['Road Dogg' Jesse James]

This thread is so great and it shows just how over Bryan is.

Everyone is posting paragraph answers with actual arguments for why they (and others) like Daniel Bryan.

Compare that to the Romans Reigns/Nikki Bella fans that just post gifs and say dumb shit about 'haters.'

 

[LeaderOfM.D.R.S.]

1. YES chant
2. He looks like a fan
3. His beard
4. He's goofy
5. He's extremely agile
6. He is THE underdog
7. His theme song

When you combine all of that together especially the part about him being a underdog with him constantly being pushed down only to rise above is why he's so over. I think people are over-complicating it, it's not some mythical reason why.

Except for the fact that almost none of those reasons are why he's popular.

No those reasons are exactly why he is popular. Im looking at it from the casual perspective not the smark tinted glasses that believe his wrestling skills from ROH is why.

 

['Road Dogg' Jesse James]

No those reasons are exactly why he is popular. Im looking at it from the casual perspective not the smark tinted glasses that believe his wrestling skills from ROH is why.

Nah.

 

[Goku]

because of his feud with roman reigns. roman reigns got him over.

 

[The Coolest]

The YES chants.

If you take away the YES chants then he would have never been nearly this over. If you take away the ability from here on out for the audience to do YES chants, then he'd still be over, but not as over as he is now.

He's over, and the chant makes him super over.

Bryan fans will say otherwise and do the old "so was Stone Cold over because of the What chant?" crap.

 

[samizayn]

DISCLAIMER: This post contains words of truth which Daniel Bryan fans may find upsetting. If you are a Daniel Bryan fan you are not invited to read the remainder of post. Thank you.

He's a perennial loser, which a lot of wrestling fans can relate to. Go to a WWE event, or go to any bar where a wrestling event is being shown that people are interested in and look at how many of them you think are normal people or are successful in their lives, I guarantee it'll be a minority.

I guarantee the opposite. How many live shows have you been to, exactly? I have no idea why some fans insist on perpetuating the self-hating notion that wrestling fans are somehow ugly freaks banished from wider society. Wrestling fans are your peers. They're the people your sons and daughters go to school with. They might be the people you go to school with. They're your colleagues and bosses and acquaintances and people you see on the street every day, and I don't know what bitterness makes you want to believe that they're these abnormal weirdos when actually observing them (using your eyes, not your bias) in person or even on TV will show you that's not the case.

Not that I expect you to change your mind, I just laugh at you labelling your post "truth" when it's obviously far from it

 

[Arkham258]

What's funny to me about people who say it's just the yes chant that is over is that other people who use it don't elicit the same MASSIVE response that we've seen Bryan get with it. Aside from Bryan, the person who used to get the biggest reaction with the yes chant was AJ, and again, that was because SHE was over.

It's also more than a chant that gets people hijacking shows and booing the hell out of Royal Rumbles. That's cause people love the GUY not the chant.

It's such a dumb argument, and any time we bring up evidence to counter it, you notice the person who says it's all about the chant has no come back.

 

[sexton_hardcastle]

Because he's a likable dude who loves wrestling and does everything in his power to entertain the fans.

He's like an in shape Mick Foley with more teeth

He just needs to stick a sock on his hand and he'll be set

 

[JamesK]

The Daniel Bryan chants are over

 

[Chrome]

The Daniel Bryan chants are over

Exactly, anybody would be just as over if the crowd chanted Daniel Bryan with them.

 

[Zac512]

His Yes chant is the biggest reason imo.

 

[SHIVV-EAUX-EMME-GEEE]

A better question is why do his detractors try to pretend he isnt so over?

 

[Zac512]

A better question is why do his detractors try to pretend he isnt so over?

Being over doesnt necessarily mean that someone should main event every Wrestlemania and every single PPV.

Even Austin, Hogan, Rock, HBK, Cena, and Taker wrestled in the midcard sometimes.

If he wins the IC match at WM, Bryan will join rare company as one of the few who have won every title in the company. A lot of wrestlers would love to be mistreated like that.

 

[NoGimmicksNeeded]

A better question is why do his detractors try to pretend he isnt so over?

Yup, ignore it or try and qualify it to make it less of an achievement. It's strange really.

It's also genuinely laughable that people think the yes chant is the main reason, or the biggest part of, why he's over. Of course it helps with his reactions, but does anyone genuinely believe that the WWE fanbase (not just smarks) literally FORCED them to give him one of the best ever WM moments because they like the chant?

 

[DarkLady]

Being over doesnt necessarily mean that someone should main event every Wrestlemania and every single PPV.

Even Austin, Hogan, Rock, HBK, Cena, and Taker wrestled in the midcard sometimes.

If he wins the IC match at WM, Bryan will join rare company as one of the few who have won every title in the company. A lot of wrestlers would love to be mistreated like that.

Not when they were returning from career threatening injury, just before the rumble, more over than ever, with a perfect opponent like Brock waiting as the champ.

 

[The True Believer]

Being over doesnt necessarily mean that someone should main event every Wrestlemania and every single PPV.

Even Austin, Hogan, Rock, HBK, Cena, and Taker wrestled in the midcard sometimes.

If he wins the IC match at WM, Bryan will join rare company as one of the few who have won every title in the company. A lot of wrestlers would love to be mistreated like that.

Back when the midcard actually mattered. If instead of the ME, let's say Bryan and Ziggler had good build-up before they faced each other at WM, then I guarantee you that a lot of people, including his fans, wouldn't have an issue with it. Instead, he's thrown into the second most unimportant booked match on the card(not counting the Divas BTW)like he was some disposable midcarder like Ryback.

 

[Zac512]

Not when they were returning from career threatening injury, just before the rumble, more over than ever, with a perfect opponent like Brock waiting as the champ.

Only Austin had an injury as serious and quality of life threatening as Bryan did. Bryan is great but he's not on Austin's level.

Bryan is not over enough to carry the company on his own. They need to create more stars.

 

[DarkLady]

Only Austin had an injury as serious and quality of life threatening as Bryan did. Bryan is great but he's not on Austin's level.

Bryan is not over enough to carry the company on his own. They need to create more stars.

They're doing a fine job creating a star out of Reigns, aren't they? Bryan was plenty over and he wasn't the only one. They could've had multiple stars by now but they keep extinguishing them to try and make Reigns seems brighter.

 

[97 HBK]

They're doing a fine job creating a star out of Reigns, aren't they? Bryan was plenty over and he wasn't the only one. They could've had multiple stars by now but they keep extinguishing them to try and make Reigns seems brighter.

Great point, tbh. WWE Creative is like the friend that is only capable of only having one friend at a time, and gets insanely jealous when their friend makes another friend. They're not interested in having two big stars at a time (not since Austin and Rock), but only one at a time. Like Cena in his heyday, and now Reigns.

 

[Zac512]

They're doing a fine job creating a star out of Reigns, aren't they? Bryan was plenty over and he wasn't the only one. They could've had multiple stars by now but they keep extinguishing them to try and make Reigns seems brighter.

Well they are trying.

Who did they "extinguish" for Reigns?

Bryan will certainly main event more PPVs in the future btw.