10 WWE Stars Who Were TRULY Buried

5. Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan
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Stupid pale short guy we only hired because he had buzz doesn't even watch TV and is a vegan and is deformed and has no charisma and wrestles in front of high school gyms even though that gym is a sold out Hammerstein Ballroom and the guys next to him, the real future stars that look like 'WWE guys', sports entertain in front of empty chairs in FCW as if that somehow is better, and if we're not acknowledging that then they simply have never performed in front of people before because there are only two areas of wrestling: WWE, which they are debuting in, and the "indies", which is where vermin like this Bryan geek break each other's necks because they don't know how to work.

And relax.

What a profoundly detestable spree of toxic WWE bullsh*t this was, godd*mn, not that it mattered, because Bryan's talent in literally every criteria other than the one that counts ("being tall") was so transcendent that he got over to a point at which he was the only acceptable choice to headline WrestleMania XXX in front of 60,000 people.

Which WWE did everything, everything possible to not make happen because he is a stupid pale short guy we only hired because-

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