View Poll Results: Biggest Surprise of 2021

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  • Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson debut minutes apart

    0 0%
  • Big E wins Money In The Bank

    0 0%
  • CM Punk Returns

    2 40.00%
  • John Cena returns at Money In The Bank

    0 0%
  • Ring of Honor stops running shows

    0 0%
  • Hook can wrestle

    0 0%
  • Bray Wyatt released

    2 40.00%
  • Brock Lesnar returns, as a Face

    0 0%
  • Matt Cardona beats Nick Gage in a Deathmatch to become the GCW Champion (and King of the Deathmatch)

    1 20.00%
  • Bad Bunny is good at WrestleMania

    0 0%
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Thread: 2021 Awards: Surprise of the Year

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    Quote Originally Posted by BestSportsEntertainer View Post
    Has a multi-time world champion still in the main event scene ever been released?
    Several have been. There's the easy answer with Bret Hart. Brock Lesnar left twice when he was on top. Before jumping to TNA in '08 Jeff Hardy was a multi-time world champ who last fought Punk for the gold. Hogan had world title matches with Yokozuna before heading over to NJPW and then WCW. Probably a few others Vince pissed off were granted their release around that time too. There are also companies outside of WWE like ROH who have released such people.


    I get choosing Bray here, but I do not gel with the notion that an announcement in wrestling makes it less of a surprise, or some mark against it. The sport is riddled with spoilers. I'd argue wrestling thrives on being heavy-handed. Punk showing up as promoted was refreshing to me compared to AEW's usual surprise appearances. For that I think Punk debuting instead of some MJF trolling is the surprise of the year.

    There was also Punk telling the crowd Daniel Bryan, another released multi-time world champ still in the WWE main event scene, was on his way made it a two-fold surprise.
    Last edited by Spidey; 01-28-2022 at 09:35 PM.

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    What do we do in the event of a 1 hour time limit draw then?

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