I don't buy the whole Batista doesn't dig Bryan thing. He worked with him and made him look pretty good IIRC. I think Batista was pulling a Nash at the time "Take shots at the top guys"
All I know is that the dirt sheets said Shawn complained about Bryan being fired (
which Shawn actually denied on twitter, but then again he's spent a career trolling the sheets), but he did go out of his way to congratulate Bryan on several occassions for different accomplishments on twitter. Which he NEVER does. Shawn is notorious for not giving two shyts bout wrestling when he tweets. He's put over Bryan more than anyone on there, Punk and Ziggler to much lesser extents.
It's whatever tho, let's just enjoy D-Bry being more entertaining than Punk