Mick Foley Wants Daniel Bryan to Win the 2015 Royal Rumble

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley wants Daniel Bryan to win the 2015 Royal Rumble Match. As previously reported, Bryan will be a major star vying for a chance to become No. 1 Contender in the 30-man over-the-top rope Battle Royal that will take place during the 28th annual “Royal Rumble” PPV event on Jan. 25.

Foley broke his silence on Facebook to tell of his WWE-related “wish.” He wrote the following to persuade fans and WWE officials to again push Bryan was the No. 1 underdog in the business heading into WrestleMania 31.

MY RUMBLE WISH

It was two weeks i’ll go that I said I was going to be taking a break from Facebook until after the ?#?RoyalRumble?. After all, it was my comments surrounding the Rumble last year that altered my relationship with WWE in a not so positive way.. But it’s the Rumble man – in my opinion, the second biggest event of the year, and in some ways the most fun and most meaningful. Of course, Wrestlemania is bigger – but if Mania is Christmas Day, the Rumble is like the beginning to that countdown to the most awesome day of the year, and depending on how well this event goes, many of us start thinking that ?#?Mania?/Christmas is either going to rule… or suck, depending on the outcome of the Rumble.

This, then, is my Rumble wish for you. Quite simply, I want to see Daniel Bryan win the Rumble, so that Paul Heyman can take the reigns and dazzle us with promos which will make Bryan vs Lesnar the greatest David vs Goliath story in recent memory. The Authority can put their stamp on some other match on the card but I would love to see the WWE World Heavyweight championship be about the GUYS IN THE MATCH- and not about who is in power in the company. Besides, despite my sincere wish not to burn my bridge with WWE, making control of the company a central theme in this Mania is kind of like the boy crying wolf – given the magnitude of the stipulation at Survivor Series and the whopping five weeks for which it meant something.

During Daniel’s nine month in ring absence, I think many of us have forgotten just how good he is from what we in wrestling refer to as “fighting from underneath”. For all the knocks on Brock’s infrequent television appearances, WWE, Brock and Heyman have done an amazing job turning Lesnar into the most imposing unbreakable wall that WWE has ever constructed. At wrestlemania, I would like to see Daniel Bryan systematically chip away at that wall, knock it down, and give the WWE universe a victory they can savor…and more importantly, look forward to. The best present is the one that sits under the tree, neatly wrapped, ready to be torn into on Christmas Day. There’s no need to overthink it. Tie it up in a bow with a Bryan victory at the Rumble, and let us all start counting down the days until we get to open it.

Tell me what you think.

Have a nice day.

This is not the first time that Foley has longed for Bryan to win the Rumble Match and head to WrestleMania as No. 1 Contender. In 2014, Foley made the same plea, only he promised that if WWE did not have Bryan win the annual Rumble Match, that he would destroy his television set. He kept his word (sort of) and destroyed his daughter’s TV in protest when Bryan wasn’t even featured in the 2014 Rumble. 

Bryan did make an impact though, as WWE officials had to rescript WrestleMania XXX to feature Bryan as the headliner, where he defeated Triple H, Batista, and Randy Orton to become WWE World Heavyweight Champion on the grandest stage of them all. Foley acknowledged that the WWE made the right call and gave Bryan a shot, but it seems as if he’s begging them to take a chance just one more time on the greatest underdog of all time.

Editor’s Note:
I agree with Foley. To me, Bryan vs. Lesnar would be a better match-up than Roman Reigns vs. Lesnar any day of the week. My gut still says Reigns wins the Rumble though.