Since 2015, Bray Wyatt has competed in 246 matches and been victorious in 39 of them. In 2016 alone, Wyatt has only won 11 of his 81 matches. Given this fact, the WWE still tries to sell their audience on the idea that Bray Wyatt is a “God”. They constantly refer to Wyatt as “the face of fear” and JBL always raves about everyone one of Wyatt’s promos.
A few weeks ago at Backlash, Bray Wyatt was supposed to face off against Randy Orton. Unfortunately, Orton was unable to compete due to the concussion he suffered during his match against Brock Lesnar at Summerslam. The WWE smartly had Wyatt attack Orton backstage as an excuse to not have the match. Wyatt came down to the ring and forced the ring announcer to proclaim him as the winner of a match that never took place.
A random No Holds Barred match was then made between Kane and Bray Wyatt. Bray Wyatt got in some offense but Kane actually controlled the majority of the match. The finish of the match saw Randy Orton coming down to the ring and hitting an RKO on Wyatt. Kane then followed this up with a Chokeslam and won the match. Kane was Chokeslamming someone named The Milk Man on Smackdown before Backlash, now he was defeating the “Eater of Worlds” on a PPV. Kane has also done absolutely nothing since defeating Wyatt.
Fast forward to today. No Mercy is on the horizon and Orton and Wyatt will finally have their match. Last night on the greatest Smackdown of all time according to the comment section, Wyatt tried to play mind-games with Orton. He set up a maze backstage with words on the arena walls. “Predator or Prey” and “I am a God” were written all over the place. Erick Rowan observed Orton as he walked around backstage. Orton almost opened a door. It was just riveting television.
Smackdown opened up with Orton stating that Wyatt was afraid of him. By the end of the night, that was proven to be true. Orton confronted Wyatt backstage with a sheep mask on and Wyatt took off running. Orton then sang that he has got the whole world in his hands and the crowd sang along. Thus, Wyatt was once again proven to be a coward. It would be astonishing if Wyatt somehow defeated Orton clean at No Mercy. If he does win it will be due to outside interference, which is fine. I just don’t understand how anyone can view Wyatt as a monster or a “God” anymore. The WWE seems to be booking Bo Dallas as a more dominant figure than Bray Wyatt.
Do you think Wyatt will win at No Mercy and finally get back on track? Or will Wyatt once again lose and go continue to cut ultimately meaningless promos every week? Dolph Ziggler obviously has the highest stakes at No Mercy but I think this is a match/feud that Wyatt really needs to win.
