9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 8)
2. Career Retrospective
Theres a lot you can criticize WWE about regularly, but one thing that has to get near-universal praise is the companys video package team. The people who put together the special video packages are top-notch and deserve a ton of credit for often making chicken salad out of chicken s***. But in the case of Daniel Bryan, the video makers did a masterful job of taking the mans career highlights and presenting them in a way that just built throughout Raw, until you could feel things reaching a climax with Bryans announcement. They walked through Daniels career, beginning with NXT, winning the United States Championship, winning Money in the Bank, Team Hell No, beating John Cena at SummerSlam, and of course, winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hgRilxPup0 If you have the time, sift through the videos on WWEs YouTube channel. There probably will be more done in the coming days on the WWE Network (or you could seek out the actual matches), but the videos are a great way to sum up Bryans remarkable career.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
