10 WWE SummerSlam 2017 Impulse Reactions

4. Why-att?

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Bray Wyatt f*cked everything up yet again, because he is still without question WWE's worst modern creation.

What even is he anymore? What does he want? In a rarity, all of his mythical rabble rousing looked to have actually worked on Monday Night Raw, when he beat Finn Bálor clean in the middle six days before their planned SummerSlam encounter. Imagine Bray actually just leaving the building that night, then coming back to address his 'fireflies' the following week to say 'Look! My bullsh*t actually worked for once! Now let's have a run at Lesnar'. He'd probably drag out over twenty meaningless metaphors of course, but you get the jist.

Nah, not the 'Eater Of Worlds'. He poured the viscous acidic condiment over Finn's head just to really nark him. To trigger 'The Demon'. The very persona that Finn needs to be the best version of himself. Why (other than because he's plainly as thick as stuff he poured out of that bucket) would Wyatt want that? And why would he then be surprised when Finn not only unleashes the beast, but also is then completely unfazed by his chicken-in-a-basket hijinks?

The match was rubbish because Wyatt ones usually are. Finn hit about 40 slingblades and beat him with the Coup De Grace after no-selling the Spider Walk. It had no insects projected on the canvas this time at least, but weirdly, it sounded like a collection of crickets crept into the arena every time Bray was on offence.

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