ProWrestlingViews.com

Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Bryan’

Another sign that “same old, same old” is ruling the day in WWE despite Vince McMahon’s storyline dismissal? Look at what they’re doing to Money In the Bank – Smackdown Brand briefcase holder Daniel Bryan. A couple weeks ago, Bryan announced he’d cash in his MITB briefcase at next year’s WrestleMania.

Okay, fine, that’s been done only once before. By Mr. Anderson, I believe, who “got tricked” by Edge into putting the briefcase on the line, after which Edge held the briefcase and used it almost immediately to regain his title belt.

Flash forward to present. If WWE wants to build Bryan into a credible WrestleMania main event challenger next year, they need to put him over as a winner… a lot. Perhaps an underdog winner, but a nice undefeated in X matches streak would be a great way to build him over the next several months.

Instead, they jobbed him out to the going-nowhere-fast Wade Barrett, who’s been struggling ever since being shifted over to Smackdown. This guy’s your main event challenger in next year’s WrestleMania, taking on whoever holds the World Title at that time, be it Randy Orton or someone else, and you job Bryan out at SummerSlam?

Not a great, inspiring way to start building toward WrestleMania. So expect someone like Barrett to run the “put your briefcase on the line” scam against Bryan soon, because it’s clear WWE has no interest in building Bryan into a legit WrestleMania main event attraction. Don’t bank on Bryan making it that far, not for all the macadamia oil you can find!

WWE NXT wrestler Bryan Danielson, known on-air as Daniel Bryan, was released Friday from WWE. While some speculate this could be a work by WWE to sell the NXT Invasion angle, there is also evidence to argue against that.

For one, Danielson had been warned before about his on-air conduct not conforming to WWE policy, and his actions last Monday included two more violations; first, he was seen choking out a WWE ref; ever since the Chris Benoit family tragedy, WWE has strictly banned all its personnel from performing any maneuver that simulates strangulation. Also, he used the name of Jesus as a profanity during the angle, another violation since WWE made the decision to stick to a strictly TV PG style of presentation.

Danielson is arguably the stand-out of the weak first season of WWE NXT with the best ab workout, and was the main star of the NXT Invasion angle, which included him spitting in the face of John Cena. If his release is legit and they decide not to bring him back in 90 days, Danielson is sure to be a hot, young free agent that would draw a competitive offer from TNA, or he could choose to bring some of his new exposure back to his old home of ROH.

Either way, it will be interesting to see where Danielson ends up NXT.