10 Wrestling Feuds Where The Bad Guy Won
2. The Authority Vs Daniel Bryan
Enough's been written about how WWE managed to get to WrestleMania XXX in spite of the Daniel Bryan story they were trying to tell, but the ability to fake an "ending" in a company without a finish line erases how things actually stalled to a halt for the "Yes!" Movement.
Injuries robbed Bryan of his Championship after just one significant (and sh*t) angle, but the company gamely attempted to keep his feud with the oppressive Authority going via Brie Bella and Stephanie McMahon. So far so good, too - Bella was booked as on McMahon's intellectual level on television, with Stephanie requiring her husband Triple H to subdue Nikki to get the jump on her twin before their SummerSlam clash.
It fell apart with the result of the pay-per-view. Just one more step on that neverending quest for heat, the match served only to take Hunter and Stephanie out of the angle and drop Nikki back in. She turned on her sister for no adequately explored reason, creating a reason for them to fight each other for months until reconciling with similarly little thought.
The Authority had by then moved on to other things, never to be avenged by Bryan or Brie for their relentless misdeeds.