WWE: 10 Most Unoriginal Aspects Of The Fiend
4. Swamp Match Finish
‘The Fiend’ persona was reminiscent of slasher villains such as Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Pennywise from the start. He borrowed certain tropes such as slowly stalking victims before changing them forever and driving them mad with his maniacal clownish behavior. For all that Wyatt borrowed to construct ‘The Fiend,’ he also made sure to execute each idea with his personal touch. Aside from a few hiccups, this formula has made him a mainstay on WWE programming.
The same was not said of the Swamp Fight with Braun Strowman during The Horror Show at Extreme Rules.
The fight itself had little fighting in it. Instead, it was a cinematic bout leaning heavily on drama and suspense with mind-boggling oddities such as Strowman facing a handful of extras, ‘Wyatt Family’ Braun Strowman (the difference between the two being a shirt), and hallucinating about Alexa Bliss.
What the Swamp Fight had a lot of were ideas from other horror shows. The contest's entire closing segment was a WWE Studios version of Friday the 13th Part III down to the bits with the rowboat and ‘The Fiend’ emerging from the waters to drown ‘The Monster Among Men.’ There have been many callbacks to horror stories that influenced Wyatt. Still, the Swamp Fight went a step further by lifting direct moments from the Jason film.