Daniel Bryan has kind of an interesting thing going – some of the things he says are every bit as honest and against the grain as anything CM Punk every said while he was with WWE, but because they’re coming out of the mouth of harmless ol’ DB, nobody seems to get upset. For instance, Daniel Bryan recently sat down for an interview with Digital Spy and said some stuff that would have got Cesaro buried with a vengeance, but I have a feeling Bryan will be Yes-ing all over Raw like nothing happened.
When asked why the fans like him more than John Cena and Roman Reigns, Bryan first actually admitted that, to some extent, it’s just the Yes! chant that’s over…
“Part of the secret is people love saying ‘Yes!’. Even if people don’t like me, they have fun throwing their fingers in the air saying ‘Yes!’ So that is part of the secret.”
The other reason the fans like Bryan more than Roman Reigns or Cena? Those guys had it easy…
“John Cena and Roman Reigns – not that they’ve had an easy road to the top in WWE, John Cena was nearly fired before he became WWE Champion for the first time – but they probably had a much easier path than I did.
They are more of the prototypical WWE Superstars than I am, so when I came in I don’t think any of the top WWE people looked at me as, ‘Oh this is somebody who we look at as being a future main eventer for WrestleMania’ or even a future WWE Champion, or even a future Intercontinental Champion! Somebody like Roman Reigns or John Cena – people look at them and they think, ‘Oh, this guy could be The Guy, let’s see what happens’, and that was never me.”
Bryan also talked about CM Punk’s claim that him leaving was what propelled Bryan to the main event at Wrestlemania 30. Surprisingly, he totally agreed with the idea…
“Two major things happened that caused me to be in the spot I was at last year’s Wrestlemania: the fans rejected Batista as being the big returning hero that WWE wanted him to be and CM Punk left. These are two great big gaping holes that now have to be filled at WrestleMania. If you main event WrestleMania with just Batista and Randy Orton, the WrestleMania crowd is not going to like that. Then CM Punk was supposed to wrestle Triple H, and now you have this opening for Triple H.
So those were the two major things that caused me to be in the spot that I was for WrestleMania and neither of them had anything to do with me per se! I didn’t go out there and do anything, the fans took control of the one thing and then Punk left and that took control of the other thing, and it’s like, ‘Well, what do we do for these two problems? Ah, well – there’s Daniel Bryan!’ So yeah that’s what happened, Punk was very accurate in what he said.”
So, as long as we’re being honest, who do you really want to fight at this year’s Wrestlemania, Bryan?
“Yeah I sure do, my dream scenario [would be] I wrestle Brock Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania. That, to me, would be every bit as gripping as last year’s WrestleMania was.”
I’d say it’s not happening, but Bryan seems to have a way of making things that aren’t happening, happen.
via Digital Spy
