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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:13 PM
Daniel Bryan just announced his retirement https://twitter.com/wwedanielbryan/status/696757295879819264
Take that tweet however you choose. 7 hours away from the truth.
[Edited on 2-8-2016 by S Kid J E T S 48]
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:28 PM
If this is truly the end, at least he was able to have a truly memorable WM moment. Thank you, Daniel Bryan, thank you.
The WWE: Where no one wins, unless you like Cena, in which case you are a sad little fanboy who will never get laid, but we are happy to take your
money away-Moosehead Jack
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:34 PM
TMZ has it, too.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/08/daniel-bryan/
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:47 PM
Daniel Bryan on Sportscenter with Coach on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/thecoachespn/status/696766328129110016
Again, take this news however you will.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:47 PM
On Twitter, there's already people blaming Sheamus for this and telling him to commit suicide over this. For fucks sake, people!
The WWE: Where no one wins, unless you like Cena, in which case you are a sad little fanboy who will never get laid, but we are happy to take your
money away-Moosehead Jack
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act crazy by association, caught in the gravitational pull of his insanity."- Ringout from FAN Forums
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 06:59 PM
Given how the medical clearances have/haven't gone, it's going to be interesting to see how exactly he talks to his retirement / what he
is retiring from:
ever wrestling again, or wrestling in a WWE ring again.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:07 PM
quote:Originally posted by S Kid J E T S 48
Daniel Bryan on Sportscenter with Coach on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/thecoachespn/status/696766328129110016
Again, take this news however you will.
The impending part makes me hope he's got one more match before he leaves
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:23 PM
He's either cleared or not. So the one-match thing, medically, doesn't really work.
------------
On DB, I'll keep this succinct from my view: I want him to live a good life. The underlying nature of pro wrestling is that it invokes emotion
and he's our Face. It goes in and out of the ring and in this day and age of more and more after-effects of concussions, if he can't get a
good enough okay from a wide-range of doctors, I want him to try and find something that makes him happy outside of wrestling. I don't want
another one of these men and women we like to wind up down a bad road years from now because we demand/want/need one more match. So if this is it,
it's a big thanks, and do not come back. Be healthy, be happy. Like he made us.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:24 PM
Welp. I guess OO is going to stand for Obtusely Optimistic for me today because as much as it makes sense, I'm not going to believe it until we
make it through the show without some sort of swerve taking place. Hand egg won't be providing any competition tonight, and if this is a
calculated risk on WWE's part in the service of doing something interesting then brav-o to them because with all of the coverage this is
getting so far there's bound to be some extra eyeballs watching tonight.
If this is as cut and dry as it seems though, it'll be interesting to see how the crowd reacts. Seattle's a pretty rowdy one, borderline
obnoxious, and if you send Bryan out there to give a heartfelt speech announcing his retirement and just leaving it at that, you're either going
to get a deflated crowd OR one that decides to go into business for itself and shits on everything else. If anything, I wouldn't want to be
Roman Reigns tonight.
So yeah, tonight's probably going to be a heartbreaker, but I'm holding out hope that WWE still knows how to craft a compelling storyline
from time to time...Fingers crossed that this is one of those times.
Pleasebeaswervepleasebeaswervepleasebeaswerve.
Other than that: "What's La Cabra Blanca doing in The Temple, Vampiro!?"
[Edited on 2/8/2016 by CM Crunk]
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:32 PM
1) he listened to Brie/WWE doctors and is retiring for good
2) he's retiring from WWE-only to void his contract and will be back in ROH/New Japan by the end of whatever time period his non-compete clause
has in it
3) it's one hell of a work, like when Ric Flair pretended to retire just to do a woo-athon right in Vince's face in the middle of the ring
with his classic "you. will. NOT. make. me. retire. EVER!" promo
Here's hoping it's option #3 but in all likelihood it's #2. I can't believe, not matter what other crap they've pulled
in the past, that they'd force him to do something like this in order to continue his career elsewhere just so he wouldn't take even a bit
of the spotlight off of Reigns by returning to active WWE duty. It's business insanity, by every single standard of what being a smart wrestling
promotion is supposed to want to do, even for a pair of flakes like Vince & Bukkake Bukky.
