10 Wrestlers Who Went To Insane Lengths To Get Over (But Didn't)
8. Nobody Gets Bray Wyatt's Coded Messages
Bray Wyatt might just be the most polarising wrestling act of the century.
His fans loved him, thought he was a creative genius, the next Undertaker, the biggest wasted opportunity in WWE history. His critics mocked his Joker references and eerie laughter under the belief that his "lore" was mostly derived from dorm room posters.
Did he break the universe of storytelling, or should WWE have let him expand it?
His not great in-ring record might spawn its own lore, but Wyatt was very, very committed to his bit, whatever you thought of it: he worked tirelessly to get himself over, established connections to make his aesthetic look big-time, and was relentless in his bid to become a cult leader in fiction and in reality.
This was mostly for naught. In 2019, a disappointed Wyatt revealed that, several years ago, he cut eight consecutive backstage promos in which one sentence was out of place - but every odd sentence formed its own secret message. Nobody is yet to figure it out, and thus, nobody could put over its genius.
Firstly, only a lunatic would go back and watch one episode of RAW from 2015, much less eight on the bounce. Secondly, Wyatt didn't say many coherent things to begin with, so what qualifies as "didn't belong"?
He is adamant that this was a thing, comparing it to Tool's crafty use of the Fibonacci sequence. The difference for potential lseuthsis that Lateralus rips, and RAW from 2015 had MexAmerica on it.