It looks like Bray Wyatt may have been released for more than just his pay.
Bray Wyatt was released from the WWE last year in the wake of Wyatt’s WrestleMania storyline being dropped. Wyatt is one of most popular free agents in the world right now and due to that, many reports are coming out about the former Universal Champion. Wyatt most recently had a split personality gimmick, including The Fiend as a horrifying example of Wyatt’s talent.
Recently, reports have surfaced that was a belief backstage that The Fiend did more harm than good. Ringside News asked around about this situation and they were told that this is a shared belief backstage in WWE.
We were told that internally, “most everyone here agrees with the thought his character killed everyone he worked with.”
We were told that “he killed babyface Rollins and babyface Miz and there are analytics that document this.” A tenured member of the creative team also explained to us that Bray Wyatt saw himself as a new Undertaker, but there were dramatically different results after working with the Eater of Worlds.”
“He killed babyface Rollins and babyface Miz and there are analytics that document this. Plus, the push went to his head and he thought he was modern day Undertaker. Except once Taker got on top, he started making any other top star he worked with. Bray doesn’t know how to do that and the gimmick doesn’t lend to it.”
Ringside News Report
RSN also reported that Wyatt was released for several reasons, not only just his high salary.
“It was explained to us that Wyatt was released because, “he had a health issue that was being addressed, still getting 4 million a year while off, and was uncommunicative and uncooperative with WWE regarding the way his health issue was being addressed by doctors.”
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Time will tell if Wyatt will ever return to the WWE but by the looks of things it was not an applicable release from the company for the former Universal and WWE Champion.
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