10 Big Mistakes WWE Have Made With Bray Wyatt

10. Splitting The Wyatt Family

Bray Wyatt is a cult leader. In order to be a successful and convincing cult leader, he must have followers.

Sounds straightforward enough, right?

Not if you’re WWE, apparently.

Part of Bray’s mystique comes from his ability to manipulate others into doing his bidding. In Luke Harper and Erick Rowan, he had two able henchmen who were far stronger by his side than they were alone, and vice versa. Sadly, WWE decided to split the group in 2014, and it was a huge mistake all-round.

Rowan clearly wasn’t ready for singles action, and while Luke Harper had a decent run as Intercontinental champion, he was never booked particularly strongly. Bray, meanwhile, floundered without his allies, and didn’t even bother to replace either man after “setting them free”. You can’t be a backwoods cult leader without cultists, thus rendering one of the things that made Bray so compelling completely irrelevant.

The trio eventually came back together and added Braun Strowman to their ranks, but they never recovered their lost momentum. Now, with Strowman on Raw and Rowan injured, we’re back down to just Harper and Wyatt. A full break-up never seems far away, however, and fans shouldn’t be surprised to see them go their separate ways again soon.