10 Worst WWE Gimmicks Of 2017

4. "They Think It's All Over...It Is Now" Bray Wyatt

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2017 was the year in which Bray Wyatt was officially demoted from "great lost hope" to "irredeemable joke".

It all started so well, too: there was something to his partnership with Randy Orton, lightning eyes and all - at least until it emerged that the entire programme was a plot hole-ridden retcon Randy conceived as vengeance for a routine backstage attack. Their WrestleMania WWE Championship bout was nonsensical - hollow supernatural spectacle designed to wrench from it a "WrestleMania Moment". To confirm it as contrived, Wyatt's projected bugs bit didn't do anything; he walked into an RKO after 10 turgid minutes.

The House Of Horrors rematch created crater-sized plot holes and yielded nought but derisive laughter. Wyatt crammed Orton under a refrigerator in that silly, silly match, which was very mundane for a so-called supernatural force. The mundanity did not end there; the "viscous, acidic liquid" summer blood bath spewed forth from a bucket. Any mere mortal could have done that, and that's precisely what Wyatt became in 2017: a complete charlatan masquerading as a boogeyman.

The Sister Abigail debut was so laughably bad that a serious illness must have been received by Bray with the euphoria of an orgasm.

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