10 Most Unexpected WWE Burials Ever

There used to be a time when burials were reserved for enhancement talent and those who knew their place at the bottom of the WWE ladder. One of wrestling's greatest qualities is the ability to take its audience off guard and shock them to their core. These surprise results are part of what makes the wrestling world go around. 

A lot of these unexpected burials come from Vince McMahon's sadistic desire to piss off his audience. For the longest time, it felt as though the WWE owner and head of creative reveled in surprising swerves that left fans as disappointed as they were shocked. These staggering moments were often to the detriment of rising stars, which is crazy when the narrative around the company winning the Monday Night Wars was that they always knew how to build new stars.

Whatever way you slice it, a superstar being beaten in seconds or humiliated over the course of a feud is a hard thing to come back from. These are just some of the humiliating burials that managed to kill entire careers, cause legacies to be questioned, or derail a superstar's trajectory for years. 

Bray Wyatt was arguably at his hottest heading into WrestleMania 30. It's no stretch to say that The Eater of Worlds had established himself as one of the leading talents of his generation when he emerged on the main roster in 2013. On the road to his first Wrestlemania, Bray had picked up PLE wins over Daniel Bryan, Kane, and he led the Wyatt Family to a massive win over The Shield. Make no mistake about it, he was red hot.

Wyatt's sinister promos and haunting use of song had tens of thousands at the Superdome in New Orleans singing "he's got the whole world in his hands" at WrestleMania 30. His entrance featured haunting plague doctors, shrouded in darkness and flanked by lanterns, playing him to the ring with a live rendition of his psychedelic early entrance theme. It was breathtaking stuff. Bray's mission was to corrupt the soul of WWE's whitest knight, John Cena, on the grandest stage of them all and anoint himself as the heir to The Undertaker's throne, giving WWE a new face of fear to build on for the decade ahead.

So, of course, he got decked by Big Match John.

This summarizes this era of WWE. They refused to score an open goal when it came to making new superstars during this period. Fans had to literally use social media and physical protests to hijack shows to ensure Daniel Bryan got his flowers at this same WrestleMania. Bray Wyatt was not so fortunate. 

John Cena's victory at WrestleMania 30 did nothing to further his own legacy but did everything to destroy Wyatt's momentum. It was to prove prophetic, as WWE's creative would always be the roadblock between Bray and his true potential as one of the most popular wrestlers in the world.