Daniel Bryan and Talking Smack are perfect together. Although it is never the same as his epic, sponsored by Tout 2016-2017, performed on the show with Renee Young, DB’s appearances on the restarted show were very good.
Your last visit to Smash post-show had it all. Bryan continued the work he started when he was a Talking Smack invited in December, and has stayed on Friday nights and in interviews since then, preparing for “one last race” of tomorrow’s Royal Rumble for the main event of WrestleMania 37. Here he did this by contrasting his love for professional wrestling in its purest form with champion Universal Roman Reigns, a mercenary approach to the square circle.
“There are some things that you missed and it has to do with motivation and what motivates me. I’m not interested in glory. I am not interested in the adulation of the fans, despite all the screams of yes. Do you know what I loved? I loved it when we were at the Performance Center, fighting in front of zero people with zero noise, just fighting. Do you know what made people love me? I don’t know if you remember the Royal Rumble 2015? I don’t know if you remember that? I lost too fast. This is what Roman Reigns won. It was in Philadelphia. I stayed in the ring for about 5 minutes. 5 minutes total in that Royal Rumble, but when Roman Reigns won, everyone booed. Rocha congratulated him. The Rock saying, ‘oh man, you’re the man,’ and The Rock putting Roman, people booed.
“I have a theory about why this happens, and that’s it. I think you’re right, Roman Reigns may be the best now. He’s acting on a totally different level than everyone else, but he doesn’t fight with his heart. It’s a facade, it always has been. He appeared when he debuted at this company wearing a vest, a bulletproof vest so you couldn’t see his heart. I have a theory that because they connected with me, it happens every night, I put my heart out there. It happened on SmackDown, right. I’ve been fighting for 21 years, Paul. You go there and stay there for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, a lot of guys who have been in this business for as long as I have, they would venture out. I get there with a chance to fight The Miz, which I completely hate, and there is nowhere in the world I would prefer to be. Therefore, the big difference is not who is the best or who wants glory, but who is willing to fight with the heart. “
But that is not all! We also got some of the weird Bryan – you know, the guy who fights bears and always had a double sexual sense ready for Renée in the old Talking Smack. Here, my man reveals that his hip and glute training with Chad Gable & Otis at Alpha Academy will allow him to “throw away so many men” at Rumble, and … yes.
Gable & Otis don’t just serve as comic books, Daniel can serve us alongside Team Hell of his personality. They also serve as support for the men who sit at Reigns’ table. Are you ready for Alpha Academy vs. The Uses on the Road to DB vs. Roman in WrestleMania 37?
See Bryan’s almost perfect appearance on January 30 Talking Smack and let us know what you think in the comments below