10 Wrestlers Who Suffered The Most From WWE WrestleMania 37

1. The Fiend

The Fiend Bray Wyatt
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Even Bray Wyatt's biggest devotees must have felt disappointed with how The Fiend was presented at WrestleMania 37, as he dropped a dismal night two opener to Randy Orton in around six minutes.

Supposedly the product of a last-minute booking change, which suggests a lack of long-term plan for either man, Wyatt lost to a single RKO. Where once it took literal fire to keep him down, a simple distraction and a finishing move (the likes of which he has no-sold countless times before) put him away in Tampa.

The nature of the finish made it worse. Though loremasters will claim something deeper is at work, saying Wyatt saw an image of Sister Abigail in Alexa Bliss's goop-sodden face, Bray looked like a dope for lingering on his infantile sidekick for so long. The Fiend was foiled by the simplest of booking tropes.

Inconsistency is a major problem with The Fiend, who was once presented as an unkillable monster but is now as stoppable as anyone else on the roster. This took the wind out of his spooky sails in a big way.

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