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But upon finally watching the conclusion of last week\u2019s RAW, I\u2019m going to say that the steam has just been released out of the Daniel Bryan\/Randy Orton\/Best for Business storyline.\u00a0 When Orton confronted Brie Bella in the back was one thing, but as soon as Brie Bella ran out to ringside to helplessly plead with Orton and then watch him beat down on Daniel Bryan, the entire storyline to me, went from one that was a test to see if Bryan Danielson the performer, could hold the WWE\u2019s torch in a time of need, to one that is now being used to conveniently hype the continuation of\u00a0Total Divas.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I really hope I\u2019m wrong about it, because as a fan, the rise of Daniel Bryan is the best thing that has happened to the WWE in quite some time.\u00a0 This is the first year in numerous years where wrestling has managed to keep a hold of my attention on weekly basis throughout an entire baseball season, and I\u2019m making conscious efforts to keep up with weekly shows, even if I am DVR-skipping most of the actual action, just to see where the storylines are going.\u00a0 Because that\u2019s what\u2019s the best thing about wrestling now \u2013 the interesting storylines.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a classic tale of scrappy, fan-favorite underdog versus the corporate machine that doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s right for a top position, because of his size, appearance and persona.\u00a0 Helmed by Triple H, who has really been emerging as a really solid character that\u2019s not only just part-Vince McMahon, but just about every negative corporate stereotype there could be.\u00a0 \u00a0Out of the storylines, fans have seen Daniel Bryan rise to the occasion twice on pay-per-view and competently carry two marginal, less-talented wrestlers to halfway decent matches.\u00a0 The only thing preventing Bryan from holding the strap at this very moment is the fact that the WWE knows it can drag this storyline out further right now and the fans will continue to pour money into wanting to see their hero ultimately triumph.<\/span><\/p>\n The introduction of Brie Bella into the storylines is a terrible idea, in my opinion.\u00a0 I understand what this does to the storylines and how it creates a \u201cgetting too personal\u201d angle, variables and several alternate directions for the next pay-per-view, but ultimately in the end, it just feels like a cheap advertisement for the next half-season of Total Divas.<\/span><\/p>\n I like Brie Bella, after all I think she\u2019s the superior of the \u201ctwins\u201d and ultimately she\u2019ll do whatever the creative team tells her to do, but I still think that this is not a smart move by the WWE.\u00a0 And as gay as it sounds, I have watched all of the aired episodes of Total Divas, because I\u2019m a wrestling fan, and I love how it gives a glimpse of the workings of the machine, as well as those fascinating moments of backstage candor among performers, both of the divas as well as the men.\u00a0 But I felt that the strength of the show was the fact that they didn\u2019t let it directly impact any of the weekly programming, thus keeping the wrestling shows the wrestling shows, and the reality television, reality television, aside from feuds and storylines involving, exclusively WWE Divas.<\/span><\/p>\n But putting Brie into the mix now crosses the line of involving Total Divas into the main event picture, and more so, that the WWE is so willing to divulge personal information on live television.\u00a0 Hardcore insiders and anyone who watched Total Divas already know that John Cena is in a relationship with Nikki Bella, Jimmy Uso is engaged to Naomi, Tyson Kidd is now married to Natalya, and that even Randy Orton is robbing the cradle, dating the new chick, Jojo.\u00a0 Regardless, all of these relationships are kept hush-hush on live television, while Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella\u2019s relationship and recent engagement is being exploited to try and make a storyline personal.<\/span><\/p>\n To me, after watching Brie attempting to act all mortified at the actions of Orton and concerned for the well-being of her new fianc\u00e9e, all I could think about how much the choice of this direction takes a tremendous amount of wind out of the sails of the storyline.\u00a0 Week after week for months, fans have seen Daniel Bryan, when it was time for him to take a beating, take massive beatings, and be flat on his back, dead to the world, until he showed up either later in the show or on the next Smackdown or next Raw, and get some retribution, to which the crowd would go apeshit and chant \u201cYES! YES! YES!\u201d\u00a0 Classic exchanging of momentum, moments of triumph, moments of failure, but all the shoulders of Daniel Bryan, himself.<\/span><\/p>\n Throwing Brie into the mix now means there\u2019s a very good chance that she\u2019s going to be present in the impending Orton\/Bryan match, which means she\u2019ll be involved one way or the other.\u00a0 It would be best if Brie didn\u2019t get involved at all, but it\u2019s hard to say someone coming down to ringside doesn\u2019t get involved, but even better would be if the WWE forgets this ever happened Brie doesn\u2019t show up at all in the main event.\u00a0 So here\u2019s what I see happening \u2013 either Orton threatens her in an attempt to trap Bryan, causing Bryan to lose, causing Bryan to have reason to resent his fianc\u00e9e, or Brie takes a bump but Bryan prioritizes winning the WWE title over her well-being, heading down the road of the abusive spouse trope.\u00a0 Whichever of these outcomes happens, I certainly don\u2019t think it\u2019s\u00a0best for business<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But upon finally watching the conclusion of last week\u2019s RAW, I\u2019m going to say that the steam has just been released out of the Daniel Bryan\/Randy Orton\/Best for Business storyline.\u00a0 When Orton confronted Brie Bella in the back was one thing, but as soon as Brie Bella ran out to ringside to helplessly plead with … Continue reading I hope I\u2019m wrong about this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15,54,55],"class_list":["post-37624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37626,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624\/revisions\/37626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}