10 Specific Ways WWE Stars Can Recover From Awful Booking
1. Daniel Bryan
Did Daniel Bryan have to lose to Rusev? Or to anybody, so soon after his magical return?
"He's an underdog!" is the counter-argument, but Daniel Bryan isn't Tye Dillinger. He is a performer boasting immense range, and he's already made a comeback so magical nobody could script it, let alone a godd*mn WWE creative writer. Leaning on that aspect of his character will only offer diminished returns. This much was clear before he even entered the ring at 'Mania 34. It's crystal now.
Using Bryan to elevate Big Cass was a catastrophic misfire, since Cass is irredeemable as a singles performer. Bryan's aura was tarnished through pure association, and that is before Cass walked him around the Backlash ring maintaining wrist control like he was Kazuchika Okada, and not one of the worst singles acts on the planet.
It's time Bryan started winning, cleanly and conclusively, en route to genuine WWE Title contention. Our balls are blue, our hopes tempered. Increasingly, the magic of Bryan's return is lifting, primarily because the expectation of a committed push is as improbable as his medical clearance. Bryan isn't a caricature, he is a star, and he should be treated as such accordingly.
Dethroning WWE Champion Shinsuke Nakamura following a major, emotional win over The Miz is the way to do just that.