10 Radical WWE Ideas To Save The Wyatt Family

Eighteen months ago I wrote about the ways in which WWE was already managing to ruin the Bray Wyatt character. In the intervening period, things have significantly improved for the real life Windham Rotunda and his giant cronies€ no, only joking. They€™ve actually gotten worse. Let€™s compare Wyatt€™s treatment by WWE€™s creative wing with that afforded to the only other character in WWE history with a similar pedigree and aura to him: The Undertaker. The level of protection that Mark Calaway received as a callow twenty-five-year-old with the WWE is pretty much unprecedented in wrestling. He€™d barely lose at all for years, whether engaged in minor feuds in the midcard or competing for the WWF Championship. Vince McMahon€™s edict for his debut was that the big man should never leave his feet unless he did it himself, and that order would remain in place for a very long time. Contrast that to Bray Wyatt, who's lost more feuds than he's won - but that€™s supposed to be okay, because his whole character is based around having a far more meaningful effect than simply winning and losing matches. The problem is that he never has that meaningful effect on anyone. There€™s no one on the roster who€™s become a changed man since feuding with Wyatt. This is a cult leader who€™s failed to recruit anyone from WWE into his Family. When the Undertaker was a cult leader, he brainwashed other WWF Superstars into being his evil occult slaves. Conversely, in 2013/2014 Bray Wyatt was made a fool of by Daniel Bryan. In 2016, Bray Wyatt is generally viewed as all mouth and no trousers: a tubby bearded loon who can't deliver on his scary look and fearsome promises of apocalypse. But there€™s still time to change that. Here€™s how.