Once of the hottest acts as 2014 began was the Wyatt Family, a Southern backwoods mini-cult. They delivered in the ring, and their leader, Bray Wyatt, certainly brought the goods on the microphone. The group was a little directionless and had a failed attempt at converting Daniel Bryan, but the members remained extremely popular and loaded with potential. Then came John Cena. The Cena/Wyatt feud sucked the life out of Bray, with Wyatt losing at WrestleMania XXX (a good match, but one that Cena certainly didnt need to win). Wyatt won a steel cage match with the help of his stablemates and a demonic-voiced child, but then lost the decisive Last Man Standing match (another good match). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR6yVUxXnyA The feud had the potential to elevate Bray as a main event player, but by losing more often than he won, Wyatt looked more like a rest stop in Cenas career before he won world title #15. Thankfully, Bray looks like hes reinvigorated by his feud with Dean Ambrose, but the Cena feud was a definite downer.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
