What if Braun Strowman brings back the Wyatt Family?

#3 The end of the Woken Universe

The Woken Universe experiment may be over.

Bray Wyatt’s feud with Matt Hardy culminated in the two of them teaming up together. Rather than an odd couple tag team of partners who fought each other and rallied around a common cause, Wyatt became consumed by Hardy’s Woken antics. After taking a swim in the Lake of Reincarnation, he returned as Hardy’s sidekick and partner.

While the duo did win the Raw Tag Team Championships, playing second fiddle to Hardy felt like a big step back for a former main eventer. In returning to his old form, and partnering with Strowman and Harper rather than Hardy, it would more or less represent WWE hitting the reset button and asking us to forget all things Woken, at least as they pertain to Wyatt, if not in general. For as much fun as Hardy’s antics had been in Impact Wrestling, WWE never seemed to fully get behind his vision, and it’s probably just as well if the company were to let go of the Woken gimmick wholesale.