Overall, I hate to label anyone the sole best. So overall I'm going to pick two, and those two are Samoa Joe and Bryan Danielson.
Danielson is known as the Founding Father of Ring of Honor. He was labeled by Dave Meltzer as the best wrestler of the decade at the turn of 2010, and that's overall, Meltzer even said he saw Danielson's work as better than his trainer Shawn Michaels. Danielson made it by himself on the independant scene, be came into the WWE with a well established name, he's the original "Best in The World." He used the nickname before Punk did. Danielson has won countless belts on the indy circuit and was by far the largest draw until he signed with WWE. His feud with Nigel McGuinness contributed to Ring of Honor getting noterity as well as Danielson's constant accolades from various highly respected wrestling journalists. Overall, he may be the best but he has competition.
Samoa Joe was the biggest thing on the indepedant circut. He entered TNA with a bang, and that bang was the ovation he got as his music hit. Joe held the ROH Championship for nearly an entire two years, he had countless great matches, he toured everywhere and sold out arena-after-arena. Joe made the ROH Championship so prestiged in my opinion and that's why he's above Danielson. It took Bryan until late 2005 to gain the ROH Championship and by that point it had already been set on such a high pedastil by Joe. Joe made the indies big in the 00's, TNA were smart to take him and use him the way they did, too bad now he's a shell of what he used to be.
But doesn't take anything away from what Joe did. Its tight, between Danielson and Joe though. Punk didn't contribute enough, where as these two did. I'd say its even, but what Joe did for the belt is special, he defended it over fifty times in his near two year reign. But its between these two.
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