Every Cinematic Wrestling Match Ever - Ranked!
8. The Wyatt Family Compound Brawl
Very much the forgotten child of both WWE's endeavors into these things and of Braun Strowman's entire career, the Wyatt Family Compound was arguably the first time the company turned proper cinematic production values onto a wrestling match.
Not good ones, mind you. The entire thing was all jumpcuts, shaking cameras, lens flares, and whatever else first-year film students usually throw in to try and disguise the fact they actually wrote the story the night before. This was WWE spending a lot of money just to make something look a bit cheaper.
Coming so soon after Hardy's infamous Final Deletion, the comparisons were as obvious as they were well-earned. WWE not even bothering with subtly by referring to the Wyatt family home as a "compound", it wouldn't have surprised anyone of Big E had thrown a small boat.
After brawling through the woods, the groups dangled over a car, through some shrubbery and even into a tree. With nobody able to get a clear advantage in the situation the area was suddenly surrounded by car headlights, and then a row of people, all in sheep masks, holding lanterns. Deciding discretion was possibly the better part of valour, The New Day just... left?
Rather than the payoff to a long-running feud, this encounter was merely part of the programme building to that year's Battleground where many had predicted the breakup of the New Day; Woods routinely looking like he was about to turn on the group with Wyatt in his ear. In the end, it was a routine victory for Bray and the Boyz, and everyone just got on with their lives.