE couldn't do its preferred brand of sports entertainment. Eventually, when Batista proved so unpopular, they had no choice but to give in and present itself as a stadium-sized super-indie, if only for one night.
What it was actually like:
It was more boring and oppressive than all that. Also, and this is written by somebody who paid money to fly across the Atlantic and actually watch the coronation, so it is in completely good faith: Bryan was actually hotter and better in the first half of 2013 than the second. The fatalistic booking was to blame, obviously; his three PPV matches with Randy Orton weren't on the level of their TV bangers, and WWE interpreted their own deflating f*ck finish policy as a sign that fans were losing interest in Bryan himself. Only when it felt that all hope was lost, during the Wyatt Family demotion, did they roar back to life.
WWE didn't listen to the audience either, not really; had CM Punk not walked, Bryan was doing 10 minutes with Sheamus.