No, but seriously…

…dumb memes aside, what is the story even supposed to be at this point? Bryan gets screwed out of the belt at Summerslam, then has it taken away after Night of Champions, then a no-contest at Battleground and finally screwed again in his ultimate chance at revenge after a RAW where HHH and Shawn basically demeaned him as a B+ guy who couldn't win the big one? I know I rag on them "telling stories" but at least the story leading up to Summerslam made sense and paid off the MITB thing in a way that you could go from A to B to C and say "Aha, of course HHH was going to screw Bryan over there". What was the point of The Reign of Abeyance? Why not just put Orton over last month if that's where you wanted to go with it? It's now three PPVs after Summerslam and we're literally right back where we were again — Orton as champion after the referee handed him the fluke win and screwed over Daniel Bryan.

And people wonder why I can only stomach RAW on Hulu now.