Did Bray Wyatt Warn Us About The Arrival of The Fiend FOUR YEARS AGO?!

[DaylitoJames]

Brehs I'm on youtube just jumping around on videos and on the side I see a random recommended video and it's a video that I haven't seen in quite some time. it's a video from WWE.com and it's Bray Wyatt back when he was "cult leader" status. I remember back during his early arrival to the main roster he was posting random stories about his past... but this video that was posted 4 years ago was very interesting in rewatching:

Bray told us about the existence of The Fiend four years ago and described everything about him that we see today and we didn't listen to him. What we see Bray doing now is not a reboot of his character.... but it's a continuation of the world he built long time ago. This might rival the Impact Wrestling "Broken Matt Saga" in a lot of ways with this long term storytelling...

 

[THE 101]

 

[Rell Lauren]

Genius.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

good find

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

This might rival the Impact Wrestling "Broken Matt Saga" in a lot of ways with this long term storytelling...

That's a huge ask.

From what I've heard of The Fiend, it just adds to Bray's story. He added depth to it at a time when Vince was preoccupied with other wrestlers.

The Broken Matt Hardy storyline pulled pretty much everyone in TNA at the time into it, and presented them through the prism of that character. I remember one show where they had Lashley and Edwards fighting for the world title in the background, while Matt and them were doing the Hardy stuff. That's how important it was to the company

There's no way Vince is letting Bray undo a bunch of the characters that he created to get Pennywyatt over.

Heyman, on the other hand...

 

[ALTRUISM]

So the presence of The Fiend was always inside Bray and the only thing keeping him together was Abigail. Abigail later passes and becomes the cabin to sustain Bray. Orton later destroys the cabin, killing that restraint, and Bray falls into the Lake of Reincarnation to create the distorted being we have now.
Long-term storytelling

 

[Black Adam]

Well I'll be damned

 

[HipHopStan]

There's a man in the woods....

 

[Silkk]

Bray said a lot of shyt for a lot of years

 

[Champagne Kudo]

I hope he warned yall about how Vince is about to ruin this whole thing

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

I hope he warned yall about how Vince is about to ruin this whole thing

 

[BrehWyatt]

He's been on Twitter claiming that there's a ton of hidden messages going on with his stuff.

That said, that's one hell of a video in OP and Bray Wyatt might actually be a genius in this specific realm.

 

[puppetmaster]

Bray legit understands his character and it’s arcs. That much is obvious. Creative just likes to fail him when he needs a win

 

[BrehWyatt]

Bray legit understands his character and it’s arcs. That much is obvious. Creative just likes to fail him when he needs a win

To me, the issue with that lies with the Jake Roberts syndrome. To where Roberts' character work and portrayal -- along with the kayfabe strength of the DDT -- was handled so well, that he never really needed big wins (i.e. titles) to justify himself as a true threat.

A lot of people -- some of us included -- have seen Bray as such. But in today's times, look at the champions. Realistic characters and so on. Bray is an outlier with the gimmick and on the strength of that alone, should win most every high-profile feud he's ever involved in. Because he's really the only one sans Finn Balor who is said to draw upon some kind of supernatural strength, power, etc. to get to where he wants to go.

But... as we've seen, when Balor goes Demon -- and unlike Bray, nothing changes about Finn sans appearance and a couple power moves here or there -- not only does he win, he flat dominates people and he wins titles. For this Bray thing to really work, he needs similar treatment. Summerslam was a great start.

That's what bothers me so much about the WWE. As much as they like to stick with what works (read: what Vince thinks will work), there are SEVERAL existing blueprints that, had they been executed -- with slight alterations for the character/current times -- would have gotten people over well before they did.

It shouldn't have taken Roman Reigns beating cancer to finally be accepted as a face when the Batista blueprint was right there.

The Undertaker blueprint exists. Apply it to Bray Wyatt.

The Revival shouldn't be floundering like this when the Usos/New Day JUST SHOWED what main roster tag wrestling could be if you just gave them the platform and fell back.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]