WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan is one of the most over members of the roster for the company, but that doesn't mean he isn't open to turning heel.
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Bryan, who is set to face Roman Reigns at Fast Lane later this month to determine the No. 1 contender for Brock Lesnar's WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31, told The U.K.'s Digital Spy that he'd be open to a character change if it happens.
"I think anything is possible. To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving," Bryan told the site. "If you stay the same, all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind. This whole time that I've been gone, I've been thinking about the product, I've been watching the show - how can I change so that when I come back I'm a little bit different, so I'm more in tune with the audience? When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different', and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale', I am not opposed to being the bad guy again. Being a bad guy is fun for me. So we'll see."
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When Bryan faces Reigns, he has an opportunity to change the main event to WrestleMania, like what happened last year when he defeated Triple H and was added to the main event with Randy Orton and Batista. Bryan said CM Punk's departure also added to that.
"Two major things happened that caused me to be in the spot I was at last year's WrestleMania: the fans rejected Batista as being the big returning hero that WWE wanted him to be and CM Punk left," Bryan said. "These are two great big gaping holes that now have to be filled at WrestleMania. If you main event WrestleMania with just Batista and Randy Orton, the WrestleMania crowd is not going to like that. Then CM Punk was supposed to wrestle Triple H, and now you have this opening for Triple H. So those were the two major things that caused me to be in the spot that I was for WrestleMania and neither of them had anything to do with me per se. I didn't go out there and do anything, the fans took control of the one thing [Batista's heel turn] and then Punk left and that took control of the other thing, and it's like, 'Well, what do we do for these two problems? Ah, well - there's Daniel Bryan!' So yeah that's what happened, Punk was very accurate in what he said."
Lastly, Bryan was asked if the smart fans -- who mercilessly booed Roman Reigns at the Royal Rumble and were angry when "The Beard" was eliminated -- ruin things for wrestlers.
"I honestly don't think that it's that different," he said. "A similar thing [to the 2014 Royal Rumble] happened at Royal Rumble in 1994, with Bret Hart and Lex Luger. Lex Luger was the guy that the WWE was really behind, they did the whole 'Lex Express' thing. But the fans wanted Bret Hart, and so it's interesting that that kind of thing has happened before, it'll happen again. But I don't know if the fans are ruining the fun. For me they're making it really exciting! Because honestly, without the fans doing what they did last year, I would have never main evented WrestleMania. The fans are the reason why I even got that opportunity. That was never meant to be my spot, so I encourage that sort of thing! I might change my tune if it goes against me one of these days, but as for now - I like it."
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