REPORT: Probable Time When Daniel Bryan Winning The WWE Championship Was Decided By Vince McMahon

Daniel Bryan faced off against AJ Styles for the WWE Championship on this week’s Smackdown Live. Towards the end of the match, he hit a low blow on Styles while the referee was distracted and hit him with his running knee to become the new WWE Champion. He took AJ’s spot in Survivor Series and will be facing Brock Lesnar now.

On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted how Bryan wanted to be a heel for a while now and Vince wanted Daniel vs Brock at Survivor Series. Thus Vince made the decision to turn him heel and become the WWE Champion. This is what he said:

“I don’t know the reason but it was over the weekend that Vince changed plans and wanted to know with Brock Lesnar against Daniel Bryan with a title change to Daniel Bryan — so this is before the Becky Lynch injury.”

“The heel turn was decided this afternoon. It was basically Vince saying, ‘Let’s do it all in one day and get the biggest impact.’ Now the weird part is they’ve spent how much time saying that Brock Lesnar is the ultimate heel, he never comes to work, blah, blah, blah. Now you’re going to put Daniel Bryan against Lesnar and for that match to work Daniel Bryan needs to be a babyface, but he’s a heel. So logically perhaps the heel turn should be in the re-match and not this match. [Bryan] goes into this match as a babyface, do the match, whatever they’re going to do.”

“Vince decided to do it all at once, let’s shake things up maybe the big audience drop — you know who knows what makes Vince make these moves. Maybe it was Becky Lynch being hurt? It’s like, ‘Well make a big move today that everybody talks about.”

We will have to wait and see how long Bryan will remain the champion and what kind of feuds he will be in.

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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.