Daniel Bryan has retired.
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I wish this was a work but I know it isn't... :'(
The build up to WM30 and the whole Daniel Bryan Yes movement is what got me back into watching wrestling regularly for the first time in probably a close to a decade. (There were some really dark times in the mid-2000's. I remember tuning in once and seeing that God awful 'Spinner Belt' and thinking 'Wrestling will never be interesting to me ever again'.) With all the injuries at the moment and the failed Reigns push I really fear for where the WWE is headed.
Oh well.. at least we get to fully commit to AJ Styles now, right?
The build up to WM30 and the whole Daniel Bryan Yes movement is what got me back into watching wrestling regularly for the first time in probably a close to a decade. (There were some really dark times in the mid-2000's. I remember tuning in once and seeing that God awful 'Spinner Belt' and thinking 'Wrestling will never be interesting to me ever again'.) With all the injuries at the moment and the failed Reigns push I really fear for where the WWE is headed.
Oh well.. at least we get to fully commit to AJ Styles now, right?
CTE?
ryutaro's mama
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This shit better not end up being a gotdamn work...
Fernando Fernandez
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Well at least wrestlegaf will be happy. They finally got their wish.
I for one, am heartbroken/
I for one, am heartbroken/
convincing myself it's a storyline swerve and we get D Bryan wrestling at Wrestlemania.
Ninja Scooter
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can't detect CTE on a live person I don't think.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
WWE is gonna turn him into Ron Simmons trot him out a couple times a year for cheap YES! chant pops. Fuck this company.
HazySaiyan
Banned
Am I being worked right now?
I don't believe there is a test yet for that for living people. They saw something though.
UberTag
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That chair to the skull was the effective killshot of the B+ player's career.I wish this was a work but I know it isn't... :'(
The chair never hit Bryan's head. Triple H is a pro. He hit the ring post and Bryan sold it.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I've worked myself into a shoot,brother
Did it really hit his head? I can't tell due to the Dunn cuts
Ninja Scooter
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the next time we see Daniel Bryan will be in a few years at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony
when he inducts Sheamus
Good Job Bob
Member
They're really going all in on this work huh?
giancarlo123x
Banned
This makes me so sad. I'm for sure tuning in around 10 to watch.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
It's all Brie Bella, now.
I know they can't detect until you're dead..visually. But are there other tests they can do?
I KNOW RIGHT ROMAN'S GOING TO SUPERMAN PUNCH BRYAN AND CUT A PROMO.
'All you fucking filthy disgusting moob hippies who love Daniel Bryan WATCH AS I GROW SO STRONG over his broken body. CAUSE I'M SO STTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG.'
Welcome to the wonderful world of wrestling fandom.
TimeEffect
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His promo ability is fantastic: arrogant heel, tantrum throwing heel, comedy heel, comedy face, underdog. He played all of these perfectly.
When he's mad, you know it because his promos show it. He yells, sounds genuinely angry, and gets the crowd worked up. He gets worked up.
Sure, his post-Mania face stuff was weak, but seemed much more like WWE creative doing their vanilla face stuff. We know he can be great on the mic.
He's naturally likeable. The crowd eats him up and he carries a lot of weight because of it.
And most of all, he was genuinely, really, an underdog who was being held down by the authority.
He's everything Roman Reigns is supposed to be right now, but he's actually a damn good wrestler, actually likeable, and knows how to carry himself.
Not sure how he can be just an ordinary indie guy to you
Hell man, I was pumped for a Bryan/Cena II.
I don't believe so
Serpentine
Banned
It's a Heavy post, so yes
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
On the one hand completely gutted, dude was so awesome. But I really hope this is just a real retirement, no work, no shit just have this just be the end. Don't want him to be another tragic story in the long list of tragic stories with wrestling.
Nocturnowl
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Gutted, I'll be taking solace in the fact that the events of Wrestlemania 30 managed to unfold the way they did, against all the odds we somehow got that big time Bryan moment and something the fans were fully invested in, no crowd mixed reaction, just pure dang elation for a change.
Bryan even saved my man Kane from falling back into inevitable jobberdom for around a year thanks to Team Hell No, which was god damn terrific I might add.
Who'd have thought that in 2016 Kofi would be the one flying highest in WWE out of this snapshot.
Bryan even saved my man Kane from falling back into inevitable jobberdom for around a year thanks to Team Hell No, which was god damn terrific I might add.
Who'd have thought that in 2016 Kofi would be the one flying highest in WWE out of this snapshot.
It's funny how people only ever seem to cite his generic face promos post-WM 30 2014 and in 2015 as proof that Bryan couldn't do promos.
He was vastly underrated as a talker, really. Even in NXT 2010 he did some good ones, and that was he was being portrayed as the "vanilla midget". He was able to do serious (see mid 2013-WM 30), goofy (Team Hell No and his Dazzler appearances in the youtube videos) and was a great heel talker (his WHC run).
He's by far a better talker than a certain blue contact wearing person on WWE TV right now.
He was vastly underrated as a talker, really. Even in NXT 2010 he did some good ones, and that was he was being portrayed as the "vanilla midget". He was able to do serious (see mid 2013-WM 30), goofy (Team Hell No and his Dazzler appearances in the youtube videos) and was a great heel talker (his WHC run).
He's by far a better talker than a certain blue contact wearing person on WWE TV right now.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Yeah I logged into Gaf to make my one post every couple months to troll this thread. Stop with this condescending shit. I can't stand the Wrasslin thread in its current state. So much gimmick posting it's almost unreadable.
Boy Wander
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I hope this post is a work. If he was a charisma vacuum, how in the hell was he capable of getting over, by himself, EVERYWHERE he worked?
You might not like him but clearly a shit load of fans actually did.
ElectricBlanketFire
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There are certainly telltale signs of someone with CTE, but can't be confirmed as of now without actually looking at the brain.
UberTag
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Kofi is planning to retire as soon as the New Day run is over. He knows he's never getting a meaningful singles push in that company.
Cody should be the last one standing. Although I'm not sure it's a complete lock between him and Ryder. Ryder will stick around to live his dream in any capacity as long as WWE will have him.
They're both still young at 30 so it's probably too soon to declare a winner.
LMAO. Wrestling fans just never know when to say 'when'. It's over, just let it go!
Dark Ninja
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Your getting worked brother
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Anyone reading that thinking this is cut and dry with no WWE shenanigans is delusional, PERIOD.
strikeselect
You like me, you really really like me!
Something smells fishy about this whole thing. We all know ratings have been in the tank recently and Vinnie Mac isn't above a work of this magnitude.
I'll wait to see how this plays out...
I'll wait to see how this plays out...
Strangelove77
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There's a large gap in my wrestling knowledge from the last decade or so, so when and why did this happen? Why is he wearing the hat?
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Man that is so sad. Was really hoping this was a work but it almost assuredly is not. I don't know if it's worth buying a ticket to Raw just to be able to hear him in person, but I'm definitely contemplating it.
Ninja Scooter
Member
this makes no sense as a work.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Bryan won the meaningless IC title at WM31 while pushing Roman to the moon.
Your theory doesn't make any sense.
TemplaerDude
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Posters keep calling other posters out on gimmick posting but I'm confused about whose gimmick posting and whose not gimmick posting and now I think I've swerved myself. These threads are always so confusing.
Sad to see Brian retiring
I was hoping he'd somehow find a way back but it never looked likely.
Sad to see Brian retiring
I was hoping he'd somehow find a way back but it never looked likely.- Status