Creative Has Nothing For You, Bray Wyatt

Remember Bray Wyatt?

He was on track to play Sister Abigail at WWE Tables, Ladders, and Chairs before that thing was dropped for no television reason. He returned prior to Survivor Series, lost to Jason Jordan, but attacked him after the match. The injury was bad enough that Jordan was pulled from Survivor Series.

No one mentioned it this past week on Raw.

Bray Wyatt, creative has nothing for you.

Once thought of as the next Undertaker, a man with mythological powers that could continue to re-invent himself with his words, Wyatt has turned into an online punchline. WrestleMania losses to John Cena and The Undertaker killed mystique of being a “great power” with “the whole world in his hands.” He was abandoned by his followers, left as a single man telling tales of folklore.

If a cult leader drinks the kool-aid in the woods by himself, was there ever really a cult?

The downfall of Bray Wyatt can be traced back to that WrestleMania bout against John Cena, when all his mind games were proven mindless in the face of Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect. He never really recovered from that and follow-up storylines didn’t exactly help matters.

Believe it or not, around this time last year, they managed to resuscitate Wyatt. He was given a new follower in the form of a viper and, in February, a piece of hardware he could proudly display above the fireplace in his cabin.

But, we all know what happened leading up to WrestleMania. The less said about the maggot-infested WrestleMania match between Wyatt and Randy Orton, the better. The House of Horrors rematch somehow made their first meeting look like Flair-Steamboat.

With a flick of a match, any momentum Wyatt gained at the end of 2016 and into 2017, was quickly burned to the ground.

His feud with Finn Balor was all over the place. They fought as men. Finn fought as a demon. Wyatt was going to fight as a woman. None of it made sense and it was dropped when Wyatt got sick.

While most of us had no desire to see Sister Abigail against Demon Finn Balor, dropping the entire story and not bringing it up again was a bad sign for Wyatt. Since he entered WWE, Sister Abigail had been an integral figure to his character. Wyatt has not only referenced his famed sister many times throughout his career, he named his finishing move after her.

They spent years building up the character. They burned her spirit. They resurrected that spirit. They revealed her. And, even though she just turned out to be Bray Wyatt in drag with a voice filter, they then forgot about her.

Wyatt returned without a mention of Sister Abigail or his match that wasn’t against Finn Balor.

And he returned to lose to Jason Jordan. The loss wasn’t that important, it was the post-match attack that stands out. Wyatt took out the leg of Jordan, creating doubt in the mind of Kurt Angle that his son would be able to compete at Survivor Series.

That doubt set up a chain of events that could lead all the way to WrestleMania.

Triple H replaced Jordan on Team Raw. He then turned on Kurt Angle, which only served to piss off Braun Strowman, a man who Wyatt brought into the WWE Universe. All of this appears to be setting up, at the very least, bouts between Strowman against Triple H and Angle against Triple H.

None of it would have happened without Wyatt’s post-match attack.

And yet, Jordan may as well have fallen down a flight of stairs because Wyatt’s name was not brought up once on Raw. Jordan didn’t watch revenge for Wyatt costing him the biggest match of his career, Angle didn’t punish him, Triple H or Stephanie didn’t thank him, Bray didn’t explain his reasoning by using way too many words. Nothing.

Everyone was angry over what took place at Survivor Series, but no one was angry at the man who started the domino effect.

Bray Wyatt has spent years trying to convince everyone that he’s the New Face of Fear or a God or that he has the whole world in his hands. When he finally made good on a promise, creative bailed.

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