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Originally Posted by Front Office Midget

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The way the crowd got behind Kofi this week was incredible and speaks volumes about his talent. To get such huge pops, and get such heat on ANY heel would be impressive, much less when that heel is DANIEL BRYAN.

AJ Styles is a terrific performer, and even he couldn't get heat in his feud with Bryan. People are happy to boo Bryan in the angles, but generally still want to see him to win his matches (hence the dead crowd for the Styles matches).

Compare this crowd to Bryan vs. Lesnar 3 months ago.

I was a little nervous about Bryan's heel run not having any truly over babyface to work with, which is why the angles have been hot but the matches have been crickets. Kofi has worked magic in these 2 matches, and nothing else really springs to mind in terms of "grabbing the brass ring" so quickly. What a memorable week.

Kudos to all involved. I jump in and out of following wrestling, but I think Bryan is doing the best heel work since 1997 Bret Hart or 1997 Hollywood Hogan. A lot in common between the 3, all were growing fairly stale as the same old babyface they had been for years, but any of them could have just milked that for the rest of their career and been near the top of the card (but not on top). Each heel turn was gutsy, trying to get the crowd to boo someone who you thought would possibly never be a heel again, and each resulted in the best character work of their careers. You can tell that Daniel Bryan has done a lot of deep thinking about professional wrestling, and it certainly seems like he has studied the Hart/Hogan turns (especially how Hart managed to keep the boos going in 97).

You don't often get a situation where a feud has massive heat before a single promo has been cut, and it's even crazier because of who the heel is. Also, the smarks are actually behind the face, even though they love the heel. Also, New Day and Enlightened Bryan are entertaining television for casuals (based on a sample size of 1 vegan non-wrestling fan roommate who loves them both).

This feud is loaded with potential. Only time will tell if it ends with Kevin Nash vs. Triple H at Summerslam.

And all I could think of was the 12 EC with it coming down to Bryan vs Santino.

Unfortunately, I think it's just going to end as another Cesaro Section.