10 Times WWE Completely Buried Ring Of Honor World Champions
1. NO!
Daniel Bryan's start to life in WWE was remarkably stupid, but the company robust efforts to actively prohibit his place in main events was a stubborness from management unlike anything in company history.
They'd laid the table well, with a desperately upsetting Money In The Bank cash-in at the 'Yes Man's expense following his clean WWE Title victory over John Cena at SummerSlam 2013. It was the sort of occurrence that warranted...nay, required revenge from the hero, but Bryan was instead made to beating after beating after beating after relentless beating from Orton and his new Authority comrades in a series of humbling assaults that the company have since re-imagined as exquisite sympathy-building.
To live through it was to know the truth. Never, ever, ever had a top babyface been beaten so soundly without retribution, especially considering that he was unable to reclaim his WWE Title in three separate pay-per-view main events against 'The Viper' following his SummerSlam loss.
Shifting him out of the title picture after the third loss, the company thought they'd tempered crowd support, but had instead only galvanised it. From The Big Show to John Cena and beyond, the crowd voiced their abject refusal of anybody but Bryan.