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Who Here is Sick of Bray Wyatt?

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#1 ·
I was just rewatching RAW and I couldn't help but realize that my mind began to wander as Bray Wyatt cut his promo. The thing is, when he debuted in 2013 The Wyatt Family showed so much promise. I to this day believe that his feud with Daniel Bryan was the best and will be the best of his career. The promos he cut back then were enticing and you actually listened to what he said. It was something we hadn't seen in WWE for years. He was a real throwback to the styles of Jake Roberts and early Goldust. I feel they pulled the trigger on him facing Cena too early and same for the break up but don't give me that "it's creative's fault for shit booking" when HHH is in love with the Bray character. Meaning Bray should be able to have great influence on his character, he's not some undercard scrub who they'd laugh at with even a mention of a tweak like a Jack Swagger.

Some people say it's because overly gimmicky personas do not fair well with modern crowds which is complete crap. Why did The Undertaker fair so well over the years? I mean let's be honest, the concept of an undead wrestler has little to no depth for one and not to mention his character would have to be matched against certain wrestlers to mesh into good feuds. So why did he flourish? Three simple words. Evolution of Character. He debuted as the Western Mortician and his entire first year was an introduction to the people and used to build his credibility as it should have. What happened soon after that first year? He evolved and turned face. When he made his return in 1994 he had another tweak, he became "The Deadman" complete with a tweaked entrance and new attire, as well as showing an actual personality somewhat rather than just being a walking corpse. 2 years later he became this gothic biker which would later become the lord of darkness. He constantly changed his attire, and became more vocal. Another 2 years later in 1998 he began arguably his best year. 1998 was the most confusing but one of the most fun years of his career. Not one person watching that year could tell whether he was heel or face and would soon become full heel late that year forming the Ministry of Darkness.

I'll just leave The Undertaker's career at that. Point being, he had constant changes to his character. Other examples, look at Mankind. He was in a rut until they morphed him into what he was in the Attitude era. This is not just with overly gimmicky wrestlers, it's with everyone but the more theatrical they are the more necessary gimmick tweaks become. Gimmicks like Austin's don't need them. Bray's do, desperately and now that we have 4+ shows a week, they need to evolve at a faster pace. Bray is cutting the same promos he's been cutting for 3 years now. They're not interesting, they're not exciting, they're not terrifying. In the beginning they were somewhat "chilling" because this guy was starting a cult. Now it's just a chubby guy in a fedora and a Hawaiian shirt with no direction and an annoyingly unnecessary laugh. He used to be one of my favorites. Now I'm sick of him.

It seems all my favorites of 2013/2014, I'm sick and tired of seeing. Ambrose, Rollins, Bray, Neville, Rusev, Bad News Barrett. WWE has successfully managed to build up their next wave of stars to do a clean sweep and yank the rug out from each and every one of them. The only ones who seem to be doing well are Reigns and in my opinion Sheamus. Why may that be you suppose? Probably because their characters have evolved over the last year.
 
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#58 ·
He lost his aura for a while but this Reigns feud has been pretty good for him. He's getting his mojo back and I've actually got some interest in him again.

He's still a shadow of himself from 2013 though, when he was fresh and intriguing.


:lel One of my favorite Botchedspot's.
 
#16 ·
Bray Wyatt is still the best mic worker in WWE, and cuts AMAZING promos weekly. Chalk it up to people's ADHD or whatever if they don't like them they just are not listening or care to appreciate what hes doing. :p WWE really have a big chance to make The Wyatt Family a huge gamechanging thing this time if done right with new members and showing their dominance over all the divisions at the same time pushing alot of talent. Bray Wyatt the Charles Manson of WWE is an amazing character unlike anything else we have or will have for a long time, your loss if you don't like him anymore I respect your opinion but I choose to FOLLLOW THE BUZZZZZARDS on this ride because Bray Wyatt is one of the very best.
 
#39 ·
Not only that but the things he talks about are legit issues in society and people don't like what's real so of course most of it will be "Jibberish". You can even hear most of the crowd booing how things actually work, either out of sher ignorance or denial. I love his promos.
 
#5 ·
Bray lost momentum after Mania last year. The whole feud with Reigns has actually made me take more interest in him. His promos are less rambling and more meaningful.

"Your mommies and daddies don't love you." - Bray Wyatt.
 
#9 · (Edited)
I can never take Bray Wyatt seriously because I have seen him as "Husky Harris". If they somehow used his Husky Harris days for the backstory of his Bray Wyatt character (like they did in case of Festus/Luke Gallows) then maybe I would be able to take him seriously.

- I don't like characters that blatantly insult my intelligence

- I am not a fan of overly gimmicky characters

- His promos are long-winded sophomoric pseudo-intellectual gibberish
 
#11 ·
I've been skipping Wyatt family and Bray Wyatt segments and matches since like a month into his run. I find him extremely annoying, and I can't take one word of his promos. There's nothing else in WWE that I feel so strongly about not watching, nor has there ever been.
 
#13 · (Edited)
Some of this ramblings are quite well-written, and Wyatt does better on the mic than he gets credit for due, not to mention his use of words that the audience has to quickly Google so they can keep up. However, that's his only characteristic. His rivalries mean nothing when you consider that all of his obscure messages and threats land in him a terrible cycle of foreshadowing -> job -> find new victim -> repeat. He's yet to successfully recruit anyone (Bryan lasted 5 minutes). After over a year, that's some shoddy cult workmanship.

To add, having to realign himself with Harper was a desperate act of two falling gimmicks keeping each other afloat in an age where the company can only juggle two gimmicks at a time.
 
#14 ·
His promos bores the hell outta me. Must say his promos in the Reigns has been some of his best but still boring.
 
#21 ·
OP, it wasn't just the evolution of the Undertaker's character that made him flourish over the years. A lot of it had to do with his booking and the other wrestlers actually selling the character by acting scared of him whenever he was around. Whenever he faced a cocky "im too cool" character he would kick their ass to make believers out of them. Not to mention he was the OG of part timer special attractions without them ever having to say he was and he had so many theatrics that just added more depth to his character. I don't think I'm sick of Bray yet. He's still early in his career and I think if they treated him properly he would win everyone over again.
 
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