What do you think is Roman still paying and receiving fan backlash due to not being Daniel Bryan ? Yes . Although not even necessarily because of Daniel Bryan although I think that was a big part of it . The problem with Roman continued even after Bryan had to retire . I think eventually it stopped being about Daniel Bryan and instead became Fuck you for pushing this guy so doggedly when we ' ve made it clear we don ' t want him . Fuck you for trying to manufacture the next top star while you ' ve repeatedly sabotaged every single guy that we ' ve actually cheered for . And I think that fuck you reaction is going to continue probably for as long as Roman remains a babyface . I think that if the WWE had just steered into the hate and turned him heel when this all started , then right now they might be in a position to turn him babyface and have him by the top star they want because anyone who is a heel long enough , and does a good enough job of it , eventually gets cheered . And people tend to love heels doing face turns . But they didn ' t . And I don ' t know why they didn ' t . But whatever the reason behind it was , it was definitely a stupid one .