WWE Royal Rumble 2020: 3 reasons why Bray Wyatt must shine
3. Daniel Bryan needs a crisis
WWE fans were ecstatic to see Daniel Bryan back as “The American Dragon” when he showed up at the TLC Pay Per View. Weeks earlier, we saw The Fiend drag Bryan to the depths of hell (because we all know “The Demon Kane” lives under WWE rings all over the world) and shave his hair off, ushering in a return to his previous form. (In the same way that Seth Rollins is now a sniveling heel hiding behind his bodyguards and The Miz is a grown child tagging with John Morrison.)
The good feelings shouldn’t last for Bryan. There’s no point to having Bryan as the happy-go-lucky, good-at-wrestling American Dragon with no issues. There needs to be a crisis of identity after this abrupt character change or some sort of crisis born out of this.
As a true underdog babyface, Bryan needs to take some tough losses in big matches, go through a crisis, find his momentum, and get the crowd one-thousand percent behind him to the point where they are practically willing him to a massive title win over an equally formidable heel.
It’s a tried-and-true formula they’ve done with Bryan multiple times, as well as other great babyfaces in WWE. Bryan winning the Universal Title so quickly into his (re)run as the American Dragon would mean absolutely nothing. People would even turn on the result, since they’d be expecting Wyatt to win to get more momentum for a redemption match at WrestleMania.
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Bryan will have his time in the sun as the American Dragon soon enough. But let’s wait six months to a year for that. This match is as much about how Wyatt wins as it is about how Bryan loses. We could look back at this match a year from now as an important turning point for both men in their stories, so hopefully Wyatt delivers his end of the bargain. Because we know Bryan will deliver on his.