10 WWE Fates Worse Than Burial

2. Being The Fiend

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Bray Wyatt's most recent losses can't count as burials no matter how much they look like them, because WWE loves easy money enough to keep exhuming the corpse.

He was back on television the night after Alexa Bliss and a single RKO put him down harder than being burned alive, just as he was there to point at a WrestleMania sign the night after a squash loss to Bill Goldberg and as he was after taking such a tremendous beating from Seth Rollins that the referee had to stop the match.

Bray Wyatt's been toasted for years as a great mind beyond the tenets of the wrestling business, but maybe the opposite is true and he's in fact figured out the only way to get proper proper rich in this era of no pay-per-view payoffs and castrated contracts.

The Fiend is one of the company's best ever merch movers, with that abomination of a title belt almost luxuriating in the absurdity of that. "Pin Me, Pay Me" was the mantra of Al Snow's Job Squad, but it's Wyatt that's worked out how to use his head.

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