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With all due respect to the modern incarnation of WWE, there is absolutely no way that Shawn is as good as he once was. His work in 1996 may stand alone as the absolute best in-ring work anyone has ever done. He worked 5* matches at every single PPV (besides Beware of Dog, where the power outages caused a dead crowd and the BS finish ruined it), he worked every Monday in the top spot tearing the house down, and he carried the company at a time when it was desperately needed. In 1996, there was Shawn and Taker - that's it. Shawn held the belt and made a lot of people look good en route to (in my opinion) the single greatest championship reign of all time. Mick Foley said it best: "Shawn was a great champion at a time when the company needed a great champion - wrestling was not the 'in' thing and was not as hot as it once was or once would be again. But Shawn was the glue guy that held everything together." High praise from a guy very in-tune with the business.
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