There's a lot to get through this week. You know it. I know it. Here's a cat .gif.

Second year in a row

Bryan having a poor showing in the Rumble itself

The WWE knowing that fans would hate Bryan losing so they took him out early on purpose to try and create a cool-down buffer zone between Bryan's elimination and Reigns' win.

For the second year in a row now, fans both in attendance and at home have crapped all over the Royal Rumble. It's now been two days since Roman Reigns - AND THE ROCK - got booed in Philly. The WWE, who loves using hashtags, along with flaunting weekly social media numbers victories on RAW and Smackdown, had to sit with a big fat #CancelWWENetwork Twitter trend that lasted overnight and long into Monday. Time, USA Today, and other outlets rans stories about the Royal Rumble fan outrage. I even did a radio interview this morning about the whole thing.Sounds like a disaster, right? And it was for the most part. Daniel Bryan got shafted again. One of my Twitter followers sent me my own words from this past December's Year-End 2014 Wrap Up...Having Bryan be in the Rumble and not win was a mistake. It would have been best to delay his return until after the event. Just have him not be around for it at all. You might think that this Rumble isn't as bad as last year's seeing as how Bryan was totally left out of the Rumble in 2014 and no one wanted Batista to win (Reigns at least has a fan-base), but it is. If not worse. Roman's a better pick than Batista, for sure, but the fact that this was the second year Bryan fans got screwed is terrible. Also, Bryan was eliminated from the Rumble in a flat, unceremonious, s***ty way. Fandango outperformed him. So not only did Bryan not win the Rumble, he was treated like crapola.So if you take these factors......this was the perfect storm of skullf***ery.The WWE knew what would happen. Reports are saying Vince underestimated fan rage (shocker), but he had to know Roman would still be having trouble getting cheered at the end - hence The Rock. Rocky coming out to get the cheers for Roman. But even that didn't work.Apparently, after the Rumble the WWE Network Subscription Cancellation page crashed - Assumedly due to fans flocking to the site to use their money as their voice. It was also reported that fans were blocking cars outside the arena after the show. All rumors that are hard to truly correlate. The #CancelWWENetwork hashtag was real though. Whether or not people actually left the Network - enough to make a dent - is data no one has access to except the WWE. Rumors state that, yes, some people did drop off, but not enough to cause Vince to care.In the wake of all this though, two days out, WWE just announced that, with the UK and Ireland, they've hit one million subscribers to the Network. Which is the amount they need to basically stop losing money on the Network. So this is a big deal for them. Don't take this as a sign that your voice doesn't matter though. You may not be able to make them spiral, but they're still losing subscribers due to the Rumble (even if it's just from a "they're not growing the way that they could be" standpoint).Online outrage rarely manifests itself into an actual monetary movement. But I will say this. This is the season when the WWE wants to grow their subscriber numbers. This is Mania season. This is the time of the year when they stand the best chance of bringing in the most people. And they're losing people. Even if it's just a small amount, they're losing. It's still the opposite of what they want to be happening. Finding a silver lining in all of this is truly an exercise in precision sorcery.Now, onto me. What did I think? As a huge Daniel Bryan fan who would much much MUCH rather see him face Lesnar at Mania than Roman Reigns, I was bummed and pissed after the Rumble. It did feel worse than last year because it was happening again. Last year, the WWE was hit with the one-two punch of the Rumble pissing people off AND Punk leaving. All in the same week. Punk being gone really lit a fire under fans and that ultimately helped get Bryan into the Mania main event. Bryan was slated to fight Sheamus at Mania last year around this time. After all he'd done with Cena at SummerSlam and then feuding for the belt all Autumn, he was going to face Sheamus.Well he's slated to face Sheamus again this year too. As of now. Again. And I don't know that we can help change it like we did last year. If Bray vs. Undertaker doesn't pan out, Bryan might face Bray, which is much better, but it feels like, even with the Network in place (it wasn't during last year's Rumble), we're not going to move the needle this time around. A combination of not having the pull (unless, like, two hundred thousand people drop the Network) and Vince not wanting to cave to fans again.

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