WWE Rumors: Will Daniel Bryan Win Royal Rumble 2015 and Main Event WrestleMania 31?

Ever since Daniel Bryan made his return to WWE television on the final Monday Night Raw of 2014, fans have been clamoring for him to win the Royal Rumble and go on to main event WrestleMania 31. But will it actually happen?

It feels like 2014 all over again, as the fans are squarely in Bryan's corner while another man, in this case Roman Reigns, seems primed to win the Rumble and take his spot. The Rumble is in Philadelphia this year, a location noted for its hostility and aggression from the fan base when things don't go their way. It seems that all that would appease the masses is a Bryan victory on January 25.

And yet, there is panic in the streets because of some comments Bryan made in an interview with Alternative Nation, which asked for his thoughts on Vince McMahon's infamous "brass ring" comments on Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast. Here's what the people's hero had to say:

"(Laughs) You know it's funny, because one of the things that he had mentioned was, he said something about the Millennials not having any ambition, right. It's funny, because the WWE does this personality test with some of their more successful superstars, where they rank you on all of these scores, like your desire for power, and your personality, and all that kind of stuff. One of the things they ranked was ambition, and it's funny, because in this personality assessment, I got the lowest score for ambition that the lady had ever seen. So they do it on a percentile basis, so from 0 to 100, I was in the bottom 1 percentile of ambition.

(Laughs) It's funny because the lady was like, 'How on earth are you so successful given that you seem to have no ambition?' I said, 'Well, that's where there's a flaw on the test. I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.' What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition. Our generation just wants different things than what his generation wants, and I think that's a societal thing as well. There's an older generation of people who say, 'No, you guys should want this, you guys should want this, you guys should want this.' Whereas our generation, a lot of us say, 'No, we don't want that, we want something different, and a lot of the things that you guys wanted, are the reason that the world is messed up. We need to change our value system.' So that's it, that's a very different take on what's going on.

But people do need to stand up and say, 'No, this isn't what I want, I want to do this. This is me, this is how I want to present myself on television. This is how I want to be within WWE, this is how I view professional wrestling, this is what I would like it to be.' People have to have the courage to come up and say that. But the hard thing is, he was talking about the Attitude Era and how things were different, well things wouldn't have been that much different if there wasn't a WCW. Like guys could say, 'Hey, I don't want to do this. If you want to fire me fine, because I'm going to go to WCW and make just as much money.' That doesn't exist right now. It's people who are okay with like, 'Hey, my life without WWE, is as good as my life with the WWE.' They have to be able to say, 'Okay, if I'm going to say this is what I want to do, or else I'm taking my ball and going home.' They have to have some sort of plan for when they take their ball and go home, they have something else to do, which is hard, especially when you have a family, and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I have very interesting thoughts on that whole podcast. It's a very interesting look into the mind of Vince McMahon, so it was fascinating."

Because of his remarks, fans are paranoid that Vince is going to bury Bryan so deep that he'll be able to see the center of the earth. Now Vince McMahon is many things, but stupid is not one of them. He has to know what he has in Daniel Bryan: a massive fan favorite who can move the needle and spread the product to other outlets.

On a personal note, I was at the New York Rangers vs. New York Islanders game the other night at Madison Square Garden, and each of the three times the Islanders scored, the fans broke out the Yes! chant. At a hockey game. On a Tuesday.

This is what the WWE has at its disposal. Will Bryan win the Royal Rumble? I honestly don't know. It seems more likely to me that the company would use him to generate nuclear heat on a heel by having said heel eliminate Bryan from the Rumle. But we'll find out in about a week.

What do you think will happen with Daniel Bryan at the Royal Rumble? Let us know in the comments section.