5 biggest WWE backstage secrets that Bray Wyatt revealed

#3 He was in a ‘bad place’ at WrestleMania 32

After facing John Cena at WrestleMania 30 and The Undertaker at WrestleMania 31, Bray Wyatt was originally expected to take on Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 32 but he ended up appearing in a promo segment with The Rock which resulted in “The Great One” defeating Erick Rowan in a six-second match.

The encounter between Wyatt and Lesnar had been set up perfectly at the 2016 Royal Rumble when the Wyatt Family joined forces to eliminate “The Beast” from the Rumble, but WWE decided to have Lesnar face Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania 32 instead.

Why? Reasons are still unknown, as Wyatt competed in matches against other Superstars in the weeks before and after ‘Mania, while the man himself explained on the Notsam Wrestling Podcast that he was in a “bad place” at the time of the event (quotes via Wrestling Inc.):

"I was in a very bad place at last year's WrestleMania [2016], emotionally and physically I was a little beat up. But it was like all that rage an anger is what kind of drove me this year [2017] and brought me to where I am now.

“That's the thing. I want to be The Rock. I want to be the next Rock. Being in there with him and seeing the energy that he can cause the fans to go through, it's an amazing thing. But I don't want to be the guy that gets beat up by The Rock. I want to be The Rock. I want to be better than The Rock."