Opinion

What Is WWE Doing With Daniel Bryan?

Published

5 years ago

June 30, 2018

I’m not sure what to make of WWE’s recent decision to reunite Daniel Bryan and Kane to form Team Hell No and face The Bludgeon Brothers at Extreme Rules with the SmackDown Tag Team Titles on the line. There are many of this wrestling onion that could be examined from this decision, which still moves the company further away from the match fans are begging to see happen.

It appears we all will have to wait for Bryan and The Miz a little longer.

The news of this tag team title match, made at the end of a rather mediocre SmackDown Live show Tuesday night, shows WWE is indecisive in what to do with the leader of the “Yes!” Movement moving forward. It also creates a cluster of twists and turns to navigate through later.

What happens with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson now that they have been shoved aside?

Does this mean Bryan will only focus on tag team wrestling if he and Kane take the belts from Luke Harper and Erick Rowan?

Does WWE trust Bryan’s in-ring performances, or do they feel another injury is imminent?

What just happened to the WWE Title picture moving forward?

Where is Roddy Piper when you need him to give us answers to the questions we have yet to ask? The only problem is the Rowdy One would get pissed off with the creative team for flipping the script too many times before the ink on the paper dries.

WWE needs to make a decision about Bryan, which direction he walks, and will there be a match with The Miz at SummerSlam or will he toil in the tag team division? Sorry, Kane. While I enjoyed your return to action Tuesday night, but you do little to help the momentum of Bryan, that starts and stops like my old Chevrolet Cavalier in the last 1990s.

What we have here is a failure to understand the method of this company’s madness. Bryan is by far the biggest attraction on Tuesday nights. There is a definitive direction for other superstars with AJ Styles meeting Rusev for the WWE Title. Jeff Hardy and Shinsuke Nakamura are in a tug-o-war over the United States Title. That leaves Samoa Joe, The Miz and Bryan to twist in the wind. It almost makes me wish Big Cass was still part of the Tuesday night fun bunch, if for nothing more than balance.

Does this mean the company is counting on Randy Orton to return from injury to wage war with Samoa Joe? And when will WWE finally make this confrontation between Bryan and the eight-time Intercontinental Champion happen? Please don’t give us the Sasha Banks-Bayley treatment. We deserve better than that.

Bryan has told the fans over and over again he is ready to march toward another world title opportunity. It appeared to be predestined. It looked as though Nakamura would take the title from Styles, only to be challenged by Bryan. It never happened. It appeared Joe would face Styles for the strap. It never happening. The puzzle pieces don’t fit right now in WWE’s complex world of uneven booking.

Something must change. For now, fans get to see Kane and Bryan do their thing as a dysfunctional tag team taking on the best villains to come along in decades. It works in theory but changes the course of things to come. And as I write this, we still do not have a Bryan-Miz match to speak of. The wrestling world is waiting on is tiptoes for that one.

As long as Bryan is part of the tag team division, it will never happen. This is a path WWE should not have taken unless a reason is revealed before the SummerSlam hype begins.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Stone Cold VS. Scott Hall (WrestleMania X8)

Chris King is back with another WrestleMania Rewind, looking at the NWO’s Scott Hall battling Stone Cold Steve Austin at WWE WrestleMania X8 from Toronto!

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Chris King is back with another WrestleMania Rewind, looking at the NWO’s Scott Hall battling Stone Cold Steve Austin at WWE WrestleMania X8 from Toronto!

Chris King is back this week with another edition of WrestleMania Rewind, where he is rewatching all the past Mania matches and feuds. This week you’re in for a treat as we look back at ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin vs. Scott Hall at WrestleMania X8.

In late 2001, Vince McMahon bought out his competition WCW and acquired the rights to a plethora of talent including Booker T, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and the iconic trio known as NWO. Hulk Hogan; Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall were hell raisers, and what better way to make a name for yourself than take out the two top superstars in the WWE The Rock, and Stone Cold?

The NWO cost Austin his chance at becoming the Undisputed Champion at No Way Out during his match with Chris Jericho. Adding insult to injury, the NWO spray-painted ‘The Texas Rattlesnake’ with their brand logo just like they did in WCW. As you can imagine, Austin was pissed and out for revenge against the group and primarily Scott Hall.

Hall would challenge Stone Cold to a match at WrestleMania 18. Both superstars beat the living hell out of each other leading up to this highly-anticipated match for who runs the WWE.

The glass broke and Stone Cold made his iconic entrance, and black and white NWO covered Halls’ entrance alongside Kevin Nash. With the odds stacked against ‘The Toughest S.O.B’ could Austin or NWO prove their dominance? Sadly the NWO broke up that very night when Hulk Hogan came to the aid of his adversary The Rock after their ‘iconic’ dream match. Stone Cold would ensure the victory with the Stunner. Hall would perform an Oscar-worthy sell over the finisher.

What a time to be a wrestling fan in the 2000s when nothing was impossible for WWE. Who would’ve thought WCW would go out of business and Hogan would make his long-awaited return to WWE?

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens (WWE WrestleMania 36)

Chris King takes a look at the most underrated WWE WrestleMania matches, and starts off with Seth Rollins battling Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 36!

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March 8, 2023

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Chris King takes a look at the most underrated WWE WrestleMania matches, and starts off with Seth Rollins battling Kevin Owens in the WWE Performance Center at WrestleMania 36!

Chris King is starting a new series heading into WrestleMania season dubbed WrestleMania Rewind. Each week he’ll be going back and sharing his insight over underrated matches at the Show of Shows. First up, is Kevin Owens vs. “The Monday Night Messiah” Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 36.

At the 2019 edition of Survivor Series, Rollins sacrificed himself during the men’s traditional match allowing SmackDown to ultimately gain the victory. The following night the self-proclaimed Messiah, berated the whole roster but KO was not having any part of it. Owens quickly became a huge barrier in Rollins’ cause for the greater good. The Authors of Pain attacked Owens with Rollins’ character in question.

Owens finally had enough of his rival’s mind games and torment and challenged Rollins to a match on the Grandest Stage Of Them All. Rollins mockingly accepted his challenge and the match was made official for night one of WrestleMania. Owens came out of the gate beating the holy hell out of the Monday Night Messiah trying to achieve his long-awaited moment at Mania but, Rollins tried to steal a disqualification victory by using the ring bell.

Owens hellbent on revenge provoked Rollins into turning their encounter into a no-disqualification contest where the fight could be taken all over the empty arena. The highlight of the match, was when KO used the WrestleMania sign to deliver a thunderous senton bomb through the announce table. Owens would secure the victory with a Stunner in an incredible match. Despite having no crowd during the pandemic era, both KO and Rollins put on an intense performance under the brightest lights.

In my personal opinion, this was a great feud that helped both superstars in their transformation as compelling characters for years to come.