7 Ups & 8 Downs From One Year Of Bray Wyatt’s Fiend In WWE

4. Goldberg

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Anyone who has read this writer's stuff over the years will know he's a WCW mega-fan. One capable of admitting the promotion's many flaws, but a mega-fan nonetheless. That makes it even more painful to reiterate something that was said in February: Goldberg squashing the 'Fiend' was counterproductive.

WWE did it anyway, because they saw more value in Goldberg vs. Roman Reigns at 'Mania 36 than Wyatt vs. Reigns. That's fair enough, but sacrificing Bray's masked character like they did was a huge error. It made him look like an inferior jobber who was incapable of hanging with a 53 year old (who'd sucked wind the last time he was in Saudi Arabia).

Again, where was the menace?

Goldberg wasn't the kind of worker who was ever going to sell for the 'Fiend' or show any kind of weakness, so he should never have been in there with him at all. Ending Wyatt's Universal Title run this way was awful.

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