Topic: Daniel Bryan

October 8, 2012

Team Hell No! has crashed hard into the main event on the strength of  top-notch chemisty and quality matches that subvert the very essence of what tag team contests are supposed to be. Theirs is the path of most resistance, but if they can stay the course, it should be a road worth taking. Especially if the spoiled main event cherry on top of  No Way Out 2007's poop-and-worm sundae is any indication. 

April 18, 2012

The WWE owed its crazy late-90s popularity boom to a simple idea: The whole concept of good guys and bad guys was obsolete, and crowds wanted to cheer assholes. After that cultural wave inevitably ended, the WWE tried to go family-friendly. But now, fans are cheering heels and booing the good guys, and the company is trying to play both sides of the fence. 

December 7, 2011

For most of the past decade, Daniel Bryan was, by general nerd consensus, the single best independent wrestler in America. But the WWE has built itself on chiseled, charismatic figures, and Danielson isn't that. Given WWE's lack of tolerance toward wrestler weed-smoking and Danielson's ridiculous physical abilities, I have to assume that he's not actually high all the time, or ever. But he sure does seem like it. He's a vegan because he's got some weird health issues. He sings backup on a song from the new Kimya Dawson album. He's a strange guy.