10 WWE Star Making Moments That Changed Nothing
5. Bray Wyatt Wins The WWE Championship For The First Time (2017)
Long before The Eater of Worlds had the epiphany of splitting his psyche into that of a children's TV presenter and diabolical 'Fiend', Bray Wyatt was the company's most prolific producer of hot air.
Multiple feuds came and went with some of the biggest stars available, yet - despite routinely babbling a good game - Wyatt found himself on the losing end of anticlimactic feuds with the likes of John Cena, The Undertaker and Roman Reigns.
Incredibly, these numerous setbacks hadn't completely murdered the buzz surrounding Wyatt and after the 102938th revival of his Wyatt family on SmackDown Live, Wyatt found himself somehow holding the WWE Championship over his head at the end of Elimination Chamber 2017.
The seeds were clearly being planted for a (Royal Rumble winning) Randy Orton turn on Wyatt - with Orton becoming a part of the family in late 2016 - and when the trigger was finally pulled on the two's implosion, fans were left questioning the execution of the break-up.
A babyface Orton burned down Wyatt's compound (a heelish move, you could say) and forced Wyatt into accepting a WrestleMania 33 showdown between the former brethren.
Both the 'Mania match - which Wyatt lost - and their subsequent non-title House of Horrors sh*t-show nullified any further main event prospects for the former world champion.
Wyatt disappeared from the upper reaches of the card and WWE stuck to their usual big hitters (apart from the Jinder Mahal detour) from there on out. Re-emerging with The Fiend in 2019, he has since returned to obscurity, having wrestled only once in 2021.