5 Reasons The Shane McMahon vs Daniel Bryan Storyline Is Doomed to Fail

#3 Horrible booking decisions

Daniel Bryan standing with Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens at Clash Of Champions.

While The WWE has seemingly been successful in pacifying The WWE Universe with the inclusion of Daniel Bryan in a major storyline, even that cant hide the fact that this is probably one of the worst booked feuds in recent memory and keeps giving fans lacklustre payoffs week after week on Smackdown Live.

Not only is the booking slow, plodding and gives little in the way of payoffs, it also takes away from the realism of the storylines being portrayed. For example, why would Bryan book AJ Styles in a two on one handicap match against Owens and Zayn for The WWE Title? It's horribly unfair for the babyface and also makes Bryan look horrible in the process.

Then there's the fact that Bryan seemingly allowed Owens and Zayn to keep their jobs multiple times, which on the surface seemed realistic due to the fact that Bryan was only trying to protect them for Shane's biases, but to continue to do so after all their shenanigans and blatant manipulation just makes Bryan look absolutely stupid.

Finally, there's the payoff of it all, or in this case, a lack of one. Sure, WWE allowed Zayn and Owens to keep their jobs at Clash of Champions, but only after Daniel Bryan made the save with one of the quickest three counts in WWE history. Not only did that tarnish the payoff of seeing Zayn and Owens either leave or stay on Smackdown live, it also hurt Bryan as well.

With that being said, it seems like any pay off from here on out is going to come at the price of Daniel Bryan's legacy Sure, Zayn or Owens might win The WWE Title from AJ Styles at The Royal Rumble and go on to compete at WrestleMania 34 in the main event, but that is only going to further tarnish Bryan more and more in the meantime.