How WWE Should Bring Back Bray Wyatt

Alexa Bliss The Fiend
WWE

But that didn't work either.

Half decent matches with Daniel Bryan weren't footling anybody about how exactly they succeeded, a loss to Goldberg was an unrecoverable humbling, and with the improbable-yet-incredible exception of the Firefly Fun House match against John Cena at WrestleMania 36, The Fiend's 2020 was just another pandemic era disaster in a period rich in such calamities.

The return of Roman Reigns at SummerSlam existed mostly to put Wyatt and Universal Champion Braun Strowman in the mud, but WWE had already done that by booking them in a risible swamp fight a month earlier. 'The Head Of The Table' kicked off his as-yet-unfinished Universal Championship reign a week after his return, and Fiend's pivot to Randy Orton via the corruption of Alexa Bliss made for months of heavily parodied nonsense between the three.

That the aforementioned immolation concluded with Orton winning the feud at WrestleMania 37 said just about everything, and the 5:50 runtime said the rest. Windham Rotunda was released three months later without wrestling for the company again, and his legions of fans have bargained for his theoretical return ever since.

In light of enormous structural changes within WWE, they surely won't be waiting much longer.

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