[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan There's something weird about this whole situation...

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw CONSPIRACY THEORY: They don't want to bring Daniel Bryan back because he would take away from them trying to get Roman Reigns over via everyone cheering for Bryan instead.

Originally Posted by Rammsteinmad Honestly would not put this past them.

Neither would I, especially considering they passed up the easy Authority heel turn in an effort to keep driving home that this is the new hero, instead of blowing up all that hard work of calculated force-feeding and let Ambrose become "the man". I would also hazard a guess that this is also "a" reason they had backed off of Kevin Steen a bit, as simply being the anti-Cena was taking away from people talking about Reigns.

Less conspiracy and more reasonable (well...) thinking, though, is that they don't want him making big noise elsewhere. Kind of a CM Punk/OVW situation Paul E. talked about... they had him because of the buzz and didn't want that buzz elsewhere, but didn't know what to do with him. For example, imagine he went back to ROH. He could go there in pretty much the same limited date capacity that Brock has in WWE and the web traffic alone for ROH would be staggering. Excluding that, and even with all the turmoil in the North American landscape with Lucha Underground and TNA and Global Force, say DB went to NJPW. In this day and age, that would be HUGE, as Japan isn't necessarily this entity people Stateside don't know or care about.

They already played the fired* card with him and let him go play elsewhere for awhile until the bad PR from Justin Roberts selling like a goddamn champion evaporated. But that wasl also before his overness hitfever pitch. If they tried that again, with the same guy, no less, bullshit would get called pretty fast.

tl;dr I think they still "don't see value" in him even though he's already proven otherwise, but see enough value to know they can't let someone else have it. Sort of like a game company sitting on an IP they have no interest in using rather than letting an interested party buy the rights from them and do something with it. Corporate thinking: making no money is better than letting some one else make money.