[Edited on 2/8/2016 by Paddlefoot]
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:32 PM
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
OR one that decides to go into business for itself and shits on everything else. If anything, I wouldn't want to be Roman Reigns tonight.
I will do my part to make it so.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:33 PM
I'm desperately hoping Bryan comes out in a salmon-pink suit for his retirement announcement.
"I've got a lot left in the tank!"
[Edited on 2-8-2016 by Matte]
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Originally posted by Paddlefoot
Hey baby, I'm come an' blow up that bitch son of goblin then you can I fuck be with a real man.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:40 PM
Does anyone else find it weird that the news would break from his Twitter account, rather than just building up steam until tonight? I'm
probably wrong, but I'm getting a very "Mark Henry" retirement vibe here.
Nine Pound Hammer. Kinda like my genitals.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:48 PM
I think it's most likely true, but the one shining hope is that Marshawn Lynch announced his retirement from his Twitter account during the
Super Bowl yesterday. Maybe Vince caught wind of that and decided to use it to swerve the fans by having Bryan do the same thing.
But I think that's holding out a lot of hope. I think it's probably true.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:49 PM
quote:Originally posted by williamssl
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
OR one that decides to go into business for itself and shits on everything else. If anything, I wouldn't want to be Roman Reigns tonight.
I will do my part to make it so.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:49 PM
It makes sense of WWE to try and get a Post-Superbowl ratings jump for this, seeing as lapsed viewers may tune in to see Bryan leave.
Or it could be a play by Bryan as well, to re-iterate the fact that he wants out so he can wrestle for someone else.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 07:56 PM
quote:Originally posted by CM Crunk
If this is as cut and dry as it seems though, it'll be interesting to see how the crowd reacts. Seattle's a pretty rowdy one, borderline
obnoxious, and if you send Bryan out there to give a heartfelt speech announcing his retirement and just leaving it at that, you're either going
to get a deflated crowd OR one that decides to go into business for itself and shits on everything else. If anything, I wouldn't want to be
Roman Reigns tonight.
Excuse me for my candor here - this is directed at the thought, not the person..., But this is such a weird excuse for adults to act like children,
no? It's not like WWE is doing some allegedly shady things that sent CM Punk into quitting. It's them protecting their wrestler (and
themselves, but that makes them like every other business ever; and we can pretend like every other company who will "let" Daniel Bryan wrestle
isn't doing it for themselves either). WWE has a million injuries, a Wrestlemania on the horizon, and a ton of other issues - if this is legit,
do you think that they wouldn't do everything they can to add this guy back to their card? Hell, even if you wants side on the most negative end
- there's a ton of money for WWE in the exchange of keeping him. They have him under contract and are taking their legitimate doctor's
opinion on the matter. And even if they do eventually let him wrestle elsewhere, *that* will be them doing Bryan right, more than them holding him
back, even if it's somehow seen in a different way by fans.
And of course, if he came to this decision on his own, and decided to make an announcement before his home crowd (a decent explanation for the rush
here), then fans are being petulant. If this is to be expected by crowds, then fine, but we regularly champion fans and crowds that actually like
wrestling, no? The 40 guys left probably aren't too happy about him retiring either. Seems like a really petty reason to take our sadness out on
them just because literally any excise to do so exists.
ETA: Observer radio is reporting that it's going to be the last segment of the show tonight, so that might alleviate the above concern. Figure
the night will be loaded with Daniel Bryan chants though, as they should.
Also to add - they're treating this as if it's completely legit. Said he went for a new test and they believe it must have turned up bad
and led to this sudden decision. This is really heading in the direction I hoped it wouldn't.
