4 Times that Bray Wyatt eerily predicted the WWE future and got it right

Bray Wyatt returned to WWE programming for the first time in eight months when he appeared on the April 22 episode of Monday Night Raw.

The former WWE champion’s tag partnership with Matt Hardy came to an end in August 2018 and there had been contrasting reports ever since about when he could finally come back to television.

Now, after a long wait, the WWE Universe finally saw Wyatt on their screens again this week when he sported a new look and spoke enthusiastically about his troubled past during a segment titled “Firefly Fun House”.

Wyatt’s evil cult leader gimmick was gone, while he was a completely different character to the one we saw during the “Deleters of Worlds” phase of his career with Hardy. Now, it appears, he is a changed man who has new Fun House friends (Mercy The Buzzard and Pammy The Witch) to remind him of the person he used to be.

As ever with Wyatt, you can never be sure what is going to happen next. Or, more importantly, what he is going to say next, as the former Wyatt Family leader has gained a reputation for himself as one of the best talkers on the mic in modern-day WWE.

In this article, we decided to do a bit of research into Wyatt’s promos to find four instances where he has eerily predicted the WWE future and, incredibly, actually got it right.

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#4 He warned everyone about his first storyline a year in advance

Back in Bray Wyatt’s days in FCW in 2012, he told a story during a backstage promo about when he was taken out of school at the age of eight by his dad. He explained that his dad was the captain of his own shrimp boat and one day his boat caught on fire, sinking him down into the sea.

Turning his attention to his future in-ring rivals, Wyatt said he is going to take pleasure in watching his first opponent burn, just like his dad.

“I am better than you all. I wouldn’t wanna be that guy, I wouldn’t wanna be that guy, that first guy that has to get in the ring with me, man. I wouldn’t wanna be you, because I am going to take pleasure in watching you burn, man… just like my daddy.”

At the time, this probably felt like just another promo. In hindsight, it turned out that Wyatt’s premonition was accurate, as he defeated his first main-roster opponent, Kane, in an inferno match at SummerSlam 2013 with the ring surrounded by flames.

#3 He envisaged Ryback’s departure

Following his WrestleMania 31 defeat to The Undertaker, Bray Wyatt spoke in riddles as he cut mysterious promos about an unnamed Superstar. After a couple of weeks, it turned out that Ryback was the man who he had been referring to.

During an exchange of words prior to their encounter at Payback 2015, Ryback passionately explained how he wanted to be a “hero” to all the children in the audience, but Wyatt saw through his rival and described him as a “false idol”.

“This human world makes human monsters. You, you paint yourself as an untouchable force but I can see beneath the surface. You’re nothing more than a scared little boy, deathly afraid that people will see through your facade, expose your failures.”

Wyatt went on to add that Ryback would soon “fade away”, and that’s exactly what happened one year later when the former Intercontinental champion ended his 12-year association with WWE by leaving the company.

“I’m going to tell you a little secret, friend. Everything you love, everything that you are afraid to lose, is all going to fade away. And in time, friend, so will you.”

#2 He said the world must burn to be rebuilt in his image

In May 2014, Bray Wyatt was involved in one of the most interesting WWE feuds of the year with John Cena. During their back-and-forth promos, Wyatt agreed with his rival's assessment that he is a “monster” and that he wishes “to watch the world burn”.

Interestingly, after addressing the second point, the former Wyatt Family leader expanded further by explaining that, in his eyes, the world must be burned down so that it can be reborn “in the image of Wyatt”.

“John Cena tells all of you that I am a monster, and he is right. I am a monster, and oh how cruel I can be. He would also have you believe that my message, my honourable message, is nothing but lies and that I only wish to watch the world burn. I have to give it to you, John, you’re right again. I do wish to watch this world burn. I wish to watch it burn as a farmer watches his spoiled crops burn so they may rise up again. This world must be burned down so that it can be reborn. And it will be reborn in my image, the image of Wyatt.”

Three years on from this promo, Wyatt’s world did indeed burn down when Randy Orton set fire to the Wyatt Family Compound, including Sister Abigail’s grave, and Wyatt’s image has since been reborn following his return in the “Firefly Fun House” segment on Raw.

#1 He saw the monster in Daniel Bryan before everyone else

Daniel Bryan cemented his status as one of the most popular WWE babyfaces of the decade during the eight-month build-up to his WWE World Heavyweight Championship triumph at WrestleMania 30.

In amongst his battles with Triple H, Randy Orton and the rest of The Authority, Bryan was involved in a memorable feud with Bray Wyatt in which he briefly became a brainwashed member of The Wyatt Family.

Wyatt explained during one particular promo on Raw in December 2013 how he could see the “monster” in Bryan and that his rival was “living a lie” by pandering to the WWE Universe.

“Let me ask you, friend. How long are you willing to live this lie? How long until they discover that your dirty little feet are soiling their red carpets? I understand you, Bryan. I see you for what you really are. They, they look at you like you’re some circus clown here for their amusement. They look at you like a gorilla in a cage, son, but I see the monster in you. They can’t love you – not like I can, Bryan.”

Granted, it took a long time for this statement to mean anything, but Bryan’s November 2018 heel turn vindicated everything that Wyatt said five years earlier.