6 Reasons Daniel Bryan's Retirement Will Hurt WWE In The Long Run
4. WWE Reverts Back To The Typical Wrestler Status Quo
It was pretty obvious as soon as fans started getting behind Daniel Bryan that WWE didn't agree. They may have worked it into storyline, but you had the distinct impression that company didn't want to invest their time with Bryan Danielson. At five foot eight, and easily under two hundred pounds, he was not the prototypical wrestler in the John Cena or Randy Orton mould that Vince McMahon seems to fantasise so much about. When fan despondency (we'll get onto more of that later) forced the hand of WWE's top brass, they suddenly found themselves with a main event talent, and arguably the face of the company, not to their required specifications. CM Punk may have started it with that magnificent pipebomb promo, but Daniel Bryan carried it for much longer. The scope of WWE's landscape had changed; the champion no longer had to be a six foot-plus behemoth of muscle, just a hugely talented in-ring specialist. Now that Daniel Bryan has retired, the status quo is back to normal; enormous muscular athletes, with very little talent in the ring are ruling the roost again (I'm looking at you Reigns and Sheamus). You can't help but feel Vince McMahon is sitting somewhere in Stamford, Connecticut, quietly thinking to himself I won.
