Bray Wyatt: What Went Wrong?

The phrase "it has to get worse before it gets better" isn't one that can often be applied to professional wrestling. Regrettably, at the point at which a programme or performer skids off the rails, there's typically no return. At WrestleMania 33, Wyatt and Orton's feud didn't just derail, it destroyed. Bray - the man entering the biggest pay-per-view of the year as the company's joint-top titleholder - was rendered less than a corpse by the career-killing creation WWE devised. It's astonishing he wasn't corpsing himself during a match that descended into am-dram theatre quicker than his tenure swirled down the drain.

Maggots and other insects were transposed onto the canvas, presumably by Bray and presumably to unnerve Orton. Process all that, in kayfabe, for even a fleeting moment. Wyatt's supernatural powers extended to controlling the lighting rig and some projection hardware hanging above the ring. Think of the actual damage he could do with those powers instead of going to the trouble of filming or paying for the rights to footage of scurrying insects. Think about anything - or don't, because if you do, Bray Wyatt is a completely f*cked entity. A useless, unwashed cretin capable of even less than he promises to his deluded followers. He was here - Orton no-sold the bullsh*t and dropped him with a single RKO in 10:30.

Wyatt was over. And not like that. If only this feud was.

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