#3 Royal Rumble 2014 Match
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Now, let’s look at the name of the article again. It says “memorable” NOT best, and nobody will ever forget Pittsburgh and “Boo-tista!”
Let’s backtrack twenty months, the WWE fans began rallying behind Daniel Bryan after he had criminally lost his World Title in 8 seconds, to Sheamus, at WrestleMania 28.
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Bryan’s popularity peaked at SummerSlam 2013, where he beat John Cena for the WWE title. However, Randy Orton immediately cashed in his MITB briefcase on Daniel Bryan, turning heel with Triple H in the process.
Bryan didn’t get his run as champion and failed in subsequent rematches against Orton. The WWE tried to quell the crowd rallying behind him, which only made things worse.
Fans would hijack Raw by destroying segments with “YES” and “Daniel Bryan” chants during any segment that they saw fit, demanding that Bryan be the top guy, most memorably on the go-home RAW for TLC (Orton vs Cena).
The WWE even attempted to put Bryan in the Wyatt Family, which failed miserably, lasting only two weeks.
At the 2014 Royal Rumble, the WWE opted to book Bryan in a singles match with Bray Wyatt and not feature him in the Rumble match, thinking it would stop fans chanting for him. The WWE hoped that the fans would align with a different babyface, namely Batista. They didn’t.
Batista was booed out of the building. This continued for many weeks after the Rumble until the WWE finally abandoned Batista vs Orton as the main event of WrestleMania, adding Daniel Bryan to the match.
