WWE 2K15: 10 Famous Wrestling Injustices You Should Put Right
5. Daniel Bryan's And The Royal Rumble Fiasco Of 2014
Daniel Bryan had a happy WrestleMania - bettween his defeating Triple H to open the show and winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship to close it, he was on screen for an entire hour. But is this how it was always meant to go? Probably not. We may never know for sure, but evidence that shows the WWE never actually planned to go with Bryan was 2014's Royal Rumble. The show opened with the bout between he and Bray Wyatt, which, despite being heralded as an immediate Match Of The Year candidate, saw the American Dragon lose clean - a first since his big win against John Cena at SummerSlam. Never fear, we all thought, surely the WWE is aware that Bryan is the only logical choice to win the Royal Rumble. Sure, Batista was returning, but this is 2014, not 2004, right? Wrong. Bryan wasn't entered into the Rumble, and as a result Rey Mysterio would be showered with boos when he came in at No. 30 - but he got off light compared to Batista, whose long awaited return to the Squared Circle was ruined because WWE, up until that night, refused to listen to their fans.
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