10 Major Mistakes WWE Has Made In 2015

3. Bray Wyatt & The Wyatt Family

One of the more frustrating things about watching WWE in the last couple of years has been the inconsistent attention paid to Bray Wyatt and, by extension, the motley members of his extended Family. Bray may have lost handily to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania this year in his quest to succeed him as WWE€™s €˜face of fear€™, but there€™s plenty he has in common with the Dead Man... and plenty he doesn't. Mark Calaway€™s gimmick is protected from on high by the prince of darkness himself: Vincent Kennedy McMahon. He€™s had a constant and consistent level of commitment to his character and the various gimmicks that have surrounded it since he debuted nearly twenty-five years ago. Given how ridiculous that character has been during that time, that level of support may well be unprecedented in the history of the business. Compare and contrast that to Wyatt€™s occult cult leader, and note how he€™s treated. He debuted full of portents and sudden mayhem, two huge sinister henchmen by his side. His character arrived fully formed: honed in developmental, it appeared to have survived the call-up in one piece. But Windham Rotunda wouldn€™t receive the same level of protection as Mark Calaway. Every time he seemed to be gaining traction and getting over as a demonic heel, something would go wrong: he€™d lose the wrong match in the wrong way or to the wrong person; his unhinged, charismatic rhetoric began to sway people to cheer instead of fear him; he had his Family removed from his side to make a go of WWE without him; he and the entire Family were cheerfully, brainlessly squashed by Cena several times; the list goes on. Wyatt€™s lackadaisical booking has extended to his promos. Once dark, impenetrable, full of secrets, they€™ve become bad photocopies of themselves, smudged and repetitive. There€™s only so many times you can watch a man who styles himself The Eater Of Worlds have an entirely pedestrian feud with Chris Jericho or Dean Ambrose in which he accomplishes nothing€ where you can€™t even really figure out what he was trying to accomplish in the first place. Why did he target them? Why the wrestling matches? What was he trying to achieve with a pinfall? No one really knows, and a lot of people stopped caring a while back.