OK. So on the current WWE roster there's an athletic 300 pound man who looks like a cult leader, cuts convincing promos and has beaten John Cena, Chris Jericho and was competitive against The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. At one time he was flanked by a uniquely talented seven footer and a guy who looks like an axe murderer. All that being said, it's a criminal shame that Bray Wyatt and The Wyatt Family aren't perhaps being pushed as the (New) Authority in WWE. Bray Wyatt feuding with Roman Reigns helps nobody. Wyatt beats Reigns and you've proven the experiment to be a failure. Reigns beats Wyatt and Bray Wyatt is a lead horse with no name. Here's how to fix that. Bray Wyatt and Roman Reigns go to a bloody double DQ at Battleground. It's a war, both guys brawl all over the building, Reigns gets color, and Triple H makes the decision that this match is too violent to EVER happen again. Shift attention to Bray Wyatt and Triple H, as Bray's now mad at the boss for ending his reign of terror against Reigns. You have Hunter get laid out by Wyatt the next week on Raw, with the family coming into the ring and doing a number on him, too. You end the show in the Authority's office where Stephanie is bloodied, Wyatt's standing over her, and Bray says, "WWE's under new management...follow the buzzards." Bray as The Authority would be intriguing in the sense that wildness could occur on the show every week as nobody would want to go anywhere near his office, and we'd even get word from Vince McMahon that he had received a threat of violence from Wyatt, and that he was staying away. Bringing back Triple H and The Rock to wrest control away from Wyatt but instead having Wyatt pit them against each other at Wrestlemania? That's be something to see. Bray being in power and giving divas a chance, having Harper and Rowan get established on the mid-card, letting guys like Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose create mayhem, would be great. Bray doing even weirder things like say, having a kinship with Stardust, favoring Paige because she's got a darker persona, and just bringing in some bizarre elements to TV would be appreciated, too. This must happen.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
