10 New Directions For WWE After Backlash 2016
6. Have Bray Wyatt Actually Win On PPV
Okay, this one’s more of a dig than anything - a slightly glib way of hammering home the point that WWE need to change the way that Bray Wyatt’s being booked.
At Backlash, Bray Wyatt wrestled in his first singles PPV match since Hell in a Cell in October 2015. So I guess it was just a positive to finally see him back in action on a more significant stage.
What wasn’t such a positive was the fact that WWE’s contingency plan was to replace the injured Randy Orton with Kane, and to then have the 49-year-old defeat Wyatt (albeit thanks to interference from Orton).
Shenanigans aside, it just seems silly to feed Wyatt to someone who’s essentially a part-time performer these days, especially when Wyatt is running around purporting to be a God, yet losing all the important matches he finds himself competing in.
If fans are expected to take the threat of Wyatt seriously then he needs some wins to back up his bravado. I get that the loss to Kane was a means of furthering the Orton angle, but that doesn’t change the fact that Wyatt now hasn’t won a singles match on PPV since Battleground in July 2015.
That stat makes giving Wyatt a PPV win as necessary a direction as it is a new one.