Daniel Bryan Released *GIVE OPINIONS*

[It's...Baylariat!]

Bottom line is that I don't believe this is legit one bit. Why would you releases someone who may or may not have even KNOWN about a choking rule in place? Danielson's an aggressive guy and likes to make things look real, but if he were told beforehand to not do something, he wouldn't do it.

And if this a legit release, it's fucking stupid. And the WWE's gone too far with its PG standards. They're taking the wind out of the sails so to speak. If they wanted to really enforce a PG rating, then there would be no more WWE Divas showing cleavage or camel toes on a weekly basis, or no Divas at all for that matter. This can't be a real release. If it is, the WWE's made a huge, HUGE mistake. And hopefully will pay for it in the long term.

 

[waylonmercy]

I don't understand how choking someone out with a tie is not PG content but assaulting someone ficticiously is. Violence is violence and if they get a PG rating for what they do on TV I don't see how choking someone with a tie breaks the barriers.

Who knows what is going to happen and if this is a work or legit. This is possibly the WWE's attempt to further build on their mainstream Internet buzz by firing the Internet's darling. I can't see the WWE rationalizing firing a talented worker, who was involved in a great angle with Michael Cole only a few weeks ago, when they are pushing smaller talent due to their advanced skills and John Cena came out this week requesting another smaller wrestler Evan Bourne be pushed because he felt if they didn't push the smaller talent they would risk having a stale in ring product.

We will have to see what the end result is after all is said and done.

 

[Vash21]

Bottom line is that I don't believe this is legit one bit. Why would you releases someone who may or may not have even KNOWN about a choking rule in place? Danielson's an aggressive guy and likes to make things look real, but if he were told beforehand to not do something, he wouldn't do it.

And if this a legit release, it's fucking stupid. And the WWE's gone too far with its PG standards. They're taking the wind out of the sails so to speak. If they wanted to really enforce a PG rating, then there would be no more WWE Divas showing cleavage or camel toes on a weekly basis, or no Divas at all for that matter. This can't be a real release. If it is, the WWE's made a huge, HUGE mistake. And hopefully will pay for it in the long term.

I agree 100% the divas still dress and only sometime act like ****s opposed to dressing like hookers and acting like ****es all the time as they have in the past.

If the current product is PG then I am the Brooklyn Brawler. This is obviously a work.

 

[TellMeWhy]

This is not a work people. How can you be released from a contract you never had. According to kayfabe, Daniel Bryan didn't have a WWE contract so how could he be released. It's a plothole. Storyline wise it doesn't make sense. Stop with the wishful thinking. Daniel is gone.

 

[closet_fan]

i'm trying not to believe it. i am hoping that more nxt guys get announced as "released" to make it look more like a work. if they go out of their way to bring it up on RAW, then i will have no doubts that it is a work.

but it sounds like the tie incident and the spitting on cena was icing on the cake.

this pg nonsense is getting too out of hand.

whomever in the booth told them to put the camera on danielson doing the tie choke should be the one who was fired.

and with the spitting, once again the E shows that cena is the golden boy and can't have any sort of heat against him.

 

[Andy 2 Randy]

If this is Legit, which it could well be, this is the biggest mistake that WWE has made. He is a great talent, and im shocked that they don't want him. Who cares if he choked Justin Roberts, it was part of a storyline, and a good one at that. He was getting so much momentum by beating Miz, NXTWO...and now he's 'Fired'.
However though (if someone else has posted this im sorry, i wasn't going to look through 21 pages!) Maybe The Big E has done this to make was for Bryan Danielson...May happen and he was mentioning it many times. If not, WWE are blind... Oh No they hurt Cena, someone has to pay, its all focused on one man, they sould do what happened to Swagger and Bourne and give them a push...I'm Just Sayin...

 

[Vash21]

on a side note did anyone see Heath Slater almost choke Cena with the ring rope? He gave up, thought it might have been because the rope was too awkward but he might have gotten some kind of signal.

hope this is a work.

 

[RKO920]

I've been reading through everyone's posts for about a half hour and I've thought that this was a work but then it hit me, if the WWE wanted to make it seem like it was a work wouldn't they have announced that they released all of the nXt guys including Barrett and then have them still show up on Raw and give this storyline much more credibility.

