Originally Posted by vanboxmeer

After that beating, Bryan might as well retire. He was SO inferior to Del Rio in that match, that it was implied that if Ricardo got any degree of training from Del Rio, he'd beat Bryan fairly quickly as well. Hell, JBL/Josh even inferred that there was a lot of talent in front of him during the match: in Del Rio and Ricardo. And that Bryan was ruined by AJ and was being carried by Kane as his keychain. Then he got tapped out and never referenced to again like a total non-entity.