10 Times Wrestlers Got Over With ONE Match

2. The Fiend

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This was a revelation.

Fans were gripped by Bray Wyatt's demented Firefly Fun House vignettes. Unsettling, funny, and mysterious, Wyatt struck several discordant tones, which together formed a colourful monstrosity far scarier than any creepy gibberish or teleporting jump scare. The whole thing radiated creativity and was helped, inadvertently, by the dismal state of RAW, post-WrestleMania 35.

The voice of Bruce Prichard haunted everything. The words "And then the bell rang..." were impossible to escape. This was Bray Wyatt, after all. An anachronistic supernatural act slain by 50/50 booking in his original guise, he had to annihilate everybody in this new one to stand a chance, and he did, but only after the daft sh*tes turned the Hell In A Cell referee into a morally conflicted veterinarian.

"This is the part of the job I hate," he said, before aiming the Fiend's corpse into a bin by way of a wall and hoop.

But before that fateful, red-tinted night, the Fiend got over, the sneaky f*cker, in an awesome squash spectacle at SummerSlam '19, at which he destroyed Finn Bálor following a genuinely awe-inspiring entrance that substantiated those Undertaker comparisons for the first - and only - time.

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