Hey everyone, its been a while since I have written a blog on here. I've been busy for the most part and haven't had the time. However, I felt I needed to make this blog to vent out some anger I've had over the past day. So here we go:
As we all have heard, Daniel Bryan aka Brian Danielson was released from WWE on June 11th under strange circumstances. Now many people including myself, when I first heard of this I thought it was a work as part of the invasion storyline WWE did this past monday on Raw. Little did I come to realize soon after that the firing was legit, and it was due to the fact from what the Internet Wrestling sites are reporting that someone who will probably not be named, went to WWE management and said that what Daniel Bryan did, by choking Justin Roberts with his tie this past week was "too violent for kids to watch, and thought kids might attempt to do the same thing." Apparently right after this person told WWE management this, Bryan was released and put on the future endeavored list.
First off, according to WWE storylines, these rookies beside Wade Barrett supposedly dont have contracts, so your breaking kayfabe right there by announcing it on your site that he has been released from his contract. But thats not the main issue here.
Wrestling in itself is violent. Punches are violent, everything is violent in wrestling. You cant have it both ways, you can either be violent, or not be violent. Which would make wrestling more boring then it has been if you can imagine that. There is no 50/50 here. I guess after the whole Chris Beniot thing in 2007 WWE decided that any type of strangling is banned, which is news to me, because I had never heard of it until now. Good Lord, give me a break, its been 3 years already WWE, stop trying to blame everything on Chris Beniot, people for the most part have forgotten it, it seems the only ones who haven't is you. I can understand how things were when the media jumped all over them after these murders took place, but I dont think the media is playing the "gotcha game" anymore on WWE as far as Chris Beniot goes. Its over and done with, move on!!
Another point I wanted to get to, is the chocking that Bryan did was shown on TV. If WWE doesn't want someone to be seen choking someone, then move the camera away, instead the camera zoomed in so everyone saw Bryan choking Roberts. When did this backlash happen all of a sudden on Daniel Bryan about him chocking Justin Roberts. I didn't hear anything from fans or officals complaining about it. So why all of a sudden does one persons stupid opinion get someone to lose their job? And that one person certainly wasn't Vince because he was thrilled with this angle. I guess it just goes to show hoe easily manipulated the old man is nowadays. Point of this paragraph is blame your cameraman for even showing it.
Finally, if Bryan did choke Roberts because he was doing what the creative team was telling him, then fire your creative team, not the person who is just doing his job to make it look realistic. I highly doubt the creative team just said., "Go out there and create caos and attack everything and well see how it goes." No, Im sure they went over what they wanted each of the 8 rookies to do, INCLUDING THE JUSTIN ROBERTS CHOKING! So there again, another part of the blame lies on your creative team for telling someone to do something that was "not PG."
It seems suspensions aren't in place either when breaking a rule, I guess people are just fired from 1 strike. From what I've heard WWE does want to hire Daniel back after things "cool down." I hope thats the case and if they do hire him back they need to apologize. Its been a long time since I've heard of anyone fired over something so stupid and insignificant. WWE have become very paranoid these past couple years to the point that they are blaming talent for their own problems. This is what WWE has come to under the PG era, and its scary to see where they will be a couple years from now.