#3 Bray Wyatt is benefitting from being on RAW
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It’s been said countless amounts of times by now. The WWE have not utilised Bray Wyatt correctly, and are in danger of throwing away a great opportunity to build a real star. The main thing has been Wyatt’s win/loss record, but there are deeper problems going on as well.
Bray’s whole persona is meant to be based on putting fear into his opponents, but far too often, the people he faces don’t seem at all fazed by him. As a result, he comes across as a decent wrestler with a rather unnecessary gimmick.
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His time in Smackdown Live, after the brand split wasn’t that much better either. Bray did go on to win the WWE Championship, but despite that, he has not really progressed higher up the pecking order and is basically in a similar position to where he was just after his debut.
However, his transition to RAW does seem to be working slightly better for him. In a perfect world, Bray would thrive on a roster like Smackdown’s, where he would be able to stand out and provide something different to the other guys around him. But the WWE, for one reason or another, are incapable of making that work, so it seems like they have gone back to the drawing board a little.
Placing him in a more stacked roster like RAW’s means he has better, more experienced opponents to work with. Despite his character failings, Bray is still a very talented in-ring worker, and this week he was able to demonstrate as much against Finn Balor and Samoa Joe.
Bray doesn’t feel as out of place as he normally does anymore, which means fans are able to respond to him a bit better. He is still nowhere near where he needs to be, but at least the WWE have bought themselves a little time in order to reassess where to go with him.
It’s unlikely he will be winning the fatal five-way match and going on to face Brock, but you can see a decent feud developing with Balor or Samoa Joe in the near future. At the very least, Bray doesn’t feel out of place at the moment, and that in itself is a good sign.
