What if WWE ends the brand split?

#2 Seth Rollins vs. Daniel Bryan

A lot of dream matches we haven't seen in WWE, or haven't seen for a long time, could take shape without a division between rosters

One of the results of a split roster is that certain stars who might make for natural rivals don’t cross paths.

This tends to be a reason why more casual fans balk at divvying up locker rooms by separate brands, as we needlessly miss out on some enticing pairings.

On the flip side, though, this arrangement allows WWE to build its own dream matches in a way that it used to take separate companies altogether to do.

Indeed, part of the fun of the old days of WCW was to imagine dream matches between WCW’s Sting and WWE’s Undertaker, or WWE’s D-generation X and WCW’s New World Order.

More than facilitating fantasy booking, WWE is banking big programs by keeping talents apart with the knowledge they can profit from bringing them together down the road.

The last time Daniel Bryan and Seth Rollins were on the same show was during the original Shield run when Rollins was by no means on Bryan’s level.

Having them on the same roster would invite these two incredibly talented stars who are each incredibly over with the hardcore fan base to finally collide on near equal footing, on the WWE stage.

We could expect the matches to be classics and to feel fresh after brand division and Bryan’s temporary retirement kept them apart.