This is a petty argument about semantics. Anyone who's willing to accept that words have differing meanings can understand exactly what Bryan's saying and not care about it in the slightest. Bryan is differentiating between entertainment and wrestling, which is a long standing difference in definition that simply refers to the difference between the soap opera side of professional wrestling from its technical, in ring component. It is perfectly reasonable to separate the terms wrestling and entertainment in this fashion. Perhaps as a simplification, perhaps as a philosophical difference, but ultimately as no more than a change in semantics, we sometimes simply describe everything in one big mixed up package and call it wrestling. Therefore a great wrestler to one person is not a great wrestler to another, but perhaps a great entertainer.
The choice of semantics is not trivial, and it's a somewhat interesting philosophical debate. But no side is more or less right than the other, and Bryan more than any of us has every right in the world to choose the definitions he pleases and work with them. He's not sabotaging the company, he's not shitting on anyone. He's just choosing a set of definitions and applying them.
In other words, nothing to see here, carry on. By any definition you choose, Daniel Bryan is the greatest wrestler in the world.
The choice of semantics is not trivial, and it's a somewhat interesting philosophical debate. But no side is more or less right than the other, and Bryan more than any of us has every right in the world to choose the definitions he pleases and work with them. He's not sabotaging the company, he's not shitting on anyone. He's just choosing a set of definitions and applying them.
In other words, nothing to see here, carry on. By any definition you choose, Daniel Bryan is the greatest wrestler in the world.