In an interview with The Orlando Sentinel, Daniel Bryan spoke about if he
feels like the face of the WWE now that he’s the focus of the main event
story.
On if he feels like the face of the WWE: “It’s
interesting because I don’t feel any different that I did six months ago really.
I’m just kind of me, I just do my thing. People ask me to do different stuff and
now they ask me to do more stuff and that’s pretty much it. It’s strange because
Total Divas is following us around now but next week the (WWE) Network is going
to be following me around just to follow me around and see what I do to get
prepared for WrestleMania and all that kind of stuff. I don’t feel like a cover
guy or anything like that but people are asking me to do more stuff!.
(laughs)”
On possibly main eventing WrestleMania 30:
“I’ve never gone up to anybody and said ‘hey, look at what I’m doing, I should
be a main guy here’. I’ve always let my work speak for itself and I’ve always
let the fan reaction speak for itself and make it so they don’t have a choice
but to do what they do with me right? It’s not me pushing for me to get this
opportunity. It’s the fans who have been pushing for it and them saying no, this
is what we want. We want this at WrestleMania and WWE has to listen to them. And
that to me is pretty cool. People have so much more power than they think and
not just in wrestling, in the world in general. A lot of these building have got
like 14,000 people in this building compared to a couple people backstage who
run the WWE. And that’s pretty much the ratio of people in the world and people
in power. You know what I mean? We have a lot more power that we think. So it’s
pretty cool.”
On being backstage at the Royal Rumble when the
crowd turned on Batista: “Yeah. Not only took it out on Batista but
they took it out on Rey Mysterio. Rey came out at number 30 and I can’t ever
remember Rey getting booed. Rey came out and was booed and that’s strange. I
would have never thought my fans would have booed Rey Mysterio because there is
a guy that has worked so hard throughout his entire career, battled knee injures
and is one of the most incredible wrestlers in the history of wrestling. It just
showed their desire to see me in the Royal Rumble and to see my succeed and see
me go on to main event WrestleMania. That’s what they wanted. It’s funny because
it wasn’t a crowd like Philadelphia or New York or anything like that. It was in
Pittsburgh. It’s been very, very unique. It’s funny because nobody really said
anything to me after the Royal Rumble. Brie and I just walked to our car and we
drove on to the next town and nobody really said much. It was interesting but
Mick Foley was actually texting Brie how outraged he was about the whole thing!
(laughs) So it was pretty interesting.”
