When they debuted in mid-2013, the Wyatt Family was a unique group of heels, a backwoods cult-like group that entered in darkness, with their leader speaking in cryptic messages. Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan instantly added three big men to the WWE roster who looked imposing and had the potential to dominate, much like another trio called up from NXT. Wyatt and his cryptic promos were something fresh on Raw, and it turned out that the Harper and Rowan made for a pretty good tag team, mostly on the strength of Harpers surprising versatility in the ring. They Wyatts racked off several really good matches in the tag team division, but sadly tag team gold eluded them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nQuETm4gYY Bray, meanwhile, built an image of a cult leader that would later serve him well as he tried to recruit Daniel Bryan (temporarily successful) and to topple John Cena and the Undertaker. The Wyatts have separated as a unit, but their first few months were full of potential and had fans excited.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
