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Post by chazzbusby on Sept 19, 2014 12:48:08 GMT -5
Doesn't he not even want to be? I swear I've heard multiple interviews where he just wants to wrestle and sustain some kind of beet farm with Brie or some shit. We care far more about him than even he does. He's not naturally someone who wants to do media etc. He's very shy, nervous and I don't think he realises how likeable and funny he is. But that's the reason he'll become the most loved guy in the business. He's the guy everyone wants to love these days. Society changed and Bryan is what society wants.
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Post by saintpat on Sept 19, 2014 12:51:56 GMT -5
He's a vegan and doesn't own a TV.
Why is that so hard to understand?
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Post by chazzbusby on Sept 19, 2014 12:52:49 GMT -5
WHAT A NERD.
Although Brie took his veganity and Total Divas exposed Bryan as a TV owning bastard so maybe he's sold out to get his big push.
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Post by saintpat on Sept 19, 2014 13:27:24 GMT -5
At one time, Vince planned to push him to the top, but things went horribly awry at a meeting in his conference room in Stamford. It went something like this: Vince: Cena is getting old, he's had multiple major surgeries. It's time to pick a new face for our company to develop for the next generation. Now what about this Daniel Bryan guy? HHH: He's definitely over sir but ... Stephanie: ... he's small, and he has a beard. Vince: Sort of an everyman, someone people can relate to, guy off the street ... I think we can make it work. OK, someone tell them to fire up the jet to pick him up. I'll have him over this weekend, show him ol' Uncle Vince is just a regular guy, I'll grill some steaks and we can talk it over. Kevin Dunn: Umm, that could be a problem, sir. Vince: What? The jet being used or something? Dunn: No sir. It just that ... well ... Vince: Spit it out, man. Stephanie: He's a vegan! Vince: A what? HHH: A vegan. He doesn't eat meat. Vince: OK, no big deal, I'll just barbeque some chickens. Dunn: Respectfully, sir ... chickens are meat. He doesn't eat them either. Vince: Well what does he eat? Stephanie: Vegans don't eat meat or even meat byproducts, sir. He doesn't even drink milk. I think he only eats vegetables that have been blessed by a priest who has never tasted bacon or something like that. Vince: Just answer the question, what DOES he eat? HHH: Tofu, sir. Vince: WTF is tofu? Dunn: No one really knows, sir, but it's not meat. Vince: Well, we'll just scratch the dinner thing. I don't want to eat whatever that is. Tell you what, go out and buy him the biggest, baddest HD flat-screen TV and ship it to him courtesy his ol' pal Vince. Attach a note that says we want to push him to to the moon and we need to talk. He'll love it! Stephanie: Umm, there's another problem sir. HHH: You're going to love this, Mr. McMahon, sir. Vince: Well what? Dunn: He doesn't own a TV. Vince: He ... doesn't ... own ... a ... TV? Well, I knew times were hard with this network launch but I thought we were paying him more than that. HHH: Ummm Vince: Well that's great, he'll appreciate it all the more. Buy him two! Stephanie: I don't know how to tell you this, but that's a choice he has made. He doesn't want to own a TV. Vince: WTFBBQ??!!?? What kind of freak hippy is he? HHH: That's what we're trying to tell you, sir. Vince: That changes things. Dunn: Yes sir, I see what you're saying. Vince: Tell me about this Roman Reigns. HHH: He likes his steak medium rare, sir. Vince: That settles it. Make it happen.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 19, 2014 14:45:23 GMT -5
Because he's a girl
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Post by nisidhe on Sept 19, 2014 15:00:03 GMT -5
Because he wrestles too similarly to Bob Holly for Vince's comfort. A technician anywhere near that level has no place in Vince's universe now. They'll play him off as a goofball everyman character and ignore the swandive headbutts and how close the LeBell Lock resembles the crossface until they're blue in the face, but silently they're cringing because they had this guy ten years ago and drove him into the ground for the likes of Randy Orton or HHH.
I'll always be a little bitter about that, while silently happy that Bryan's found someone with far less baggage with whom to be happy.
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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on Sept 19, 2014 16:16:04 GMT -5
Why can't Bad News Barrett be IC champ? Why does it have to be Ziggler again?
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Sept 19, 2014 16:21:17 GMT -5
Dan Breen is tos gay lol.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Sept 19, 2014 16:24:15 GMT -5
Because he wrestles too similarly to Bob Holly for Vince's comfort. A technician anywhere near that level has no place in Vince's universe now. They'll play him off as a goofball everyman character and ignore the swandive headbutts and how close the LeBell Lock resembles the crossface until they're blue in the face, but silently they're cringing because they had this guy ten years ago and drove him into the ground for the likes of Randy Orton or HHH. The solution to that would be for them to actually push him. Not to let him pound his brain into jam trying too hard to prove himself to them they way they did with Bob Holly.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Sept 19, 2014 16:26:09 GMT -5
Because he's injured. He was treated like 'the Guy' before and after Mania, though he wasn't Plan-A.
