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But drawing power is such a massive element that to decide who is the better performer without taking it into account is to do a big injustice. By your criteria, Hulk Hogan wouldn't figure into anyones "greatest ever" list, yet how can you overlook the most famous wrestler of all time?
If you want to simply decide who was the better in-ring performer specifically, that's fine. Leave drawing ability out of it.
But being a draw is such an important aspect of being a wrestler, so much a part of the job description, that it's hard to ignore it if you're assessing the career of one. Al Snow, for example, was one of the better in-ring performers of the 90s, but he couldn't draw flies with a mouthful of shit. Andre the Giant was a huge draw for decades, yet he was the absolute pits, even when he was healthy. You have to take so many things into account.
And if you just wanted to measure Bret and Shawn on in-ring alone, they're too close a match (in different ways) for me to bother trying to make a call.
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