While I thought Bryan had the most legit shot of becoming a major player in the WWE, if this is real I agree with mostly everyone here and say he would go back to ROH unless TNA were to make him a big offer, and then he would kill any shot of ever making it back to the WWE.

 

[The Doctor]

This can't be real. I refuse to believe it. WWE can't be that stupid...can they?

I mean, let me get this straight. They want to bring him up to the main roster immediately after hiring this guy, but he out of the goodness of his own heart and because he wants things to be perfect goes to FCW. They put him in a dark match on one of the biggest RAWs for a long time, the Jan. 4th RAW. They build a show around him. They put him in two of the biggest and hottest angles the WWE has produced recently. And then, they fire him for choking a ring announcer out with. his. TIE?! How does that make ANY kind of sense?

There are several other things that strike me as odd. For one, during the choking with the tie, why would they focus on it and have cameras in perfect position, if it was spur-of-the-moment? Why would they keep cameras on it if it was against a company rule? Why would they wait for a week before firing Danielson?

For another, the Twitter thing. Danielson didn't seem very upset about it, and he even quoted Wade Barrett's "Winds of Change" line. He even changed his official WWE Twitter to "bryandanielson", instead of making a new one.

Also, wrestlers are allowed to use drugs and shit in bags, only getting a fine or suspension, but a rookie to the company chokes out a guy and later gets fired for it because of a rule he may not have known?

Fourth, why would they be looking to bring him back if they fired him? Couldn't they just have suspended him for the duration of the storyline, keeping him contracted so he didn't jump ship to TNA or go back to ROH?

I want this to be a work. But slowly, as the reports come out, my optimism is fading. If this is legit, I will be very upset. As a big fan of the guy, I want Danielson to succeed in the biggest company of them all. He was on a roll, and they swept the rug from under him. Danielson was talented and charismatic in his own way, and was already getting over.

Please let this be a work.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

He CHOKED a guy with...his own tie?? Oh my God...Earth-shattering shit right there. Jesus.

If the WWE actually released this guy because of that, it could be one of the dumbest reasons for shitcanning someone in the history of...the world. So, in a (kayfabe) violent sporting event, you can't choke someone? These guys do nothing but beat the shit out of one another in front of thousands of people every night...but choking someone is unacceptable?

We have seen Randy Orton PUNT defenseless people in the skull. We have seen Kane threaten to MURDER "whoever did this to my brother," and send them to Hell. We have watched Michelle McCool and Layla rip on a girl because she's fat (ya know, same reason why several young women KILL themselves each year). We watch HHH hit people with slegdehammers, and Sheamus hit people with pipes.

My point is, we see equally violent shit each week, but those things are ok? I don't get the rule. It sounds idiotic and odd. The whole show is based on violent acts. And I don't want to hear about the idiot kids out there possibly repeating what they saw happen to Justin Roberts. You think the kids out there even CARE to repeat something they watched being done by a wrestler they barely even know? I would be more worried about one of these kids attempting an FU on one of their little pals.

This whole thing annoys me to no end. I really don't even care about Danielson, I just think it's a bullshit reason to get canned. What's next? No closed-fist punches (which are already illegal)? No submissions? This PG-shit is getting out of hand.

 

[Widdows]

As much as I'd love this to be a storyline, I just don't think it is.
When Drew McIntrye was 'fired' by Teddy Long, they didn't put the future endeavors for him, so i'm sure he's gone unfortunately.
I think it was most likely for the tie around Justin Roberts' neck, or spitting in Cena's face. If you wacth it, you'll see that Justin doesn't have his hand between his neck and the tie, which would hurt massively.
He's deleted his Twitter account also with somebody already claiming it.

 

[closet_fan]

i usually never get upset or worked up from anything with wrestling whether someone wins, loses, gets canned, etc. but this really upsets me. i have heard of this danielson guy way before he even entered talks with the E and he seemed to be one of those old school guys anyone of any age could appreciate.

unfortunately, if this was a BIG muscular guy, vince would suspend him and keep him off tv. but since he is like us in stature and wasn't really big in the first place, he can afford to let him go.

i will be looking forward to seeing him back in ROH or tna.