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Post by Prince Petty on Sept 19, 2014 16:26:38 GMT -5
He doesn't have the look Yeah maybe Reigns isn't all that good of a wrestler but he had the look forsure But Bryan DOES have the look. He isn't THAT small. He's roughly the same size as half the roster. And he's good looking enough to appeal to da ladies/The GAY COMMUNITY?!?! He cleans up well and looks like a guy I can see putting on a suit and going on the late night talk shows. If Bryan still looked like he does in your avatar, then he's cash money for the WWE. No doubt about it. The downhome, approachableness and popularity, coupled with a look that was actually pretty badass? What more could you ask for, when it's added to his wrestling ability? As he is now, I think he just looks a bit too disheveled and scruffy. A haircut and a beard trim would do wonders for him, and lend him a real freshness when he does return from injury. If he can get healthy, then he can have amazing matches with Rollins and Ambrose, and later with Zayne and Neville and KENTA and Devitt. This has to be the long term goal of the company, or at least Triple H's long term goal: To put on the best wrestling matches anyone has ever seen, on a consistent basis.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Sept 19, 2014 16:27:24 GMT -5
I don't think people realize how deceptively thick Bryan is. He's short, but if he was the same height as Cena, he'd be the same weight. Dude's legs are actually thicker than most of the heavyweights. He's just squat.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 19, 2014 16:29:43 GMT -5
how deceptively thick Bryan is. l agree with the actual post but this cracked me up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 16:32:01 GMT -5
how deceptively thick Bryan is. l agree with the actual post but this cracked me up. How do you think he gets that sweet therapist ass?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 19, 2014 16:45:19 GMT -5
I don't really see the Benoit thing having much to do with it, as Daniel has 100 times the personality and versatility that comes with that that Chris ever had.
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Post by KobashiChop on Sept 19, 2014 17:53:13 GMT -5
If you have the entire Superdome shouting your chant in unison after you've defeated the most protected man in the company, the world champion and a wrestlemania main eventer in the same night, you're the guy. He is hurt. When he comes back, he will surely get back up there. The WWE know how over he is. They haven't missed the boat the way people think. Certain things were designed to make it look like they were burying him. Seriously, just not putting him in the Rumble at all? That was a premeditated and conscious thing. I think him not being in the Rumble was that they thought that so long as he wasn't in the match, no one would get that upset about him not winning. And there is absolutely no way that they planned it all in advance. Zero. Among other things, it'd have to have required them to know that the crowd would permanently turn on Batista after popping for him his first night back, and they'd had have to have known Punk was going to walk out. Absolutely not. It wasn't all planned in advance, but I think they were angling towards Bryan winning at Mania, he just took HHH on as well to fill Punks spot. Batista turning heel wasn't planned either but just worked out. But there is no way that they were just burying him all the way and then just caved a month or two before Mania. I was furious about the Rumble. Looking back, I feel I got worked. And it doesn't bother me.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 19, 2014 18:55:52 GMT -5
WWE shouldn't have "the guy"
They should have several guys.
Build as many stars as possible and not be reliant on a single dominant and overpushed one.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Sept 19, 2014 18:58:46 GMT -5
WWE shouldn't have "the guy" They should have several guys. Build as many stars as possible and not be reliant on a single dominant and overpushed one. It felt like WWE were trying to do that at one point, around the time the brand split ended. But then they tried to make too many people look like contenders (Cena, Punk, Orton, Kane, Big Show, Henry, Del Rio, Miz, Ziggler, Sheamus, Christian, Barrett, Rey, Jericho, and eventually Bryan and Ryback) it ended up killing the midcard and making the TV product appear as if everyone is special so no one is.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 19, 2014 18:59:44 GMT -5
Because McMahon likes big buff bigger than real life action figures. Daniel Bryan looks like a normal dude who could be your next door neighbor in a nice suburban neighborhood. Even smaller guys he's went with had a certain look to them. Bret Hart looked like he could be an athlete of some kind...Angle too. Punk even had a certain look to him that didn't look ordinary. Bryan looks like he could be your mailman. McMahon doesn't like that. I don't think they'd let a mailman have a beard like that. Yes they would.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 19, 2014 19:00:34 GMT -5
Because he isn't an A+ player.
(seriously how am I the first person to post that?)
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