30 Best WWE Photos Of 2016

by John Bills

1. Thank You Bryan

1 Daniel Bryan Retirement
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Professional wrestling isn't real. We all know this of course, as we watch our favourite characters excel at their performance art week after week after week. We cry with them, we feel their pain, we share their successes and we celebrate their joy. Despite this, professional wrestling sometimes becomes all too real.

Earlier this year Daniel Bryan was forced to retire due to consistent injuries and concussions, and he took to the ring to inform his adoring fans. It was an emotional moment in wrestling history, as a man who had worked harder than most to get to the top had his career taken away from him by his own body.

The promo was sad enough, but anyone who had managed to hold back their tears had no choice but to let go when this picture of Bryan backstage surfaced. It was an all-too-candid moment on an all-too-upsetting night, an image that showed us all just how real professional wrestling is.

2016 was a strange year in professional wrestling, a year full of wonderful memories and magical moments. In amongst all of this an inspiration was forced to call it a day, his dream ended by the limitations of the human body. It may be the saddest, but this is also the most moving WWE photograph of 2016.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.