 

[It's...Baylariat!]

As much as I'd love this to be a storyline, I just don't think it is.
When Drew McIntrye was 'fired' by Teddy Long, they didn't put the future endeavors for him, so i'm sure he's gone unfortunately.
I think it was most likely for the tie around Justin Roberts' neck, or spitting in Cena's face. If you watch it, you'll see that Justin doesn't have his hand between his neck and the tie, which would hurt massively.
He's deleted his Twitter account also with somebody already claiming it.

McIntyre was also fired on TV, too. Clearly a storyline.

And as far as the choke on Justin Roberts, typically if a 'stiff' move is going to be used, you're usually given the heads up about it. I'm sure Danielson went over what would possibly happen and Roberts probably agreed to it for a little extra money. That's how those things work. Make an agreement on how far to go, and keep it under that line. And how come Roberts was looking into the camera the ENTIRE time this was going on. Think about it. It's obvious that was pre-meditated by both of them and to be honest, I think the only reason Danielson cinched up more on it was because Roberts wasn't selling it enough in the beginning.

That being said, still a dumb reason to release someone if that's the case.

 

[bullandrood]

When I saw this first last night I thought it was a work to make his name back to Bryan Danielson,but after a little while I got uneasy that it was legit,and now...I really think it is. I've been hopeful for WWE all week with this NXT storyline,and now they do this...
Let's see some reasons WWE is PG:
Randy Orton punting people in the head,DDTing and kissing people's wives...
Divas still dressing in things that leave little to the imagination...
8 on 1 attack. Yes,the one from monday...8 people kicking and punching one man, throwing tables on older people, attacking anything and everything in site

Yeah...those are totally PG man.
To quote the Miz: REALLY WWE. REALLLLY? You have just royally screwed up all the hope I had for you all through the week.

 

[VLR]

The word within WWE is that the firing of Bryan Danielson is a legit firing. All of the higher ups within WWE were informed of the firing before the item was posted on WWE.com. While the timing of the release is interesting, working Donna Goldsmith and Michelle Wilson on a wrestling angle is hard to believe. This appears legit and he's gone.

http://wrestlingattitude.com/

Please make this a work. I watched RAW for the first time in years this week, and although it was terrible, the ending was the best thing I've seen on WWE TV. This totally ruins what could be a sensational invasion storyline.

If it is a work, I see Danielson taking Mysterio Jr. out at Fatal-4-Way (terrible PPV premise), and capturing the gold. Wasn't 'Taker drafted into the match to give Rey time off, only for Rey to bust him up? Makes sense.

 

[Widdows]

McIntyre was also fired on TV, too. Clearly a storyline.

And as far as the choke on Justin Roberts, typically if a 'stiff' move is going to be used, you're usually given the heads up about it. I'm sure Danielson went over what would possibly happen and Roberts probably agreed to it for a little extra money. That's how those things work. Make an agreement on how far to go, and keep it under that line. And how come Roberts was looking into the camera the ENTIRE time this was going on. Think about it. It's obvious that was pre-meditated by both of them and to be honest, I think the only reason Danielson cinched up more on it was because Roberts wasn't selling it enough in the beginning.

That being said, still a dumb reason to release someone if that's the case.

The McIntyre part was my point. He was 'fired' on TV but the future endeavors were not put up for him. When William Regal was fired on TV [in a loser leaves WWE match with Kennedy] for failing a wellness policy, they announced it on their website.
And look at how much force Danielson pulls the tie with. And then press your neck a tiny bit. Only a small amount of pressure on ones neck causes pain, so imagine it with all that power.

 

[Bobby B]

Not sure why anyone is questioning the legitimacy of this - he's been future endevoured - finito.

It's a pretty lame reason - sure, but it's happened.

As for this wrecking the nXt invasion - hardly. Sure there is plenty of love in the IWC for DBD, but I don't think most people will give a damn to be honest. You have 7 guys instead of 8 - it's not asif they were planning many 8 on 8 matches was it?

Guess we'll have to wait and see as the news develop, but it appears that someone (most likely advertisers) - has said that they weren't happy with what they saw. I think it's a bit harsh that DBD has taken the fall for this - it seems pre-planned, so he was just following orders.

