Exactly
What was Daniel Bryan's MRI results that caused him to retire last night?
- Thread starter Truth200
- Start date
Exactly
WOAHMYGOODNESS
Your TSC World Champion
And they put it on a younger healthier guy who put in the work the entire year. nikkas will look for any reason to discredit trips and vince
Now imagine they put bryan in a match with brock and it was booked aimilar to how roman was in it...that lil fukk would be in a wheelchair
MAGNETO.
#STARKSET #LEMONCAKEGANG #NYGBIGBLUE
Should do himself a favor and retire.
At least his not as much of a dikkhead as Phil was.
Roman, Seth, Rusev, Ettore, Finn, Cass, Baron the future
At least his not as much of a dikkhead as Phil was.
Roman, Seth, Rusev, Ettore, Finn, Cass, Baron the future
MAGNETO.
#STARKSET #LEMONCAKEGANG #NYGBIGBLUE
But but..... Roman/Seth aren't ready.
God, we'd love a match of D Bry vs Lesnar for the WM main event.
Smarks WOAT
Paul Bearer
OHHHHH YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!
Should do himself a favor and retire.
At least his not as much of a dikkhead as Phil was.
Roman, Seth, Rusev, Ettore, Finn, Cass, Baron the future
MAGNETO.
#STARKSET #LEMONCAKEGANG #NYGBIGBLUE
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
As you know, Daniel Bryan relinquished the WWE Intercontinental Title at RAW this week due the MRI from his latest injury revealing that he would not be able to return to the ring anytime soon. As you'd expect, WWE is extremely frustrated with the situation because while officials want what’s best for Bryan’s health, they also want him active on TV because they have a new DVD, his book and other items coming out which need to be promoted.
Combined with concern that Bryan’s style is making him injury-prone, the forced time off has WWEconsidering putting him in a non-wrestling role. This would allow him to stay on TV and keep merchandise moving.
The talk backstage is that ever since RAW, Bryan is trying to find ways to get cleared to return. There’s no word if the surgery that he was previously reluctant to get is an option anymore or if he would be willing to do it.
Many people in the company feel bad for Bryan, considering the personal and professional problems he’s had over the last year.
As you know, Daniel Bryan relinquished the WWE Intercontinental Title at RAW this week due the MRI from his latest injury revealing that he would not be able to return to the ring anytime soon. As you'd expect, WWE is extremely frustrated with the situation because while officials want what’s best for Bryan’s health, they also want him active on TV because they have a new DVD, his book and other items coming out which need to be promoted.
Combined with concern that Bryan’s style is making him injury-prone, the forced time off has WWEconsidering putting him in a non-wrestling role. This would allow him to stay on TV and keep merchandise moving.
The talk backstage is that ever since RAW, Bryan is trying to find ways to get cleared to return. There’s no word if the surgery that he was previously reluctant to get is an option anymore or if he would be willing to do it.
Many people in the company feel bad for Bryan, considering the personal and professional problems he’s had over the last year.
What surgery? What was the MRI results?
We need more aliases, where's @Big Van Vadehhh
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
Bryan has that Benoit work ethic about him, which is most certainly not a good thing (though according to his new book, this isn't really anything new). The guy seriously needs to consider his health. He's too young to cripple himself for a company that only has so much faith in him.
And for those praising WWE for not putting the title on Bryan and acting like they know what they're doing: you're only half-right. They most certainly shouldn't have fast tracked him into a match with Brock Lesnar. However, there were better ways than what they did (publicly castrating his momentum for the sake of Roman's unsuccessful push) to get him out of the title picture.
Do you know who else isn't in any way fit enough to carry their promotion's top title? Shinsuke Nakamura. If you've ever wondered just why he hasn't been in the IWGP Heavyweight Title picture since 2011 or so, it's because he's really way too banged up to put on IWGP Title-length matches at this point in his career. He may get it later on down the line, but he can't exactly work those kinds of matches regularly right now. But did New Japan just give the middle finger to his fans and shut his momentum down to spite the fans? No, they simply positioned him in a manner that allowed his fans to get their fix while protecting him and opening up their title picture. It's really not hard to do, honestly, it just takes some consideration of the fans' desires, the company's desires, and how to best mediate the two.
But that would require legitimate bookers and a legitimate booking philosophy, which are sorely lacking in WWE these days.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Isn't that what the E was going for putting the IC belt on him though? To give him that 'comfortable' spot where he could cook without putting him in the main event?
And I think they probably really felt they were protecting Bryan in the Rumble by having him get taken out at the hands of both Bray and Rusev, the company's 'monster heels', they just completely failed to realize how popular Bryan was and how much people would hate it without the context of the E not feeling sure about his health yet.
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
True, but I was really referring to what they did at the Royal Rumble and Fastlane. At both of those pay-per-views, they booked Bryan as not good enough in order to kill his momentum and siphon heat onto Reigns (not sure why they thought this would work, though...). If they would have waited a bit on Bryan's return (and would have not put him in the Rumble, for sure) and had Bryan, say, work his way up to a title match with Rollins that he lost in a hard-fought contest, it would have more than likely been less of an issue, and they would have been able to transition to the IC title reign more organically (this is, of course, only one idea).
One of the big issues with the whole Bryan/Reigns situation was that Bryan didn't get a chance to reclaim the title he never lost. It certainly wasn't the only issue, but it was the one that WWE had the most control over. All they had to do was find a way to give Bryan that match in an appropriate environment (not necessarily win it), and, even if there was backlash, it would have been much more muted than what we got. And the funniest thing about the situation was that they already went through this with Bryan three years ago. The 18 second thing was a fukk up they mostly corrected (for Bryan) by putting on a legitimate (and pretty damn good) title match that Bryan ultimately lost, then putting him in an important storyline right afterward. Nobody rioted or took over shows after he lost at Extreme Rules that year, they just watch Bryan go about his business in his next storyline.
All I'm saying is that it wouldn't have been very difficult to avoid this mess if they put some thought into it. Instead, they tried to sacrifice him for the sake of Reigns' push, and it did nobody any good.