5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Oct 19)
4. We Have Finally Learned The Conclusive Answer To "Was Bray Wyatt Ever Any Good?"
Remember Alex Riley?
Back in 2015, in a bid to reinvent himself, he adopted a new, rage-fuelled persona. He was angry about his non-wrestling role in NXT, and thus unleashed this rage in the ring!
Now, NXT Season 2 Alex Riley was a joy - he was about the only guy told to talk without bullet points to talk himself into getting over - but this was horrendously cheesy stuff. He once Photoshopped himself behind a jail cell on Twitter to convey said rage, looking for all the world to see like your first-ever 13 year-old SmackDown Vs. RAW CAW. He did inspire that strange, awful trend of onscreen SmackDown graphics earlier this year, but beyond that, this stuff was fairly embarrassing, and Riley hasn't orbited WWE since.
Bray Wyatt has this week stolen his crown as the Ryback of Twitter.
For years, it was difficult to tell if Wyatt was a genuine prospect done dirty by WWE, or a spouter of utter gibberish more New Black Scorpion than New Undertaker. Wyatt delivered his haunting promos with a certain hypnotic charisma, and yet, can you remember anything he ever said that wasn't a catchphrase?
Removed from the TV radar, with WWE presumably concocting a plan for his return - which will doubtlessly manifest as targeting No Way Jose and referring to himself as God - Wyatt has gone full Riley, and booked his own stuff.
You never go full Riley.
In a series of tweets purportedly sent by his psychiatrist from an asylum, Wyatt - "Subject" - "spews threats at our staff in multiple languages".
That didn't get Cesaro over in 2012. Try again.
"Subject believes God as well as several other entities speak to him directly."
Oh dear. Wyatt's idea to get over is a mental patient gimmick, the likes of which Jim Herd would have deemed too cheesy. In 1990.
Did WWE creative do Bray Wyatt dirty? On this evidence, they were doing him a bloody favour.