[Edited on 2-8-2016 by S Kid J E T S 48]
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 08:39 PM
Do you guys honestly think that this company has the fucking balls to work the mainstream media like this? Puh-leaze. It's 2016. Maybe back
in 1999 they would have, but not a chance anymore. He'll give his retirement speech, and that'll be that.
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 08:50 PM
Remember tumours prior to the Rumble that Bryan was getting more tests? Remember excitement for a possible return? Well apparently the results of
those tests were not good, and more tests were planned.
Considering everything, I think it's time to admit he is not coming back.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 08:54 PM
Up until this point, Daniel Bryan's medical clearance has been a tale of two "doctors":
Doctor(s) 1 is the ones not associated with WWE who have given him a clean bill of health (based on everything we know to this point)
Doctor 2 is the WWE doctors who have not.
Today's announcement, and how it gets talked to tonight, boils down to one of X things:
1) Bryan has changed his POV and put enough weight on what Doctor 2 has been saying that it's tipped him that way and he will not be wrestling
anymore, anywhere
2) Bryan is still at the seeming impasse he's been at to date and/or WWE has firmly come out and said "no matter what you'll never
wrestle in our ring again" that he's announcing that he's done from WWE wrestling
3) There is new news (as Skids' edit suggests) i.e. a new prognosis or a shift in Doctors 1 that has tipped the scale in favor of retirement
from all things in-ring.
#1 seems incredibly doubtful.
#3 would make the announcement, as unfortunate as it is, make sense
#2 is what Bryan fans are and should be legitimately worried about based on everything that's been said to date. It's all been an
impasse, and outside of new information, and doubting #1, then is this WWE forcing their hand.
We can unpack the hell out of that if we choose to. Should they be? Who are we as casual fans to say what a corporation who bears all of the
downside should something happen be getting up in arms over anything health related? Not going there.
All I'm saying is that I as a Bryan fan (and I'm sure I'm not alone) had #2 as my initial reaction to this which if true and as a
Bryan fan I would be inclined to have a more vocal immediate negative reaction.
That's why I said earlier re: it's going to be interesting to see what is actually said when this all goes down.
If it is new information, as unfortunate as that may be, it is the easier pill to swallow, both by Bryan and by his (very vocal) fans.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 09:16 PM
quote:Originally posted by bigfatgoalie
Remember tumours prior to the Rumble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTO8_KNcuo
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 10:00 PM
quote:Originally posted by Columbo
Danielson, I think hit a bad trifecta; too ugly, too short, lacking charisma to ever be anything other than a really gifted jobber(which is sad)....I
hope I'm wrong.
This is my first impression of Daniel Bryan from Feb 9th 2010 in the FCW* thread. Its hard to believe that was almost 6 years to the day ago.. Somehow
that ugly short charisma free fella made me (re)fall in love with wrestling, and if this is the end of the road I just gotta thank him for one hell of
a journey.
*RIP Lucky
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posted on 2-8-2016 at 10:39 PM
quote:Originally posted by S Kid J E T S 48
ETA: Observer radio is reporting that it's going to be the last segment of the show tonight, so that might alleviate the above concern. Figure
the night will be loaded with Daniel Bryan chants though, as they should.
Also to add - they're treating this as if it's completely legit. Said he went for a new test and they believe it must have turned up bad
and led to this sudden decision. This is really heading in the direction I hoped it wouldn't.
At the very least we know the crowd won't be sitting on their hands tonight. And they don't necessarily deserve what I expect is coming,
but tonight's gonna be tough for StepHHH to get a word in edgewise. Especially if Bryan's segment is coming on last? The DAN-YIL BRY-YAN
chants alone are going to merit HO. LEE. SHIT. chants of their own, and not at all for the right reasons. Mayhaps be a bit clearer with your
intentions with a beloved wrestler well before shit goes nuclear, huh Vince and Buckykake?
And my two cents on Bryan*:
Because he's gonna throw it right back in StepHHH's stupid faces and then Brock's gonna come out and they're gonna
have a match at WM and everything will be fine, just fine, right? RIGHT?!?!?
