10 Storylines WWE ENJOYED Ruining

7. Bray Wyatt

Ted Dibiase Randy Orton
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Count the ways WWE bent the Bray Wyatt character before it eventually broke for good in 2018. Or don't because you'd have more than the entries in this list and an awful lot of disappointment to wade through in the process.

The debut against Kane was a borderline catastrophe. His failure to comprehensively defeat CM Punk and Daniel Bryan in that tag feud after the fact was weird. His inability to convince Bryan to join the family. His loss to John Cena at WrestleMania. His trick-playing against him coming too little too late for anybody to give a sh*t. His feud with Chris Jericho had a reductive effect on 'Y2J' pulling him into the midcard one year after 'The Eater Of Worlds' debut. One year, all of that.

Not exactly The Undertaker's 1990 to 1991 Survivor Series run, is it?

Imagine that, but every year unless broken up by injuries and yet more false hope. Wyatt's story was one of failure after faliure briefly perforated by a rule-proving exception. His colleagues thought him a genius, many of them saw it for themselves in the flesh and bones of FCW Promo Class. His supporters held firm that all that talk of buzzards and Abigail would one day actually arrive at a grand payoff.

His only hope, was his total reimagining...

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