Last Monday, Stephanie McMahon announced that she wanted Daniel Bryan to appear on the next episode of Raw to formally surrender the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. As of yesterday, Bryan is advertised for the show, which returns its usual live airing, in Knoxville, TN. While it's always possible that WWE could give us the runaround by having Bryan appear "via satellite", I don't see that going down. It may have been an idea but, if it was, my guess is that it's bee droped. Last Monday's Raw drew the worst numbers of 2014 and since next week's Raw is the go home show for Payback, it's pretty likely Bryan will appear live next week in the hopes of boosting viewership.
So the big question is what exactly will go down in this segment? The most obvious answer is that Bryan will be stripped considering his neck injury and the projected amount of recovery time. At the same time though, an argument can be made that WWE won't go that direction because it's so obvious. That's only been compounded with Stephanie reverting more to the openly mean spirited bitch that she's been towards Bryan and that the legit injury has been made part of an ongoing storyline. By now, you'd think that Bryan would already have been written completely off television and the title stripped from him as of Monday if his condition was to the point that he was going to be missing months of action. After all, Daniel Bryan showing up next week and simply handing over the title would be about as anti-climatic as it can get when compared to the epic moment of him becoming champion. Doing that, in my opinion, could possibly hurt Bryan's image in the eyes of the fans. Because of the injury, Bryan could've been stripped with no damage done, but it could be a different story if he shows up to just meekly hand over the title.
One possibility I think could be going down is WWE making us believe that Daniel Bryan is going to be out for a lot longer than he actually will be. It's unlikely he'll wrestle at Payback unless the injury's severity is genuinely as relatively small as the very initial reports indicated; said reports suggested he could potentially return to compete at Payback, depending upon the success of the surgery, the exact amount of damage done and how quickly he heals up. Personally, and this is just pure speculation since I obviously have no access to the man's medical records, I don't believe he'll compete as it might be tempting fate a little too much.
So what do you suppose will happen on Raw this Monday?
So the big question is what exactly will go down in this segment? The most obvious answer is that Bryan will be stripped considering his neck injury and the projected amount of recovery time. At the same time though, an argument can be made that WWE won't go that direction because it's so obvious. That's only been compounded with Stephanie reverting more to the openly mean spirited bitch that she's been towards Bryan and that the legit injury has been made part of an ongoing storyline. By now, you'd think that Bryan would already have been written completely off television and the title stripped from him as of Monday if his condition was to the point that he was going to be missing months of action. After all, Daniel Bryan showing up next week and simply handing over the title would be about as anti-climatic as it can get when compared to the epic moment of him becoming champion. Doing that, in my opinion, could possibly hurt Bryan's image in the eyes of the fans. Because of the injury, Bryan could've been stripped with no damage done, but it could be a different story if he shows up to just meekly hand over the title.
One possibility I think could be going down is WWE making us believe that Daniel Bryan is going to be out for a lot longer than he actually will be. It's unlikely he'll wrestle at Payback unless the injury's severity is genuinely as relatively small as the very initial reports indicated; said reports suggested he could potentially return to compete at Payback, depending upon the success of the surgery, the exact amount of damage done and how quickly he heals up. Personally, and this is just pure speculation since I obviously have no access to the man's medical records, I don't believe he'll compete as it might be tempting fate a little too much.
So what do you suppose will happen on Raw this Monday?
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