10 Wrestlers That Shouldn't Have Lost Their WrestleMania Debuts
2. Bray Wyatt
Even I was skeptical of the idea of putting Bray Wyatt in the ring with John Cena at WrestleMania 30, so soon after his debut. There was no doubt that he deserved to be in a high profile match at WrestleMania, but the real question was whether they would allow him to score the career-defining victory on the grand stage.
Their match wasn't nearly as atrocious as some of the aforementioned encounters, but it fell well below expectations. For one thing, the story they told throughout the contest didn't match what the feud was all about. Since when was Wyatt trying to encourage Cena to "embrace the hate" a la Kane in 2012? Wasn't he simply trying to tarnish his legacy?
Although Wyatt had his faithful followers Luke Harper and Erick Rowan in his corner, they proved to be non-factors in the finish. Cena fended them off before planting The Eater of Worlds with an Attitude Adjustment for the clean win. And it's hard not to feel that Wyatt hasn't been the same since.
Granted, he defeated Cena in their Steel Cage rematch at Extreme Rules, but only after an excessive amount of interference from The Wyatt Family. Wyatt just doesn't have that same aura about him that he did before he ran into the roadblock that was John Cena.