10 Biggest Promises WWE Broke In 2020

9. Bray Wyatt Creates Plot Hole In Own Mythology

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The very first episode of Bray Wyatt's Firefly Fun House was a mind-melt both unsettling and, ironically, reassuring.

Wyatt entered a remarkable performance. Agitated but smiling through a grimace, he was just barely able to contain something within him, using restraint to mask whatever that something was, and as it turns out, the threat of that something was far more horrifying than the Fiend character, particularly since Goldberg defeated him via hip toss at Super Show-Down.

The segment functioned to introduce Wyatt's new persona and emphatically kill off the old cult leader. This was crucial. WWE and Wyatt recognised that it was dead - introducing Sister Abigail as simply "Bray Wyatt with a lisp and a bit helium" will do that - and so they symbolically killed him off.

"Not even in my weakest moments will I ever turn into that pathetic slob loser ever again," he said, before taking a chainsaw to a cardboard cutout. To reinforce this, The Fiend at SummerSlam carried a lantern fashioned from the cult leader's decapitated head to the ring.

However, the cult leader returned in 2020 in a bid to lull Braun Strowman back into the swamp. This internal conflict drove the crux of the storyline, which is strange. Braun should have just said "...no? You were sh*te, mate."

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