I really don't think this is an angle, as an angle it achieves very little.

Personally, I'll miss him, because he's a very good wrestler, but give it 6 weeks and most will have forgotten about him. The storyline is far from dead without him.

 

[donutman]

McIntyre was also fired on TV, too. Clearly a storyline.

And as far as the choke on Justin Roberts, typically if a 'stiff' move is going to be used, you're usually given the heads up about it. I'm sure Danielson went over what would possibly happen and Roberts probably agreed to it for a little extra money. That's how those things work.

Actually, its been reported that very few people knew about the invasion. Almost none at ringside knew what was going to happen for the sake of making it seem more real. Unless Roberts is an oscar winning actor, the look on his face was priceless. Dude was going to cry. Like I said, he either really knew how to sell or was about to crap his pants.

 

[Tougie]

Man, when I first posted a topic on this about 12 hours ago most people figured it was a work, but i was optomistic because why would they post it there that he was fired instead of doing an on air storyline for it. But now, most sites are saying its legit because he broke PG boundaries and what not. Just ridiculous either way, WWE dropped the ball again.

ALSO: Just realized this was my post and the name was changed....not a big deal I just didnt have because he choked roberts with a tie. So yeah...

 

[Hot Soup]

I thought Justins acting was awful and looked really fake .. so what do I know.

I honestly can't decide whether this is story or legit. If its story it continues a good run if its legit I think thats a real pity as Bryan is a great wrestler. However the average WWE fan won't miss him let's be honest.

I can't totally remember but were the last round of releases on the front page?
Mickie James etc

I seem to remember it didn't appear on the front page and you had to have the direct inside news / link thingy to see it.

 

[Mr. Truth]

The only reason this is real is if there were tons of complaints by parents or one complaint by someone who is helping finance Linda's campaign. Granted, it would be idiotic to complain about someone choking someone on a show where people pretend to beat the piss out of each other every week. Otherwise, all signs point to a work. Although, I'm still trying to figure out why that while the page still exists, it's no longer linked off the news page.

 

[GRocca7x]

The McIntyre part was my point. He was 'fired' on TV but the future endeavors were not put up for him. When William Regal was fired on TV [in a loser leaves WWE match with Kennedy] for failing a wellness policy, they announced it on their website.
And look at how much force Danielson pulls the tie with. And then press your neck a tiny bit. Only a small amount of pressure on ones neck causes pain, so imagine it with all that power.

I understand if they thought he was a little rough on Roberts but pre planned or not, the camera guy was definitely milking it for all that its worth. The camera was on Danielson as he was setting up the choke and they even zoomed in on it. You would think if there was a problem some one would tell them to cut the camera shot a whole lot sooner. I know I'm just grabbing a straws here but I'm begging for this to be a work or else Danielson's release is wrong on soooo many levels!!

 

[Whos_Next56]

unfortunately i dont think its a work because vince and his pressous share holders think its ecinomically better to have a ''PG-13'' based company now. i beleive he was fired for 2 reasons. 1. even thought the choking with a necktie was classic it went way beyond vince idea of a ''PG-13'' show. 2. now that NXT is over for him bryan knows he can step into the spot light on either raw or smackdown and compete and so do we, but Vince wont take him cause theres just no work for him right now. i think a fued with mizz would be awesome but if you look at the pattern of wwe u can see that vince has never put 2 virtual unknowns (in wwe) in a fued. its always been 1 veteran of a company to hype or sell a new guy whos getting a push. mizz is still lackluster at best and bryan is a no one in wwe even though hes probably beat half wwe roster over his career lol dont get me wrong and here me out before you start web bashing me, im a huge bryan fan and an optimistic but hes not fitting the pattern of WWE or vince criteria.

 

[Tougie]

Some people just belong in the indy's where they well be treated and pushed right (Danielson, Low-ki, Desmond Wolf).

And can someone elighten me on why the name of the topic was changed?

 

[Bigdog6374]

Word is it was Mattel the maker of the new WWE action figures that complained about the choking incident stating concerns that small children may take away from it that it's ok to choke each other.

Also it's not a work it's been posted on WWE.com with the usual " We've reached agreement on the release of Bryan Danielson and we wish him luck in his future endevours " statement.