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Despite the increasingly vocal disapproval from the fans, the WWE kept the Cena and Orton feud going into the new year. The two would be forced to wrestle a Royal Rumble Championship match while having to endure chants such as ‘Boring’ and ‘We want refunds’. It was at this event that the anger surrounding Daniel Bryan’s sidelining reached near breaking point as Batista became the 2014 Rumble winner with Bryan nowhere to be seen.
Fans started to become legitimately irritated at the realisation that Bryan wasn’t going to be a feature of the company’s plans going forward, even to the point where many were threatening to boycott WrestleMania altogether. Faced with the prospect of a WrestleMania main event between Randy Orton and The Animal, fans began hijacking more and more matches, chanting ‘Daniel Bryan’ and ‘YES’ whether he was in the ring or not.
With the departure of CM Punk early in the year and the increasing pressure put on the WWE by fans, Bryan was eventually inserted into the main event of the show after the company staged a literal hijacking of Raw with multiple fans in DB t-shirts chanting YES inside the ring.
Triple H announced that he would face Bryan with the winner of that match going on to compete for the title in the main event. In the words of Jerry Lawler, WrestleMania became ‘Yeslemania’, as the former ROH Champion accomplished what it still the greatest feat in professional wrestling today, becoming WWE World Heavyweight Champion and poster boy of the industry.
Despite his career now being over due to injury, Bryan’s victory over Orton and Batista has solidified him as part of WWE folklore for good.
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