Sports Crowd Responsible for Daniel Bryan Turning Back?, Backstage News on His Wyatt Family Run

[2ndCitySavior]

Lords of Pain; - When WWE first had Daniel Bryan join The Wyatt Family on RAW a few weeks back, they had two matches lined up for him at WrestleMania XXX - one that would see him still a member of the group and one that would have had him back to being a babyface. There was no real solid plan on turning Bryan back babyface but it was not supposed to happen just two weeks later, like they ended up doing.

The idea was that Bryan would either turn back at Elimination Chamber, setting up Bryan vs. Bray at WrestleMania XXX, or he would turn at WrestleMania after coming out for a tag match with Wyatt. This would have guaranteed the big babyface reaction at WrestleMania.

Word within WWE is that the company was "100% fully embarrassed" by the footage of the Michigan State crowd all chanting "yes!" in unison. The footage ended up everywhere online and on TV shows, with Bryan and WWE getting a mention. WWE wanted to run with the Daniel Wyatt storyline but, "when you have a whole college arena doing "yes!" chants and most likely others will, plus NFL stars in the post-season doing it," WWE felt they had no choice but to hurry and turn Bryan back on RAW.

 

[Embrace Thou Maryse]

Maybe they were doing it for Diego Sanchez...

 

[Nate]

I don't see why WWE is embarassed by this. If anything they should be happy that they caught their mistake before it was too late, now they can take advantage of how over Bryan is with the fans.

 

[punk13]

WWE Logic

So when all the crowds at their actual events were chanting "YES!" they didn't pay attention but when a completely unrelated crowd did it they reacted? Seems legit...

 

[Chris]

WWE Logic

So when all the crowds at their actual events were chanting "YES!" they didn't pay attention but when a completely unrelated crowd did it they reacted? Seems legit...

That's actually pretty solid logic to be honest. Wrestling fans chant for dumb shit half the time but you sure as hell take notice when people start doing it elsewhere because then it shows how popular the superstar really is.

 

[Luke Flywalker]

That's actually pretty solid logic to be honest. Wrestling fans chant for dumb shit half the time but you sure as hell take notice when people start doing it elsewhere because then it shows how popular the superstar really is.

Except, WWE had Yes! chants going nuts for Bryan anytime he was MENTIONED, at every arena, with every crowd, against EVERY opponent. It's not like the Fandango stuff that ended. Or R-Truth's Wussup that is hit or miss with most crowds.

WWE fans have BEEN telling WWE that Daniel Bryan should be THE GUY and they haven't been listening to a single word of it.

 

[Chris]

Sure they haven't pulled the trigger completely yet but he's gotten title matches and been featured in high profile feuds for months now so they have been listening to the fans. All I'm saying is that of course they're going to take notice when he starts getting chants outside of the wrestling community because he's been that popular. Same thing happened with Cena's "You Can't See Me" and Austin's "Austin 3:16"

 

[Tapout]

Maybe they were doing it for Diego Sanchez...

Who? Point being, no one cares about him, and how he wasn't able to make the yes chant main stream. Bryan was.

I never expected it to last long, too be honest. WWE would have been stupid to have him go into the Rumble as a Wyatt. Especially when he's the favorite.

 

[Deezy]

First off, WWE creative could have had this whole thing penciled in since Summerslam, and WWE would never be embarassed because a guy got over.

Secondly the gap between TLC and Rumble always have these one off storylines because they need a holding pattern until Mania season,

Thirdly, if WWE were supposedly not wanting Bryan to get over, they wouldn't have even put him in a major storyline, that took 3 semgments a show, and they damn sure wouldn't have booked him to be so damn strong either. I find it funny how these so-called "experts" who make money off speculation and guessing games can't even see that, or the so-called smart fans who constantly bitch about the now and yesterday, but never look to the future, even though they proclaim this guy and that guy as such.

 

[The Cork]

Danielson won't be any higher than curtain jerker at Mania.

He made over a million people turn off Raw during his last main event run and 4 of the PPV's he headlined got lower buyrates than the year previous.

People do not want this guy as the face of the WWE, please stop the indy propaganda.

 

[Defiant]

I have to admit, waiting until Elimination Chamber to turn Bryan face again would've been cooler. The anticipation for it would've built a little longer and imo more suitable as a PPV moment, one that nicely leads (well, would have) into Wrestlemania.

The whole WWE embarrassment or whatever I don't even understand. Wasn't briefly changing Bryan's character so fans were bummed he wouldn't do the "Yes!" chant the whole friggin' point of the angle?

 

[Deezy]

Danielson won't be any higher than curtain jerker at Mania.
He made over a million people turn off Raw during his last main event run and 4 of the PPV's he headlined got lower buyrates than the year previous.
People do not want this guy as the face of the WWE, please stop the indy propaganda.

I would agree with you if he was coming out to dead crowds, but the proof is there on our TV screens, the little shit is OVER.....Push that until we even see that chant at a Superbowl....which could feasibly happen.

Is it him or the "Yes!" chant that is over though? Guessing the crowds still going nuts for Bryan in Duke "The Dumpster" Droese overalls were further proof of that.

Anyone think his Wyatt time was a litmus test to see if that is true?

 

[Luke Flywalker]

Danielson won't be any higher than curtain jerker at Mania.

He made over a million people turn off Raw during his last main event run and 4 of the PPV's he headlined got lower buyrates than the year previous.

People do not want this guy as the face of the WWE, please stop the indy propaganda.

Funny you put the blame on Bryan and not Randy Orton (who also has a severe history of turning away viewers and buyers, and even staled out his Main Event title defense against Big Show). Or even on the fact that, for ALL of those PPV's, the only match with any build was his... who the Hell is going to buy PPV's when there is one, two, and rarely three matches booked more than a week in advance? Half of the PPV's last year had at least one and sometimes as high as three matches that were booked on Smackdown 2* days before the PPV, or 30 minutes before the PPV itself. Fans aren't going to buy for something they're unsure of.

Turn off Raw? If I'm not mistaken, and I highly doubt I am, Bryan was gaining RAW viewers for his segments and matches.

People don't want him as the face? He was voted Superstar of the Year when Cena was expected to win it outright... and they felt the vote was legit, and Cena's loyal fanbase is the largest in the E... it sure as Hell seems like a lot of them went and voted for Bryan.

 

[Chris]

Is it him or the "Yes!" chant that is over though? Guessing the crowds still going nuts for Bryan in Duke "The Dumpster" Droese overalls were further proof of that.

That's what I was wondering for awhile as well and I thought WWE was going to kill it when they had him chant "No!" so they "Yes!" chants were a negative reaction to Bryan instead of the positive one. It definitely seemed like the chant was over more at first when everyone was chanting it all the time but now it's solely a Bryan thing and louder than ever.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Daniel Bryan FAKING Stockholm Syndrome just to get Bray Wyatt alone after a couple months of unrelenting beatdowns couldn't have been the decidin' factor? It's more like WWE booked themselves into a corner with the Shield/Punk stuff and had to make this stand out as different. It is nice to see sports crowd embrace such a talent though but this whole "Yes!" craze is just easy and lucky, anybody could of have used it to a very similar effect.