5 most intriguing backstage rumors regarding the Roman Reigns 'mystery attacker' story - Unexpected botch, Original plans canceled

#4 Daniel Bryan will be revealed as the man behind the attacks

While Murphy was quick to blame Rowan for being the man behind the attacks, the speculation has still not stopped as to who the real attacker could be. This past week on SmackDown, as well, Daniel Bryan and Rowan stated that they will reveal the 'true culprit' behind the attacks on next week's episodes.

This has led to some people believing that WWE might swerve the fans, however, the feud between Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan has been planned for a long time and there is no doubt that Bryan will be revealed as the attacker.

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#3 Original plans for Daniel Bryan scrapped

WWE had been advertising Daniel Bryan's 'career-altering' announcement for a long while before the whole idea was seemingly scrapped. There was also a plan to have Roman Reigns face Bryan at SummerSlam itself, which also got canceled.

Here is what Dave Meltzer had reported on WOR:

Daniel Bryan's career-changing announcement has been scrapped. They are not going to wrestle. But some angle may happen. That's been scrapped (Daniel Bryan's career-changing announcement). However, they are going to do the reveal for this thing which they are almost at.

It came as a major surprise to everyone when both Reigns and Bryan were absent from the SummerSlam main show.