Take this as just a rumor for now but an insider for Keith Bloom’s Blog of Doom website is reporting that WWE is set to release Daniel Bryan next week. Below is an email that Bloom’s informant sent to him containing his claims:
Scott,
Can’t believe I’m doing this – I’m writing from a throwaway account but please keep my details private anyway. Although feel free to paste the whole e-mail or delete it. Sorry just a bit frazzled.
Okay so I’ve been debating all weekend whether to send this e-mail or not. I’ll be honest – one major reason I’m doing this is because when it all comes out I want to silently smile and say “Yep, I called it”. Not out loud or anything but just privately to myself.
This is going to be hard to believe and you probably get a lot of nutjobs writing every day – but I work in WWE HR. I’m not high up the totem pole by any means though.
So on Friday one of my co-workers had to process a release – and that release was for Daniel Bryan.
Monday, January 18th is the date that is listed for when the deal is processed. Not sure exactly why – my coworker was very quiet about the whole thing other than letting a few people know.
And to be honest she didn’t let me know – I’m not in her inner circle. I just overheard her telling someone else and she was in shock.
Not sure why it’s a week away or anything like that as our usual releases are dated that very day. She seemed shocked by it all. Anyway that’s all I know. Going to click send before I chicken out now.
Lending validity to this rumor is the fact that Bloom’s website was the first to report that John Cena was taking time off from WWE to work on a reality show. That information turned out to be completely legitimate as Cena recently filmed American Grit.
Related: Rumored Reason For John Cena Taking Time Off From WWE
Also interesting to note that Daniel Bryan has fairly regularly been posting to social media about his desire to return to the ring. Most recently he posted the following to his personal Instagram account:
A video posted by Bryan Danielson (@bryanldanielson) on
We will be discussing this issue further on today’s episode of WrestleZone Daily at Noon EST. You can listen to yesterday’s episode in the embedded audio player below:
