I'll finish with the saddest name on the list. Since relinquishing the Intercontinental Championship in May of this year, Daniel Bryan has been on the injured list. Despite the man himself frequently remarking in interviews that his own doctors have cleared him to return, it seems that the WWE quacks are less willing to do so. All sorts of rumours have been popping around, including one that WWE are reluctant to bring Bryan back because of what it would mean for their prodigal son, Roman Reigns. It is more likely that the concussions and fear of future ones will stop him from being cleared by the company. Daniel Bryan has made it clear on a number of occasions that all he truly wants to do is wrestle, and that not being allowed to do so by WWE has left him in something of a limbo. If the company continue to refuse to clear him something will have to give, and I suspect this would be the two parting ways. This way Bryan gets to compete again, and the WWE will be free of their most organically popular superstar. Yeah, that last part sounds like WWE shooting themselves in the foot, but stranger things have happened. With each passing month it seems less and less likely that Daniel Bryan will step foot in a WWE ring again.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
