Daniel Bryan's Character

[The Baltimore Staircase]

Let's say for a moment he walks out of Summerslam as WWE Champion, where do you go with his character?

Personally, for me you ditch the "I'M A WRESTLER" stuff, which I hope someone added to the Cena feud without thinking.

You keep McMahon not wanting someone like Bryan as champion and keep it based on looks, size etc.

From that point on Bryan has to become common man 2k13. He needs to cut a promo about sleeping in cars, going to Japan etc and how yeah, he doesn't look like everyone else, or act like everyone else blah blah blah.

Daniel Bryan is what people want right now. He's kind, he's funny, he's a little socially awkward and feels out of place now he has to go to TV shows and press conferences. People love his natural good-guy ways and then he has the flip-side of being a passionate, wrestling machine.

Cut this promo www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDTLZjpSTkg

Then have Vince trash him. Gold.

(Apologies for the new thread, I didn't think it belonged in the stuff where we're talking about Cena/Bryan)

[Gimpo Commando]

Assuming Cena goes under the knife with the elbow surgery, there are plenty of people to compete with Daniel Bryan for the belt after SummerSlam, should he win. He can be called a weak champion and be targeted by mid card guys like Cesaro, he could have a feud with Kane as the friend vs friend for the title. He could be attacked by Orton and Punk at the main event scene. There can be many suitors lining up to get the easy win off the weaker champion in Bryan who got the "fluke" win off Cena.

The way Bryan's promo went, he indicated that having the belt proved to the world that he was the top wrestler, so I doubt he would have to give a promo indicating that after the fact. His Yes/No chants really work well but what I think he needs is a meatier type promo without so much of the catch phrase. I wish Ambrose weren't part of the Shield for moments like this, where he could deliver a strong promo against Bryan the way he would in the indies, someone with strong mic skills to question Bryan's ability to keep the strap and such. Him being in the Shield kind of handicaps him to being part of this group, instead of an unstable rogue member of the WWE roster, and there's always that risk of putting over one member too much and then leaving the other ones kind of diminished in the eyes of the fan base.

The cool thing about Bryan is that as champion anyone could work with him, small guys and large. That being said I wasn't in love with his work against Big Show during his WHC run, so I might take that back after seeing who goes after him.

[SEAN CARLESS]

He needs to retain the belt against McMahon-backed guys to get him over as not being a fluke and the real deal, and then he can get f***ed at Survivor Series and lose the belt there. He then eventually gets the belt back at Mania. Preferably to unify the World titles.

[The Baltimore Staircase]

First thing's first, we'll probably get a version of this but I fear Bryan may get lost in a Triple H vs Vince storm.

Oh absolutely he has to keep winning. They can't have him be a fluke and have him scrape wins etc. I just with we didn't have HHH and likely fun and games involved because if built right, this is huge.

If after 45 minutes, some near falls and after Cena's fought out of a long, tiring Lebell Lock, Bryan were to fly off the top rope with a headbutt in one last ditch effort to keep Cena down, and succeeded - that is huge. He proves he belongs. Clean victory. Cena's hurt, he looked strong, no damage.

The next night, he opens Raw and he cuts his promo. He starts in the car down the road from the Staples Centre, he goes to all around the world, he gets fired from the WWE and he comes back. The crowd would go nuts for all of this.

Vince comes out and here if they wanted too, just to protect Cena, they could have Vince "so what" the victory because of Cena's injury. But the main point is Vince just doesn't want him as WWE Champion. Think of the sponsors, the TV shows. Who in the hell wants someone like Daniel Bryan on their TV.

Bryan's already loved and this would cement it. The fans would get behind him. Every week Vince is worse and we're constantly seeing Bryan challenged.

Now here's where WWE will use Triple H and the power struggle storyline, they can either seperate the two stories and have Triple H use the Bryan stuff as just one example of Vince being out of touch and moving on to a fight for power. The problem is, if they were to do this you may see Bryan's title reign overshadowed somewhat. The other option is, for some reason Triple H heel turns it and sides with Vince and comes in for a run to try and take back the title. Bryan would have to drop it obviously to make the fight back make sense.

Common sense tells me that the power struggle and Bryan are going to be one. If it's Triple H fighting Bryan's corner, Bryan's taking a backseat.

[Juice]

Cena never lost clean to Punk at his height. Cena didn't lose to returning Brock Lesnar. Cena aint losing clean to Daniel bryan. He would look like a fluke champ no one would take the guy seriously and his run would end like a month in as I see WWE going with the safe option of Orton if cena does have to leave.

Personally I hate the Vince hates Daniel Bryan stuff cause they are openly pointing out differences, weaknesses and saying he doesn't belong. Which would be great if he goes out and wins the belt convincingly, but realistically I don't see that happening and won't succumb to wishful thinking.

[The Baltimore Staircase]

That's my point though. If he were to win, there's two options. Fun frolics with McMahon's or clean as a whistle. If you do the frolics, you've got a fluke and he hasn't proved his point so there's no where to go. If you do clean, it's massive and the only way to go is him to carry on proving people wrong. PROVE ME WRONG they would say before realising.

[corndog]

Aug 14, 2013 7:36:28 GMT -5 Gimpo Commando said:

Assuming Cena goes under the knife with the elbow surgery, there are plenty of people to compete with Daniel Bryan for the belt after SummerSlam, should he win. He can be called a weak champion and be targeted by mid card guys like Cesaro, he could have a feud with Kane as the friend vs friend for the title. He could be attacked by Orton and Punk at the main event scene. There can be many suitors lining up to get the easy win off the weaker champion in Bryan who got the "fluke" win off Cena.

The way Bryan's promo went, he indicated that having the belt proved to the world that he was the top wrestler, so I doubt he would have to give a promo indicating that after the fact. His Yes/No chants really work well but what I think he needs is a meatier type promo without so much of the catch phrase. I wish Ambrose weren't part of the Shield for moments like this, where he could deliver a strong promo against Bryan the way he would in the indies, someone with strong mic skills to question Bryan's ability to keep the strap and such. Him being in the Shield kind of handicaps him to being part of this group, instead of an unstable rogue member of the WWE roster, and there's always that risk of putting over one member too much and then leaving the other ones kind of diminished in the eyes of the fan base.

The cool thing about Bryan is that as champion anyone could work with him, small guys and large. That being said I wasn't in love with his work against Big Show during his WHC run, so I might take that back after seeing who goes after him.

That sounds alot like Bret Hart's title reigns, but I agree he should be a working champion. I also would love to see Ambrose as a challenger. It would be alot like Bret/Shawn working against each other in Bret's first ppv title defense, a look into the future.

[Essential1]

He can keep the same character but he should do something with that hair. A bald head would look best IMO.