How WWE Missed A HUGE Opportunity With The Fiend Bray Wyatt

We have come full circle on the Bray Wyatt takes.

In 2017, when The Fiend wasn't even a buzzard sock puppet in a box yet, Wyatt's gimmick was increasingly starting to look like WWE's worst modern creation. And this wasn't just from the nit-picky few that could probably come up with 10 things off the top of their head. Most of the superfans had simply stopped enjoying it as much. Matt Hardy's noble attempt to recover it peaked with their union and victory at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans, but the comparison between how the gimmick had gone down in the same city four years earlier was depressing.

Wyatt was 1a to Daniel Bryan's 1 that weekend in 2014, an unshakable crowd favourite that had captured the imagination of the hundreds (maybe more) that had dressed in full Wyatt Family garb for the event. His loss to John Cena - itself a crucial part in the amazing aforementioned WrestleMania 36 encounter - wasn't the final nail in the coffin but it wasn't the first either. WWE had teased their inability to do this sort of sh*t anymore, no matter how much people craved a new Undertaker.

Bray Wyatt was never and never will be a new Undertaker, but nor is Aliester Black, nor Karrion Kross or whomever kills the lights during their entrance. The role is an impossible one. The best chance Wyatt had to be "new" anything was when he redbuted in 2019, and they f*cked that. Twice, they f*cked it. And hard. And is it any coincidence that both times were related to his quest for Universal Championship glory as well?

That thing is cursed, and more powerful than any of Wyatt's magic tricks...

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