Daniel Bryan beat the WWE Champion clean at SummerSlam. In kayfabe, he is an A+ Superstar. Calling him "B+" is a heel delusional lie. Saying you like him but he can't be allowed to success is inane.

Bryan should have went out there with a Zamboni, attack Vince, then chugged a beer!

I can see guys like Ziggler, Show, Henry, all rallying behind Bryan and helping him fend off the Shield.

Speaking of the Shield, I was holding out hope Bryan would come down and the Shield would let him get to the ring.

that would be sweet

Bryan comes down and the Shield give him a nod and let him go through, then they jump up on the other three sides of the ring and destroy the McMahons and Randy Orton

then they win the WWE title and defend it as a collective

lies

OR

Bryan comes out with back up in the form of the ghost of Andre the Giant. Ambrose runs away as Reigns and Rollins get laid out with ghost headbutts. Vince takes the butt splash in the corner as Bryan Yes Locks everyone.

Or he comes back to the ring with this guy:

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They probably should have made Bryan a little stronger there but I guess it build sympathy and puts over the new corporation as heels.

it's kinda cool that I'll be cheering on the top face against the heels, I haven't done that in ages!

I think it's just that we're so used to the babyfaces being assholes, the heels being rational, and babyfaces being unstoppable that we forget that faces can be in the right and get beaten down.

Who does Bryan take out first guys? Who is the pawn in this new corporation that gets taken out on Smackdown? or next weeks Raw? Hope they put him over Ryback in the lead up to NOC.

Probably Seth Rollins.

Who will get fired first from the Corporation and switch sides? And Who will screw who?!?!?11//1/1

Kinda wanna see Linda get involved in this somehow.

Either that or Bryan goes all crazy and plays mind games with the McMahons. Shows up to the McMahons house and goes crazy.

Like what HHH did to Orton not to long ago. Showed up at his place and trashed the house.

If Bryan had come out with Shane, I may have exploded from excitement.

I agree.. But that's not what I meant.. The argument was the gear represents the wrestler, and Cody needing to change his to help further his career.. I'm just sayin Austin was massively over and he wore a plain Jane, run of the mill black diaper

Gotta be honest, I'm legit excited for the next 7 months of WWE television.

Gertner came out of retirement to stab me in the heart

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I guess that's why the crowd was dead when he came out. Like it was dead at MITB when he won the briefcase in the first place.

Just watched Raw, loved the end. Bryan is the man and his momentum is going to build and build with how disgustingly heel-ish the McMahon's, Triple H, and Orton are together. Digging this.

Loving this Bryan vs Orton/HHH/McMahons so far. Can't wait to see what they do next. Combining that with Punk and Heyman being incredible in their feud so far, it's making for some great television.

Between those two big feuds, the Shield, the Wyatts, Rhodes/Sandow and some of the tag team action we've had recently and I'm really excited for what's coming. Hopefully it'll stay pretty solid for at least the next few months. Still gonna enjoy it as long as I can.

just noticed that "fucking" is censored in the thread title, but "cunt" is not.

Finally someone noticed it :D

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tmIIbY1o0k...45-624-390.jpg

I'm really looking forward to Orton's moronic bugeyed facial expressions when/if this leads up to a concrete match and when/if Bryan's allowed to put him is his finisher.

Orton vs Henry! Night of Champions! Will THE APEX PREDATOR be able to turn back the challenge from the Curator of THE HALL OF PAIN? IT'S WHAT HE DOES!!!!

Ring gear can represent a wrestler. I never said Cody needed to change. I just think switching to longer tights would give him a fresher look and maybe look a bit more like a babyface. He doesn't need to do it, but I think it would aid. Like when Chris Jericho turned heel in 2008, switching to the super-serious short trunks helped change the vibes Jericho gave off. Or when The Miz did the same thing when he dropped the shorts for the trunks.

Plain Jane, run of the mill black trunks worked for Austin because he was "no-nonsense" and had no time to worry about such things. Black trunks, please, and step on it. I would contend that if Austin had worn much of anything else, he wouldn't have given off the same vibe. When he was a heel he did shake things up with different colored knee braces.

I'd love to see Vickie Guerrero stand tall and give Big Show, Dolph Ziggler & Daniel Bryan a six-man tag against The Shield on SmackDown. Also, Big Show should not be afraid of The Corporation, since he has an iron-clad contract. I do think that maybe they should have him align with Triple H and co., though, just to make his life easier. Maybe you can have RVD or Christian win the World Heavyweight Title between now and then and Big Show can take that from them as a reward for selling out. Show can dispatch of the face in the rematch, then take out Mark Henry. Finally, you have Dolph Ziggler prove he can win the big one against the biggest guy on the roster.

In kayfabe, they still find him to be a B+ superstar because winning matches still isn't all it takes. They don't think he has the size/look to carry the company. It's heelish because he's actually successful and they wanna hamper that... but it's not "delusional" for them to consider him an A+ wrestler but a B+ superstar.

Like it was dead when his music hit at SummerSlam? Then when he pinned Bryan at SummerSlam?

Oh wait...

God I loved that Raw. I really thought that they were going to pretend to be slightly facey and let Bryan into the ring and just talk, but the Shield taking him out and Bryan almost taking all 3 of them if it wasn't for that sneaky spear was damn good. Then HHH with the patronising pep talk before the RKO.

I felt that The Nexus was ruined after their first PPV despite holding out hope. I think the Raws after Punk won the title at MITB were a let down... But this. This had everything awesome at Summerslam and then actually followed up on it well straight away.


This looks like a long build and I really hope it's a good multi-month program. Especially with Cena out of the picture.

It's an awesome storyline. Someone I think will be on DB's side..it'd be cool if it was Punk.

Oh come on. Everyone gets a great reaction when they cash in. Even Jack Swagger.

Well Swagger did cash in against a heel as opposed to the most over guy in the company whom the crowd was completely in love with.

I'm also coupling that with the fact that Orton had consistently been over/getting good reactions already. The guy is over even despite not doing anything of note for the better part of a year.

that Spear Roman Reigns hit on Bryan did not look good for his shoulder.

Did Narc come in here and spaz out yet?

First thing I thought of when I saw this was:

Don't you mean this?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...1b777debab.jpg

My favorite moment from this gimmick came during the '92 Royal Rumble...

Bobby Heenan: Shawn Michaels is making Guacamole out of El Matador!

Gorilla Monsoon: HE IS not!

Bobby Heenan: Look at his tights, they're green!