10 Wrestlers Who Got Into Incredible Shape This Year

1. Bray Wyatt

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In line with an outlandish reintroduction as a warped childrens entertainer, Bray Wyatt also returned to Monday Night Raw in April 2019 looking noticeably trimmer - was time away the perfect tonic for the 'Eater Of Worlds' and partner Matt Hardy in their separate battles with the bulge?

Off the road for much of sabbatical, Wyatt's also trimmed his beard and hair in an effort to exploit the size discrepancy between the 'New Face Of Fear' and curious idea WWE creative have concocted for him, and its to his huge credit - an identity shift such as this requires a great deal of earnest conviction from the performer, and a physical change goes a long way to creating genuine separation between both versions of the grisly gimmick.

Wyatt's weight has been a source of contention in the past - his Husky Harris run early in the decade was allegedly iced due to his size - but, along with the gimmick change, if his recent shifting of the size does anything to rebuild his fractured WWE tenure, it can only be another huge positive.

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