Daniel Bryan Thread

Two things on that

1) McDevitt rarely loses.
2) By the time it actually got to court, you're looking at 18 months or two years and well into 6 figures in legal fees. Eddie Alvarez took Bellator to court to get out of his deal and gave up after a year, for example.His deal is up in the summer 2018. Strikes me as a remarkably stupid move to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting WWE in court in the hopes you might get released six months early.
3) As Meltzer has stated, he has not got a leg to stand on. So long as they are sending him his cheque, they can just sit him home for 2.5 years. Simple as that. It's their contractual right. He's an independent contractor and they can choose to book him or not book him.

There again, if he does take them to court, at least we know definitively that he is brain damaged.

Monokne wrote: »

Two things on that

1) McDevitt rarely loses.
2) By the time it actually got to court, you're looking at 18 months or two years and well into 6 figures in legal fees. Eddie Alvarez took Bellator to court to get out of his deal and gave up after a year, for example.His deal is up in the summer 2018. Strikes me as a remarkably stupid move to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting WWE in court in the hopes you might get released six months early.
3) As Meltzer has stated, he has not got a leg to stand on. So long as they are sending him his cheque, they can just sit him home for 2.5 years. Simple as that. It's their contractual right. He's an independent contractor and they can choose to book him or not book him.

There again, if he does take them to court, at least we know definitively that he is brain damaged.

American employment law is truly disgusting and you are right, what my nightmare scenario is, is that they automatically renew his contract like they did with Rey, the legality of which I still don't fully understand.

Hope Punk doing what he did will actually have led to some change in how talent can escape but knowing our luck, it'll probably just make the contracts a lot more water-tight.

End of the day, I want to see Bryan Danielson wrestling again.

I'd like to see him remain healthy as well, I'm just throwing out what different scenarios could be. Really I don't think any of us could claim we were short changed by the guy with the body of work he's left behind him should he never wrestle another match in his life. Mick Foley and Chris Benoit gave their bodies for the business but nothing is ever worth that.

I don't agree there. WWE house show matches are not particularly hard on the body, especially if you're not in the main events. Guys are encouraged to take it easy and do the same basic match every night. What the top guys go through over the three weeks of the G1 in New Japan is absolutely brutal, and even the average NJPW tour will be more taxing on the body than three weeks in WWE. And I mean in Bryans case, he did most of the damage to his brain on the indies and in ROH. His matches with Nigel McGuinness were brutal and ended up costing Nigel his career. Remember those spots where they'd just headbutt each other, full on? ****ing stupidity.

There's a good argument that the fact WWE guys have to go 4 days a week most weeks means they are less inclined to go all in. Plus WWE protects guys from themselves. They don't allow the guys do dangerous piledrivers or pretty much any more that involves significant axial load, and they try and limit anything that's going to put guys at significant risk of concussion.

I will caveat though that travelling so much lessens the chance for recovery if you are hurt.

I read he was cleared by doctors in UCLA recently. That means nothing though as he could be cleared by the pope himself but if he isn't cleared by the head wwe doctor he's not going to be in a wwe ring until he does.

Stereomaniac wrote: »

They might as well start using him at the Royal Rumble every year to taunt the audience. It would be some laugh if he came out to endorse Roman Reigns á la Dwayne Johnson last year.

The fans would probably burn the place down if Reigns beasted his way through everyone to win the Rumble and had Bryan come out to endorse him haha

thebostoncrab wrote: »

He talked about in his book how much he hated teaching wrestling to people, he didn't think he was very good at it and seemed to get bored by it easily.

True, he said on Total Divas last week that he does not like his judge role on Tough Enough.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He is on Raw tonight, some speculating it is to announce retirement

He just tweeted that he is on Raw tonight to announce his retirement.

He better go Mark Henry on this.

Huge DB fan but noting worth putting your life on the line. If it's real all the best to him and we have plenty of great matches and moments to remember him by.

I can't imagine it isn't real. I think the Twitter announcement is to help try kill the is it real/is it not vibe that might have gone on if he had just announced it during the show out of nowhere.

This way the news probably reaches the majority of people that wouldn't look up forums, follow the likes of Meltzer etc.

Yeah the timing is very weird alright, but maybe it's the perfect time if you look at it another way. This time of year makes us think every week, is he gonna make a surprise return and set up a big match at Mania? That puts that to bed at least, and gives closure to the fans.

I can't help but thinking this won't help Roman's crowd reaction at all though, because we all know he's the guy now, and he won't be overshadowed by anyone with this news.

Very sad day for me and all the pro wrestling fans of the world