10 Most Improved Wrestlers On The Planet Today

9. Bray Wyatt

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As Husky Harris, Windham Rotunda was defined exclusively by the perceived issues with his weight.

It's difficult to imagine the likes of Bam Bam Bigelow being damned with faint praise for his ability to athletically hurl his mammoth frame around the ring, but he wasn't subject to the paradigm shift in WWE commentary which took root at the turn of the decade.

Harris didn't help his cause by referring to himself as the "army tank with the Ferrari engine" in a fatalistic approach to his career, the course of which was mercifully altered by Dusty Rhodes' creation of the Bray Wyatt character.

Wyatt is an almost unrecognisable and inconceivable upgrade on the Harris character, which barely warranted the designation. Capable of moving the notoriously huge WWE ring with his immense combination of speed and power, Wyatt has also perfected the art of infusing the all-important space between moves with his almost-method approach to the gimmick.

It's a testament to his ingenuity, the most gripping example of which remains the chilling spider walk, that Wyatt retains fan support despite the baffling booking to which he has been subjected since his main roster debut in 2013.

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