Daniel Bryan is going to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 30. It's what's best for business and makes all kinds of sense. Although going by that logic it probably won't happen because, well, it's the logical thing to do. Now my catchy title has suckered you I'll give you my thoughts on last night's PPV before I eventually get to the point of why I think Bryan's time will come at Wrestlemania.
I didn't really think Elimination Chamber was a good enough show for a number of reasons. Honestly I thought most of the card was filler that we didn't need to see but in saying that I understand why we did see them. Titus O'Neal was a match that nobody cared about and nobody will care about going forward - it should have been a squash match to be honest. If you're going to try and create a new 'monster' type heel you need to give him the impressive, dominant win and we didn't really see that last night. Titus was caused a few problems by Darren Young before he managed to get the win and I didn't like that - Darren Young isn't a star and the only thing that might provide him with a bit of notoriety is the fact that in real-life he's gay.
AJ Lee vs the annoying one from Total Divas was a complete clusterfuck - the only time I've enjoyed AJ's work was when she cut a 'shoot' promo berating the entire cast of Total Divas, aside from that I don't think she's as great as she's lauded online. Nor is Natalya for that matter, they're just the best of a bad bunch. Whilst I'm on that subject I'm completely against Women's Wrestling in the WWE as a whole because the majority of the time it isn't wrestling and if we're completely honest with ourselves, does anyone really give a fuck who's holding the 'Divas' Championship? I know I don't. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I dislike Women's Wrestling as a whole, I just think since the days of Lita, Trish, Mickie James and even Beth Pheonix the standard has gone so far downhill it'd be damn near impossible to bring back. These days the divas get literally no reaction and I cringe at the screen every time they're in the ring and I have to suffer through watching former Models with 2 months worth of training barely get through the most basic of maneuvers, screaming like teenage girls all the while. Those that actually want to compete would be better off literally anywhere else.
Big E vs Swagger had one show worth of build, not enough to warrant anyone being invested in that match. Batista vs Del Rio was what it was - nobody cared about that match either and for the record Batista looked awful during the contest, he looked gassed and sloppy yet this is the man in the main event of the biggest show of the year. MOTN went too, as expected, The Shield vs The Wyatt Family who put on a classic. My one fault with that match though was that they didn't even tease the inevitable split of The Shield. I understand that this'll likely happen tonight on RAW but I personally felt you should give those that actually bought the PPV something exclusive to the show rather than wait until the next night.
The Chamber match itself was nothing short of the most easily predictable match I think there ever has been. I thought the main event was good, not great. The Wyatt's cost Cena the match as expected then about 5 minutes later they recycled the same angle with Kane screwing Daniel Bryan. Am I the only one who thought that was an example of lazy booking? They literally ran the same angle within 5 minutes of each other only with different assailants/victims. The fact they couldn't come up with something, anything else to keep it fresh astounds me. Again I don't think anyone could be surprised to see Randy Orton retain the title (the rage in the Live Chat confused me, you all knew it was going to happen) and I'm not actually bitter about Orton winning because it made perfect sense and I for one feel it'd be a bigger moment if Bryan finally won the gold at Wrestlemania as opposed to last night on an average card.
That begins to move me onto my point (if you're still with me, you have my thanks). The way Michael Cole sold the finale - the way he damn near lost his voice talking about the wave of injustice that has been plaguing Daniel Bryan since Summerslam, the way the camera cut to numerous disappointed faces in the crowd...it all seemed to hint that Bryan will be in that Title match at Wrestlemania. The WWE isn't stupid enough to stick with an Orton/Batista singles match to close the show (actually they 100% are stupid enough to do that but for the purpose of this rant they're not). I have complete faith that the WWE higher-ups are well aware that if they run Randy Orton vs Batista it'll get complete shat on from start to finish and with the WWE Network crowd all tuning in for 'Mania they don't want the biggest show of the year to end the same way Royal Rumble did.
Daniel Bryan fought Kane last Monday on RAW, he's not going to face him again at Wrestlemania. I think what could happen is he'll have to fight Kane one more time and if he wins he'll get into the WWE Title match at Wrestlemania where I firmly believe he'll win. A Bryan/Orton/Batista triple threat is good for business, it'll give the fans someone to root for, stop them from completely shitting all over the main event, provides a way of giving fans what they want and allows a finish in which golden boy Batista doesn't have to take the pinfall. The people have spoken, they've been speaking for years now and the WWE can't ignore them forever. Wrestlemania 30 is the time to pull the trigger and finally give the audience what it's been craving, put the belt on the man the people chose.
Of course if they go the other route and have Bryan face Triple H, insert Lesnar into the title match and the crowd can root for him. I don't know what's going to happen, hopefully tonight's RAW will provide us with a little more clarity. Daniel Bryan should win the World Title though and I firmly believe that's what's going to happen. I wouldn't be too down heartened if it didn't happen though because I'd actually really look forward to watching Batista vs Orton get shat all over. I'm aware this a long post and some of you don't enjoy reading these little rant essays but for those of you that did take the time to read this, I say thank you! :)