A look at all the reasons of why Bryan Danielson got fired must have already been discussed on the threads already, but hopefully this post will be unique enough to stand on its own
because I just have to air out my points and see if I can engage some of you folks on here about this situation.
When Bryan Danielson (I'm sorry but calling him Daniel Bryan is a struggle for me.) got fired for choking out Justin Roberts with his tie and spitting on Cena, the internet theorists bandied about a plethora of rumors and many of which just reek of pure BS to me from the get go. Anyway let's recap those supposed reasons real quick.
1. Public Pressure From Mattel:
- I am going to start with the stupidest one yet, now I can't prove this nor can anyone else not working for either party. However, the Mattel just annoys the ever loving crap out of me! Now for the wrestling fans on here that read comic books might share my opinion on this one but for those who are unaware of Mattel's licenses, not only do they have WWE under their banner but they also have a relationship with DC Comics. Not too mention they have made action figures based on R-Rated films in the past, like Demolition Man!
For anyone who has ever read a DC Comic you would know that despite their more kid friendly titles with imprints like "Johnny DC", the company has a rich history of using rape, murder, mass genocide in their major storyilnes. Now granted, Mattel has never made any playsets featuring a supervillain raping an adversary's wife (like one storyline featured). The idea that Mattel would have a working relationship with a company who's created content like this and then be offended at anything WWE does is preposterous. I know what Danielson did was in the live action world and not in the animated or sequential art world but violent content is violent content. If Mattel was to bellyache and bitch about something like that to WWE that would be entirely hypocritical and just plain stupid. Therefore I ruled that out from the start, just recently the net has surfaced with an update saying Mattel was never involved. That was my feeling from the start, but whoever out there made up that rumor has to be a complete idiot. I'm sorry but I have to throw my two cents in on that.
2. Linda's Senate Race:
- I have heard that Jim Ross said that this wasn't the reason either, but to be honest between that and Mattel, the Linda Senate race makes a lot more sense as a theory. I mean in the past few months they have attacked Linda on issues like the Katie Vick storyline. However, this is just a rumor too and there was never any real substantial proof that Linda's PR people wanted Danielson fired.
3. Too reminiscent of the Benoit Murder/Suicide:
- It's possible but at the same time, I doubt this too. Since Benoit's death HBK and HHH have used the Crippler Crossface, and we saw enough images of the film on the mainstream news where people who don't watch wrestling would have a pretty good idea what that move is. Plus when you think about the violent and aggressive acts that WWE has aired on their shows since the Benoit incident they are situations that are no better than Justin Roberts' assault and John Cena's humiliation at Danielson's hand. After all has anyone forgotten the time HHH pulled a "Shining" on Randy Orton's home and broke the damn door open with his sledgehammer? During that whole storyline, I also remember a restrained Triple H watching Randy Orton assault Stephanie McMahon and then giving her a kiss while she was unconscious. Granted that this did not involve strangulation but how is what happened in those situations justifiable and this even overlapped with the same time period that Linda announced her intentions to run for office. On top of it all these were acts that have been PG era as well, how amusing and double standard riddled is that way of thinking on WWE's part? While the Benoit incident is a great excuse on the surface to use, it's very hypocritical and just plain stupid to compare what Danielson did. Too violent for TV my ass, after watching everything WWE has done for years, that could be considered pretty tame, and besides what kid under the age of 13 is going to be up past 10PM to see this in the first place?! Therefore I have to rule out the Benoit incident and the whole "too violent for tv idea" being why WWE chose to fire Danielson. Again if these are the reasons, then it shows WWE as a place full of double standards and hypocrisy. But remember that's IF. There is no real proof that is this why they chose to fire Danielson. It's only speculation, ridiculous speculation at that.
4. Backstage politics:
- This is possible too, WWE is no different than any other corporation. There will be people who like you and people who don't. Sometimes that is enough to either make or break you in a company. I was never backstage to see how Danielson got along with everyone, so I am no authority on this. If I tried to sell this as the reason this firing definitely happened, I would be no different than most idiots on the internet who love their conspiracies. This is a very good possibility and probably the most likely. But who really knows, none of us posting on here know how the business side of WWE works so we should be very careful to comment on this because none of us are authorities on how WWE does their business. And for those that think John Cena is behind a ruse that had something to do with Danielson's firing who really knows? Some people might think he's trying to use Twitter pleading Danielson's case as a ploy to get more IWC folk to like him? In my opinion getting Danielson fired and then trying to sound like a champion to Danielson's cause sounds like a massive waste of energy and all too elaborate a plan. However, since he has posted stuff on Twitter this might have some merit, but people I think are writing too much into Cena's tweets. So who really knows, who really cares about this aspect of the Danielson firing. To be honest I think someone like John Cena (and believe me I am not a big fan of this guy, but I gotta let personal bias step aside) who is the top gun in their chosen profession could really give a shit what anyone out in cyberspace really thinks!
After going through all those possible reasons, I'm going to say that I don't know what got Danielson fired, I wasn't there to see what went down and I only have what I've seen on TV to tell me of this situation. To say that any of the above mentioned possibilities are iron clad reasons would be just as foolish on my part. I have no authority on the what, where and why. In the end I hope this is all a work like some people have been saying, if it is it would be a great storyline and such an awesome swerve to throw at the opinionated, know it all fanbase that makes up a good portion of the Internet Wrestling Community.
At the end who really knows, if we see Bryan Danielson back on the "91st day" in a WWE ring, then it's a good possibility that everyone out there following this case has been played.
Anyway, your turn now my fellow forum readers to weigh in on what you think. Granted it's been a couple weeks since this happened, but it's still a fresh enough debate to get more input from all of you! So let's get this started...
