Ranking Bray Wyatt's 5 best WWE WrestleMania matches

Bray Wyatt has competed in several high-profile WrestleMania matches during his WWE career
Bray Wyatt has competed in several high-profile WrestleMania matches during his WWE career

#1 "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt vs John Cena - Firefly Fun House Match (WWE WrestleMania 36 Night 2)

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"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena in a FireFly Fun House match at WWE WrestleMania 36
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena in a FireFly Fun House match at WWE WrestleMania 36

Debuting on WWE television in 2019, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt was scheduled to make his WrestleMania in-ring debut at WrestleMania 36 in 2020. After losing the WWE Universal Championship to Goldberg at WWE Super Showdown, The Fiend challenged a returning John Cena to a match on the grandest stage of them all, which Cena accepted.

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The match was scheduled to be a traditional wrestling match that would have taken place inside Raymond James Staidum. However, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, WrestleMania 36 was moved from Raymond James Stadium to the WWE Performance Center in front of zero fans on a closed set.

It was then revealed by WWE that The Fiend and John Cena's WrestleMania match was now a Firefly Fun House match. The match was taped cinematically, utilizing several cuts, stunts and cut-aways.

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The cinematic presentation told the story of John Cena's career, from debuting in 2002, becoming a carbon copy of the 1980s WWE version of Hulk Hogan and even explored a hypothetical heel turn as a member the nWo, mirroring Hogan's WCW heel turn in the 1990s. Eventually, the match ended with The Fiend attacking John Cena inside of a WWE ring with the mandible claw for victory.

While certainly not a match in any of the traditional senses, The Firefly Fun House match between Bray Wyatt and John Cena at WrestleMania 36 was critically acclaimed by the WWE Universe around the world. The cinematic presentation was perfectly in-keeping with The Fiend and Bray Wyatt characters and provided everyone watching at home with a unique WrestleMania moment.

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