SportsKeeda's WWE Superstar Of The Year 2018

#3 Daniel Bryan

In 2016, Daniel Bryan had to retire from in-ring competition due to medical reasons and was assigned the role of the SmackDown General Manager from 2016 till 2018.

After years of trying, Bryan finally got medically cleared by the WWE in 2018 and made his return to the squared circle at Wrestlemania in Tag Team competition when he partnered with Shane O'Mac to take on Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

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While the fans' excitement was at an all-time high, things started spiraling downward for the bearded GOAT when he was placed in a lackluster feud with Big Cass.

However, a lengthy program with his arch-nemesis The Miz helped Bryan regain the lost momentum.

But the most interesting turn of 2018 perhaps took when Daniel Bryan turned heel during a WWE Championship match against AJ Styles on an episode of SmackDown, low-blowing Styles to pick up the victory.

Bryan has since completely re-invented himself, acting like a deranged lunatic and calling himself "The New" Daniel Bryan.

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Shiven Sachdeva is a WWE writer who has been with Sportskeeda for over eight years. He is an alumnus of IIT-R and holds a Master's Degree in Commerce. His love for writing and pro wrestling led him to become a writer. Shiven has interviewed multiple top WWE stars, including former champions Kofi Kingston, Becky Lynch, and Seth Rollins, to name a few.

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Two of his favorite WWE Superstars are Shawn Michaels and Drew McIntyre. If he could go back to the Attitude Era, Shiven asserts that he would reinstate Michaels as the leader of DX instead of Triple H.

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