Daniel Bryan announcing that he's entering the Royal Rumble is not necessarily mutually exclusive with him winning the match. If you're a watcher of Total Divas, one of the key storylines of the last season revolved around debating about Bryan's health and ultimately his ability to ever wrestle again. The Royal Rumble is many things, a low-impact space to get back into the swing of pro wrestling among that number. Does the feud that gives him his Wrestlemania 31 match come out of the Rumble? Most certainly. Daniel Bryan versus say, Rusev or Seth Rollins? Could happen. Also, he could just win the whole entire damned thing, too? Yes! Or No? Maybe? Definitely.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.