1. Bray Wyatt Should Be Repeatedly Beating Chris Jericho Until His Persona Evolves
There is absolutely no good reason whatsoever why Chris Jericho needed to defeat Bray Wyatt at WWE Battleground. Just as Mark Calaway went on an unprecedented undefeated streak when defining his persona as The Undertaker that led him to the WWF Championship in 1991, Wyatt should be similarly groomed as the WWE's next "Undertaker style" persona. A "moral compass of the company"-type character, both Wyatt's abilities as an in (and out of the)-ring competitor make him uniquely able to connect with audiences and excel as a wrestler in a manner similar to the now largely semi-retired Undertaker. Leading up to matches at Wrestlemania VII and Wrestlemania VIII with (similar to Jericho) long-beloved and established talents Jimmy Snuka and Jake Roberts, The Undertaker was never cleanly defeated on television by the likes of Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, Sid Justice, Kamala and Yokozuna. Similarly - though not seven feet tall and 300-plus pounds - Bray Wyatt deserves to beat Jericho until Jericho's persona shifts into that of not an "uber cool rock star," but more "a once larger-than-life veteran with one good fight left in him to take on Wyatt." Wyatt wrestling a Chris Jericho beaten to the brink of likely needing to retire and losing against Jericho, works. With Jericho as a part-time wrestler at best, him getting the giant blow-off win as Wyatt gets the three or four other smaller wins to build his credibility is a solid idea. With Wyatt's persona not in any way needing wins and losses to garner crowd support and interest, Wyatt losing "the big one" doesn't really even ultimately matter at all.
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.
