13 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About WrestleMania 31
5. What Happens If Bray Wyatt Loses?
Bray Wyatt can't lose to The Undertaker at Wrestlemania because people don't like to have their belief in real-life prophets turn out to be all for naught. Unlike Mordecai, Kane, or any other slightly mystical performer put up against The Undertaker in recent memory, neither Bray Wyatt nor Brock Lesnar (or CM Punk you could say) were "false prophets." On some level, The Undertaker should be 20-2 headed into this one, with his career on the line versus Wyatt in a casket match. But that's not happening. Instead, Bray's hitting all of the right notes and pushing all of the right buttons against a tired old man who appears to not have the will left in him to fight. A solution to all of this? Bray Wyatt versus Mark Calaway. Yep, Taker buries "The Undertaker" persona, and instead walks out like an old west outlaw in his duster coat, cowboy hat, jeans, biker boots and MMA gloves. A little bit of biker Taker, a little bit of classic Taker and a whole lot of a pissed off old man who is the living and breathing incarnation of every great Johnny Cash song ever. That guy beating up Bray Wyatt and then getting rolled into a casket? Awesome. Everyone gets over. Instead, it's a young devil against an old devil and the young devil damned sure can't take a loss.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.