4 genius things that prove Bray Wyatt becoming The Fiend was WWE's plan all along

#1. Wyatt himself has hinted he is 'finishing something he started a long time ago'

Bray Wyatt wants to finish what he started

If all of the other points haven't convinced you that The Fiend may be one of the greatest examples of long-term storytelling that professional wrestling has ever seen, then why not accept it from the horse's mouth, Wyatt himself!

This year I’m gonna finish everything I started so long ago. It’s me. It’s always been me. Yowie Wowie to the people

— Bray Wyatt (@WWEBrayWyatt) June 25, 2019

As you can see, Wyatt is telling people outright that he started this ages ago, and again alluding to the fact that he was actually The Fiend the whole time. Everything else we've seen - from Axel Mulligan, to Husky Harris to Bray Wyatt and now the Fiend - has simply been steps in a larger story.

We've already seen how Wyatt laid out the blueprints for the Firefly Funhouse episodes, and we also saw how Wyatt told us exactly what the Fiend was and what it looked like and then explained in great detail how Wyatt evolved into the Fiend.

Just take the exercise episode of Firefly Funhouse for example, where Bray Wyatt introduces a new puppet Huskus the Pig Boy, and then Wyatt tells Huskus he needs to take better care of himself because one day all this excessiveness and gluttony is going to come back and bite him on the tail. He then says 'One day you could be great, one day people are going to tell you, you're a genius'

He's telling his past self Husky Harris that he's going to be considered great and a genius, and hopefully his SummerSlam debut proved to everyone that The Fiend is going to be great and this article has proven to everyone that the whole Fiend storyline is a work of genius long-term storytelling. After all, Wyatt has had too much time to think,

I want to make you smile. I’m glad I have. But please don’t be silly enough to forget what I can do, when I want to. When will you all learn to never doubt me?What we do from now on will change everything. Promise. Ive had too much time to think. No mistakes. #

— Bray Wyatt (@WWEBrayWyatt) June 12, 2019

What's incredible, especially in this day and age of instant gratification. It seems that Wyatt's incredibly slow-burn, long-form storyline is paying off.

The WWE has often been known to repackage superstars and more often than not, these have failed owing to how badly they get executed. But in this case, it is a stroke of genius and Wyatt has done complete justice both backstage and in the ring to deliver the gimmick.

I can't wait to see what happens next!

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