10 Totally Wasted Wrestling Gimmicks

There was a time when Matt Hardy's former Deleters of Worlds partner was one of the hottest commodities in the entire wrestling business. Bray Wyatt's cult leader character entranced audiences from the moment he set foot in NXT back in 2012.

The persona would transform as Wyatt and his Family inevitably made their presence known on the "main roster", with Wyatt himself leaning more and more into the fantastical elements that surrounded his 'Eater of Worlds' moniker. Yet, a seemingly never-ending cycle of the enthralling performer being built up to take on a big name, only to be convincingly bested in the end, damaged the act beyond repair.

Then, after going missing for nearly a year, Wyatt re-emerged with a character steeped in the sort of innovative and dazzling energy his last incarnation once possessed. The Fiend, alongside a mesmerising children's TV host alter ego, had arrived.

But, it didn't take long for WWE to run yet another one of Wyatt's ambitious creations right into the ground, with the demonic clown devolving into a parody of itself within a few months and never truly recovering from being bulldozed by Da Man in Saudi Arabia.

Oh, what could've been Muscle Man...