An absolute shame. I'm so sorry to anyone rocked by this announcement.
Use this space to talk about your favourite Bray moment or whatever you want. As well, let's use this as a mega thread for news related to his passing. Please post any Twitter links or articles about this tragedy here.
Terry Funk was sad and heartbreaking but not unexpected due to his health issues and age. Bray Wyatt on the other hand is tragic and heartbreaking, he was young and has small children, and this is hard. I hated The Fiend character, but loved Swamp Wyatt, I really hate there won't be a new character coming, and hope his family weathers this storm well.
Fuck, someone posted the clip (timestamp is 5:42 if it fucks up) where Booker and Brad learn about his passing live during their podcast. The look on Bookers face is rough and about what mine was.
The OG swamp cult Wyatts are now one of the great “what-ifs” of modern wrestling. For as much as Bray tried some interesting angles in his last few years, terrible booking and the lack of a stable to back him up made it fall flat. The original trio had a magic to it that none of the three ever quite recaptured on their own: Bray was the mouthpiece and had great ideas, Brodie grounded it, giving it psychological depth and deranged zeal, and Erick was the muscle who always seemed like he had his own motives for following. It felt real in a way that it never did when it was just Bray alone. The Wyatt Family got me back into wrestling, and it’s extememely sad that circumstances conspired to separate them before they could reach their full potnential together. RIP Bray and Brodie.
Haven't watched wrestling in many years. But Bray was always a badass. His entrance was epic, his characters were fantastic and frightening, and his story telling was larger than life. RIP.
Ugh this is not what I needed to hear today. I didn’t really watch WWE but I did know if the Wyatt Family stuff from social and he was just smashing at what he did.
For goddess sake please be with Erik Rowan right now because I can only imagine what he’s going through losing both of his close partners and friends so soon. 😭😭😭
Bray, Finn, and Becky are the three wrestlers that brought me back to wrestling after being out since the early 00s. Bray specifically felt like the guy that “got it” based on what I liked about wrestling growing up (plus we are the same age). He got the story telling, he wanted to be a supernatural entity, he loved the showmanship of the business and respected it. I am so sad that we will never get Bray, Windham, the top guy. But in my book he is, was, and always will be a top guy.
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