Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com discussed Daniel Bryan's heel turn on Smackdown Live. Here is what Meltzer said courtesy of RingsideNews.com:

“So it is a complicated story but Daniel Bryan himself has been pushing the idea of going heel just because his booking as a babyface with The Miz was counterproductive. It’s amazing to me that he came back in March and here we are in November and obviously, he made this choice some time back — not a long time back but weeks back — that he had to go heel.”

“So that was [Daniel’s] call, well, in the end, it was Vince’s call. So that was something that he wanted to do that had not been approved.”

Meltzer also commented on WWE deciding to do a WWE Title change and the heel turn on the same night to make the biggest impact possible:

“The heel turn was decided this afternoon. It was basically Vince saying, ‘Let’s do it all in one day and get the biggest impact.’ Now the weird part is they’ve spent how much time saying that Brock Lesnar is the ultimate heel, he never comes to work, blah, blah, blah. Now you’re going to put Daniel Bryan against Lesnar and for that match to work Daniel Bryan needs to be a babyface, but he’s a heel. So logically perhaps the heel turn should be in the re-match and not this match. [Bryan] goes into this match as a babyface, do the match, whatever they’re going to do.”