WWE dropped the ball on Daniel Bryan’s big reveal

WWE had a massive swing and a miss with Daniel Bryan and Rowan’s reveal of Roman Reigns’ alleged attacker on SmackDown Live

Seriously, the best WWE could do was find a guy who looks like Rowan.

I would like to think that I could just end the article there, since that really says it all in of itself, but the sheer scale of anger and disappointment I feel just thinking about that segment again bears explaining.

There were so many better directions WWE could have gone with that reveal. It’s actually hard to concisely list off all of the clearly superior options WWE had at their disposal that they just blatantly ignored.

Imagine if that was some sort of up-and-coming star, or someone who we haven’t really seen on WWE TV in awhile. That could’ve been Luke Harper tied to that chair, leading us down the path of a wild Wyatt Family reunion storyline.

It could have been a way to introduce someone woefully underutilized like Eric Young, EC3, or Robert Roode into the story. They could either have been in league with Bryan and Rowan, or even have been coerced into admitting they did it because they feared what the deranged former tag champs would do to them.

Heck, they could have pulled that bootleg Bed Bath & Beyond sheet off to reveal Shelton Benjamin doing that creepy thing with his eyes. That would have at least been something memorable.

Instead, one of the major segments in a storyline about a literal attempted murder was played up like a comedy bit.

I just want to know where we go from here. Is WWE seriously going to make Roman Reigns question whether or not Daniel Bryan and Rowan really attacked him still? I mean, if people were complaining about Seth Rollins looking stupid against Brock Lesnar last month, I don’t know what the reaction would be to that.

If Reigns simply goes after Rowan and Bryan full force though, that really isn’t too much better in the grand scheme of things.

That would mean WWE just basically killed the entire mystery element of the storyline off with Bryan’s reveal, meaning the literal turning point of one of the most talked about angles in the company will have been that lame of a segment.

Realistically speaking, I suppose there’s probably some way WWE will land in-between those options. Buddy Murphy could get back involved somehow by some reveal of a segment of him talking to Mirror, Mirror Rowan before one of the attacks.

It would just feel like such a letdown, like there was so much more for WWE to work with that they just wasted away in favor of killing time. I mean in light of the reaction Murphy got after beating Bryan on SmackDown, it’s going to be incredibly hard to envision him being the mastermind attacker.

That brings us back to square one, where a major part of a storyline that was bringing some legitimately impressive segments out of both Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan was wasted for basically nothing.

I guess all that’s left is to hope WWE has something up their sleeves that we can’t see yet, because this is looking like it could be a monumental failure otherwise.