The All Purpose Daniel Bryan Booking Thread

[Stu]

Mods are keeping an eye on this thread, and I can tell all of you that we already found reasons to issue warnings. In the words of Walter White, tread lightly.

[Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley]

I just...I'm just disappointed. At first I was all "f*** this company," "I'm not watching tomorrow" and all that. But I know, after I get home from work, I'll watch the last hour and a half of Raw.

Its just...you've got a company that has 2 guys (Punk and Bryan) that are EXTREMELY over. You've got a third guy (Reigns) that has been getting some face reactions for a few weeks and seems to have completely turned face tonight. Now, I understand you've got to go slow with Reigns. I get that. But take the other two. One is going to likely fight the recently "retired" Korporate Kane and probably culminate in fighting the "retired" HHH. The other, I have no idea what you're doing with him. Barring shoehorning the title on him at the Chamber, I haven't a clue.

The company has a solid footing of current vets who can take the reigns, and young guys who are on the brink (Reigns, and Langston), but they insist on shoving the old guys in there. And there's obviously not a god damn thing we can do about it. I guess Batista was right. We just have to deal with it.

[welshjobber]

Bryan is not whats good for business.

[thelonewolf527]

Jan 26, 2014 23:26:23 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Since the done to death thread got closed I'll post this here:

No. of one-on-one matches on PPV:

Bryan and Orton - 3 (not counting the cash-in since it was hardly a match)
Cena and Orton - 9

Anybody can slant statistics in their favour. To me, Cena vs. Orton is a stale, uninspiring match up with a story we've seen told before. Bryan vs. Orton on the other hand, has produced better matches (although not the best of either wrestler's career), is quite fresh and is a story that still doesn't feel like it has a had a proper ending yet.

Orton and Bryan have wrestled about 9-10 times since June, maybe even July in singles matches. I still want to know how that's not done to death, because Orton was going into Mania as champion ever since SummerSlam so no matter who won the Rumble, they were getting Orton

[stealthamo]

Thinking about it, I almost want to watch Raw tomorrow to see if the crowd completely shits on it. Then again, I could probably just watch Youtube highlights the next days. Decisions decisions...

[nWoElite]

Jan 26, 2014 23:26:23 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Since the done to death thread got closed I'll post this here:

No. of one-on-one matches on PPV:

Bryan and Orton - 3 (not counting the cash-in since it was hardly a match)
Cena and Orton - 9

Anybody can slant statistics in their favour. To me, Cena vs. Orton is a stale, uninspiring match up with a story we've seen told before. Bryan vs. Orton on the other hand, has produced better matches (although not the best of either wrestler's career), is quite fresh and is a story that still doesn't feel like it has a had a proper ending yet.

But Traditionally isn't Wrestlemania's card full of matchups we haven't seen all year?

[FinalGwen]

ecIII ‏@ethancartertna 2m
There are a lot of scum bags in that industry who will do anything to sabotage the most talented with the most heart for unbeknownst reasons

Gee, I wonder what he could be talking about.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

I'm not upset. It's more like any excitement I could have over Wrestlemania was just sort of extracted from my body. Eh, I'll live. It's just wrestling and making fun of the show here can be pretty fun. I'm really not the type to just go "I'm done" and quit watching at once, it's more like, "Oh yeah, I have work to do...skipping raw tonight. Eh, not going to catch up. Read it wasn't good. Woops, it's been a year since I last watched now huh."

[sybaku]

At this rate I'm going to be surprised if Bryan doesn't job to Kane at Mania

[Ringmaster]

Jan 26, 2014 23:24:32 GMT -5 SOR said:

[snipped wall of text]

So how much does being batista's PR guy pay?

[Deleted]

I feel like crying, honestly.

This is sort of my life right now, and it's quickly turning into something I despise.

[Kevin Hamilton]

The reason you got piled on SOR isn't cuz of a wrong opinion. That's disingenuous. No one said you had to like Daniel Bryan; what got people's goats (no pun intended) was that intentionally or not, you were trolling a bit with the whole "kudos to WWE for a good booking decision" and whatnot. You know what you were doing there and that it would rile people up.

[Deleted]

Jan 26, 2014 23:30:44 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

ecIII ‏@ethancartertna 2m
There are a lot of scum bags in that industry who will do anything to sabotage the most talented with the most heart for unbeknownst reasons

Gee, I wonder what he could be talking about.

Dixie, you have NO room to talk.

[suave]

Jan 26, 2014 23:29:42 GMT -5 Stu said:

Mods are keeping an eye on this thread, and I can tell all of you that we already found reasons to issue warnings. In the words of Walter White, tread lightly.

This is just asking a question, but what here would entail a warning?

[stealthamo]

I'm planning on it. Bryan was the only reason I kept watching, just for the small chance he may win the Rumble. Now that he isn't, I'm not planning on watching again until at least Wrestlemania.

[Ganon83]

I'm bummed at all of this. I'm buddies with a friend who is about 5'5 and I've seen him deal with shit throughout all of High School. So I've always cheered for the small guy, because of FIGHTING SPIRIT!!! and all of that. How ironic is it that this comes near the 15th anniversary of the Doug Flutie Debacle, where the Buffalo Bills replaced Doug Flutie with another quarterback, lost the play-off game, and to this day the Bills haven't been in the post season since.
I will say, I'm anxiously awaiting for the reaction videos on Youtube over the next week or so.

[gnr123]

What they could do, is have Batista become the Corporate champion. Have him win the WWE Championship from Orton at the Chamber PPV, but afterwards join the Authority. Than, have Bryan win the number 1 contender's Elimination Chamber match. I know Batista won the Rumble, but WWE can't be that short-sighted and stupid to not think that the WWE may crap all over the whole thing if it doesn't involve Daniel Bryan. Right? RIGHT?

[Bravo Echo November]

I've been on the fence about going to WrestleMania this year, but after tonight? The ends just don't justify the travel, booking, and price.

[Sparkybob]

Jan 26, 2014 23:26:23 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Since the done to death thread got closed I'll post this here:

No. of one-on-one matches on PPV:

Bryan and Orton - 3 (not counting the cash-in since it was hardly a match)
Cena and Orton - 9

Anybody can slant statistics in their favour. To me, Cena vs. Orton is a stale, uninspiring match up with a story we've seen told before. Bryan vs. Orton on the other hand, has produced better matches (although not the best of either wrestler's career), is quite fresh and is a story that still doesn't feel like it has a had a proper ending yet.

I'm not trying to anger you or what not, but you completely ignored the PPV level lengthy matches Orton and Bryan have had in the past year. They had 1 on smackdown last year, the Extreme Rules match on Raw, the 3 PPV matches, and the lengthy match in December on Raw. That is a lot of times to see 1 match.

You can argue Cena and Orton have been done a lot and I won't disagree, but your statistic is leaving out something important that hurts your argument.

[welshjobber]

Bryan is in his 30's, why do people think hes the future?

The future was sorted tonight with Roman Reigns