Thread: Most important wrestler to debut post-2000?
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Old 05-05-2009, 10:51 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Outsider View Post
I don't think we can saw who the most important is yet. There are a few young guys starting to come through now who could have a far bigger impact on the industry in the future who aren't being used to 100% of their potential yet.

Don't get me wrong, there is a very serious chance that the WWE could drop the ball with them, as it so often does, but with people like CM Punk, MVP and John Morrison all being far closer to that total package of talent and charmisma than Cena and Orton, you have to think that their future could be far brighter.

If used right, and if they started the main event at around the same time the industry moves into an upswing (which it will..........eventually), they could potentially be massive stars.

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And actually, I would say people like Soama Joe, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels have already had a massive impact on the industry already this decade.

A few years ago there was only one international company. Now there is two and with ROH showing an intent to one day get there.

This is in no small part due to their wrestlers who have never been of any importanance in the WWE. But by building the foundations of the industry beneath the WWE, they have made it possible for, at least in the future, the WWE to have to enter a period of competition before. And that will be far more important than one individual superstar ever can be.
Nice post. Someone like Samoa Joe gains weight in the argument when you really look at what he's done for both TNA and ROH. Sure, Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles were both part of ROH, too, but I don't think too many people would argue with you if you said that Samoa Joe's dominant run in ROH was the defining moment in ROH becoming a rising entity.

Plus, you're very right. For example, if this deal with Pepsi is inked, and they do decide to use CM Punk as the Pepsi Boy, then it that will be a level of mainstream recognition that John Cena may not have even reached. If you give some of these guys a few years, they might actually rise to the surface the same way that many important guys did in the past.
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