all I can say is my boys Dean and Bray held the WWE Title. Even if it was for a short period of time, they can never take that away from them.
Both guys are huge what-ifs to me in WWE, but this is the Bray thread, so I'll go with just him.
I think there have been SO many opportunities to make him LEGIT AS f*** that WWE just never, ever pulled the trigger on and I don't know why.
First you had him target Bryan in 2013. I think there were two ways to go about this:
1) Wyatt going over Bryan at the Rumble should have led to more. Not a Cena program that he lost and had his momentum killed in. He should have pinned Bryan clean at the Rumble, and then that Shield match should have happened at Wrestlemania with the exact same ending: Wyatt pinning Reigns. The Wyatt Family should have been the cause of The Shield split, and Wyatt should have been on path to win the WWE Title that year.
2) "The devil made me do it" when he was attacking Bryan. The devil should have been Triple H. The payoff should have been Bray Wyatt vs. Triple H at Wrestlemania that year with Wyatt going over to "take down the machine." Wyatt should have taken out Triple H to clear the path for Bryan. Bryan would have still joined The Wyatt Family, but instead, Bryan would have still be at the forefront. The story here? Wyatt pins Bryan at the Rumble (even though Bryan is a member of the family), and Bryan enters the Rumble and wins. The next time, Triple H instructs Wyatt to destroy Bryan, but Wyatt destroys Triple H instead. Wyatt reveals that Bryan has had the machine try to tear him down, but Wyatt is trying to get Bryan to see the light. Bryan can't fight The Authority and The Shield on his own, so he had to bring him into the family. Wyatt wants Bryan to tear down the machine with him. Wyatt goes over Triple H, Bryan goes over Orton and Batista and wins the WWE Title to cap off the story.
Then you have that Cena program? Wyatt should have won. Easily. It's not even a debate. Wyatt was white hot, he came off clean pins over Bryan and Reigns. Why is he losing to Cena the way he did? Wyatt should have won the program. Simple as that.
Then you have The Undertaker program? I don't think Lesnar should have ended the streak. It should have been Wyatt. You had a mystical figure that could have been your modern day Undertaker. He's agile, he's quick, he's powerful, he's a threat, and he's quite possibly the greatest mic talker of this generation, the only one who can debate it is Dean Ambrose. Wyatt should have ended the streak if you were going to do that. Even if Lesnar had to end it, Wyatt should have still won that WM match vs. Taker. That was a blatant slap in the face to Bray Wyatt to build the entire program on his own without Undertaker showing up once and then just to lose in a 10-minute match.
When Triple H was holding the title and Wyatt teased going after HHH and the title? ANOTHER CHANCE BLOWN. The fans were white hot for Dean at this time, but Bray was way more over than Roman here too, probably #2 behind Dean, and him teasing the title chase got a huge pop. Wyatt vs. HHH should have absolutely been a thing.
Wyatt vs. Lesnar? Wyatt should have won. This was supposed to happen but it was brushed aside for Ambrose to have the match instead. Wyatt should have had this match at some point and gone over.
And the death knell for Bray's momentum? The Orton program. It was SO. f***ING. GOOD. It was perfect. They had the perfect chance to reunite The Wyatt Family and keep Bray holding the WWE Title. When Orton burned down that compound, it was the end. Rowan tried salvaging it on Twitter with his videos dragging a body out of the compound, and in my heart of hearts I was hoping "holy f***, Rowan saved Abigail, Wyatt is going to admit he was wrong to Harper, and they're going to reunite at Wrestlemania and the Viper is going to have its head cut off." Nope. They had the worst Wrestlemania title match, possibly ever, and Orton won in 10 minutes or whatever it was. That was the end of Wyatt. He disappeared, almost became a transvestite but was saved by the mumps, then had that program with Matt, and he became a tag team guy.
This is a guy who SHOULD have had an unstoppable, undefeated run. This is a guy who should have had victories over Cena, Lesnar, Taker, HHH, Reigns, Bryan, Orton, etc., had a long ass reign with the WWE championship and all of that. Wyatt could have been salvaged after the Cena program if he were the handpicked guy to go over Lesnar. He could have been salvaged at many different points, but the Orton loss killed him. This was a time where Cena even tried paying it back to Wyatt by eating two consecutive clean pins to him in three nights, but WWE couldn't help themselves and they had to go with Orton... and then f***ing Mahal.
I want to hold out hope that they'll do things right when they bring him back this time around, but I've had my hopes up way too much for Wyatt and have always had them stomped on that now I just know better. They're never going to treat him or push him like they should, and he'll never be able to be salvaged like he could have been.
