Fantasy Booking Incoming: Booking Daniel Bryan to Wrestlemania
Y'know what? They should have actually let D. Brine cash in his MITB contract the night Big Show rushed him into attempting it. It should've happened on Raw though to avoid spoilers. Why? Because then, right when it looked like D. Brine was going to win, Henry should've beat his ass and pinned him. D. Brine would be left as the first person to fail cashing in, his pride broken, and completely out of it mentally. Later on in the night, Striker could catch him leaving the building and ask for his reaction, and all he would respond with would be "I lost," and walk away.
Then for like a month and 1/2, every interview with D. Brine would only result in him saying "I lost" at varying levels of intensity leaving the interviewer dumbfounded. In the meantime, he would be absolutely destroying jobbers in like 2 minutes on his road back to the World Title. Mark Henry and Big Show's feud would be continuing as if nothing happened as well to make matters worse. Then in month 3, which would be about time for the Royal Rumble, Bryan would continue his hot streak going the ENTIRE Rumble eliminating 5-8 midhigh to high card people, but lose when it's down to the final 3. He wouldn't snap though, he'd just sit outside the ring in shock for a while, and walk away almost comatose after like 2 minutes.
On Raw the next night, while the Big Show, who's since moved on from Mark Henry after losing at TLC, is giving a promo, Bryan comes out and absolutely destroys his leg. The same leg that Big Show injured on Henry. Why? Because, as Bryan would explain in his first long promo since November, the last 2 months have been Big Show's fault. Bryan didn't want to cash in, but the Big Show was like the devil on his shoulder who tricked him into cashing in before he was ready, and before he promised to just to get him out of the picture. Big Show KNEW Henry wasn't really THAT hurt, but he pushed Bryan into it anyway.
Cue month long feud of Bryan/Big Show with Bryan playing the heel and constantly working the leg he injured on Raw. In the blowoff match at Elimination Chamber, Bryan wins and does everything but rip Show's leg out of the socket in a post-match beatdown. Should be March by now, and on Smackdown, Teddy Long calls Bryan out to tell him that he was considering giving Bryan another World Title shot, but after witnessing his change in character throughout February, and his actions at the end of the match at Elimination Chamber, he couldn't possibly reward the actions of a disturbed man. "DISTURBED MAN, YOU SAY?" and Bryan snaps on Teddy Long forcing security to rush the ring and pull him off, and up the ramp.
Smackdown 2nd week into March, and the show opens with Henry and Teddy Long from his Long's "office" and in full "neck brace wearing injured GM" style is about to suspend Bryan until the interview gets cut short when Bryan rushes the room and beats on Henry with a chair, corners Teddy Long, then muscles his way to a World Title shot at Wrestlemania or else he'll come back every week to take people out. Bryan's established, instant face turn since Henry's still a heel, match that's been brewing since November, Bryan wins, new star is born, Henry loses the rematch as well because he's been in the Title picture for a while and gets moved down, and Cody Rhodes starts a feud with D. Brine in June 2012 on a path to building Rhodes into a main event heel.
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