1. Being A Heel Allows Daniel Bryan To Remain Healthy
Remember both how much it sucked and how awkward it was when Daniel Bryan was "that injured guy that we didn't know if he'd ever wrestle again who appeared on Raw every so often?" Well, if Daniel Bryan were a heel, it's plausible that he'd take fewer bumps, wrestle less and actually significantly extend the life of his career. If Daniel Bryan is a heel he could become the chickens**t that never wrestles, which ultimately allows him to rest. Or, he could be the heel who is a fan of mat wrestling and not doing so much high flying. The ground-based attack would actually end up being potentially less jarring to his likely fragile body. The best reason for Daniel Bryan to be a heel is that we want Daniel Bryan to be a wrestler for as long as humanly possible. He's a tremendous, once in a generation talent, and should be presented as such. As a heel, that ideally could happen for quite longer than if he remained a babyface.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
