After winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 30, Daniel Bryan was expected to have a title reign which lasted to SummerSlam before he would eventually be stopped by ‘The Conqueror’ Brock Lesnar, who was hot off the heels from ending the Undertaker’s WrestleMania undefeated streak.
But that match never happened as injury cruelly robbed Bryan of not only the match that he craved, but a fairly decent championship reign, certainly by today’s standards.
But now is the time to put all that right.
Only this time with the roles reversed, with Lesnar as the unstoppable champion and Bryan the heroic challenger.
After winning the Royal Rumble, he has the chance to regain the title he was never defeated for and we can have a bout to see who the undisputed champion is.
The story writes itself.
Bryan wants his championship back, but he has to beat Lesnar to get it. The David Vs Goliath story is one of the oldest ever used in pro-wrestling and it is also one of the most effective, and the fans unwavering support for Bryan can make this a memorable encounter.
The match can be built up perfectly by Paul Heyman who can talk down to Bryan and really question whether he can defeat the ‘reigning, defending, WWE World Heavyweight Champion’ with his recent injury problems doubled with Brock’s dominance. He can really tap into the element of Bryan being in serious danger if he competes at WrestleMania.
In terms of match quality, it should deliver.
Bryan has fantastic chemistry with virtually everybody on the roster, while Lesnar can also work effectively with smaller wrestlers, look at his match with CM Punk from SummerSlam 2013, or go way back to 2002 and his excellent matches with Rob Van Dam and Edge.
Lesnar is known as a brutal mat-wrestler with unmitigated strength, while Bryan has vicious strikes from his legs and is a submission specialist. The brutality and hard-hitting match style should be compelling and something you don’t get very often on WWE television.
WWE missed out on the opportunity to book the match at SummerSlam due to Bryan’s uncertain future. But now, with everything in place, they would be foolish to not capitalise on Bryan’s popularity as the returning babyface and reclaim his crown on the grandest stage of them all.
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