RIP Bray Wyatt

Maths_Teacher · 24-08-2023 10:43pm #1

https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/1694840084091023529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1694840084091023529%7Ctwgr%5Ec225cec66902ea640ea6a6220cb865b710decdab%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FSquaredCircle%2Fcomments%2F160gkoz%2Fjust_received_a_call_from_wwe_hall_of_famer_mike%2F

Wow, shocking.

PTH2009 · 24-08-2023 10:45pm

Very shocking news

Seriously can't believe what I'm reading, so young and leaving behind a very young family

RIP

Cotts72 · 24-08-2023 10:46pm

Absolutely shocked by this..just goes to show how we never know what's going on in people's lives...lots assumed he was missing from ring action for all the wrong reasons

I was genuinely looking forward to what I assumed would be a return soon

RIP

24-08-2023 10:52pm

****

Lord TSC · 24-08-2023 10:52pm

Oh wow. What the ever living hell.

there’d been rumours a few weeks back about health issues, but that’s genuinely shocked me.

Agent Coulson · 24-08-2023 10:57pm

Wow that’s as shocking as Brodie Lee.

36 is no age and way to young to die

RIP.

cena · 24-08-2023 10:58pm

I am shocked. Way too young. Shame he has by on the sidelines

J. Marston · 24-08-2023 11:01pm

Unreal. 4 young kids too.

RIP.

Necro · 24-08-2023 11:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023390#Comment_121023390

Sidelined by the health issues since January. Absolutely awful news

JP Liz V1 · 24-08-2023 11:11pm

OMG shocked, RIP

princemuzzy · 24-08-2023 11:13pm

Jaysus **** awful news

Itssoeasy · 24-08-2023 11:17pm

Jesus **** Christ.

Ohmeha · 24-08-2023 11:29pm

So so sad he was too young, he was amazing in so many ways. I was very lucky I got to see him wrestle at the Point years ago a very special talent

Furious-Red · 24-08-2023 11:30pm

Awful news and only 36

PTH2009 · 24-08-2023 11:31pm

Last Saw him in 2019 during a double taping of SD & Raw in Manchester, he appeared for the dark segment and the crowd went nuts

The White Wolf · 24-08-2023 11:35pm

What an awful day for wrestling. RIP

ThePott · 24-08-2023 11:41pm

Definitely a reminder that we don't always know what goes on outside of the ring.

At the very least wrestling is a bit less interesting without Bray around, he always had a creative and unique approach to characters and wrestling that made things exciting at the best of times.

36 is no age to die, especially with young kids left behind. Between him and Brodie, they don't even have a combined age of 80, tragic altogether.

RIP

JP Liz V1 · 24-08-2023 11:41pm

He was rumoured for a Summerslam return or then Raw or Smackdown after it, I thought his health was all good, fit and cleared just waiting on creative to have a return angle

https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1694857108033089666

PTH2009 · 25-08-2023 12:33am

https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1694865077621359086?t=D3q3s2VMzX1BTwKDKo38Hg&s=19

Tragic

blowitupref · 25-08-2023 12:45am

One of the great storytellers and characters of modern day professional wrestling. 36 so young and has left a young family behind RIP

JP Liz V1 · 25-08-2023 1:44am

https://twitter.com/AlexaBliss_WWE/status/1694861988479091050

..

riffmongous · 25-08-2023 5:41am

Awful news, I was big fan of his.

First the Wyatt Family and then after I'd given up on the WWE a few years ago an acquaintance had recommended I check out the Firefly Funhouse segments and they are what got me back into watching the Fed

Officer999 · 25-08-2023 6:02am

Man that’s awful news to wake up to. I loved the Wyatt family. Wrestling is just full of tragic early deaths

Officer999 · 25-08-2023 6:25am

He must be the first active wrestler to die in the WWE since Benoit?

Headshot · 25-08-2023 6:29am

What horrible news to wake up to, I saw it in my news feed and had to double/triple check it as I couldn’t believe it.

Only 2 members left of the Wyatt Family now, this is a really tough one to take.

My heart goes out to his Family

Itssoeasy · 25-08-2023 6:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023709#Comment_121023709

Hadn’t thought about that but under contract I can’t think of anyone else.

awful awful news.

Angron · 25-08-2023 6:42am

I woke up to a bunch of messages on Discord and WhatsApp this morning talking about it. Hard to believe, and so young.

Itssoeasy · 25-08-2023 6:48am

I’m still shocked by the news. he was only 36 which is no age.

CastorTroy · 25-08-2023 8:02am

Frack! Just saw the news this morning. Too young!

RIP

B.A._Baracus · 25-08-2023 8:14am

Was just told the news myself. What the actual fu*k?! The guy was only 36. Shocking.

Terry Funk died at 79 the other day, more than double that of Bray. That's a life... but Bray at 36 is just too young.

Officer999 · 25-08-2023 8:48am

The Wyatt Family are certainties for the Hall of Fame someday.

Smackdown tonight surely will be a Bray Wyatt tribute show

The White Wolf · 25-08-2023 8:52am

I'm guessing Bray will lead the HoF class next year. I know it seems like it doesn't matter, but it will assist in supporting his family long term. I see they've already committed to giving part of the proceeds for merchandise to his family which is great.

Cotts72 · 25-08-2023 9:14am

Still devastated by this news ..I just watched the return last year at Extreme Rules and that ovation is matched only by a select few superstars. He was a one of a kind evolutionary superstar with a brain for the business that went from a laughing stock as Husky Harris to one of the most over characters in the past decade

Lord TSC · 25-08-2023 9:53am

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Three months younger than me. That’s the first major “celebrity” death that has hit home like that, I think. Like, Eddie, Benoit, even Brodie were all obviously way older than me. But Bray was younger. It makes it more real, and those ones hit hard regardless. It’s messed up.

Bounty Hunter · 25-08-2023 11:12am

Just doesn’t seem real.

the fact that it’s modern era and that he is a year younger than me just makes this one hard to process.

hynesie08 · 25-08-2023 11:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024109#Comment_121024109

His body of work barely qualifies for the HOF, Let alone as a headliner.

Eddie Guerrero didn't even get that.

Faugheen · 25-08-2023 11:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024109#Comment_121024109

All proceeds from his merchandise I’m pretty sure, which is a class move.

What a horrific tragedy. His initial character wound me up at the best of times but he brought it to a completely different level with the Firefly Funhouse and The Fiend. Outstanding creativity.

What a horrible loss. RIP

callaway92 · 25-08-2023 11:37am

Awful sad news

Have to say, there's a lot of bollox talk online about him being 'one of the best visionaries' etc. These comments being from the same people that absolutely shat on his characters time-and-time again

So easy when someone dies to start glamourising them to get yourself the brownie points but people were brutal about him since the Wyatt family stuff ended really

hynesie08 · 25-08-2023 11:51am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121024972#Comment_121024972

I'm not a big Wyatt guy, but he was a visionary, there was just no-one there who could scale his visions for the medium of a professional wrestling tv show, and he couldn't translate it into an in ring product.

Shame, because everything he did had glimpses of brilliance, and he could have changed the game if he learned how to harness it.

callaway92 · 25-08-2023 12:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025053#Comment_121025053

Understood on that - It's just interesting a lot of Tweets from high-level people that are all over him now, who genuinely shat on him.

Agent Coulson · 25-08-2023 1:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025354#Comment_121025354

Shat on him or shat on the gimmick?

I shat on the gimmick plenty and I didn't think he could go in the ring.

However anytime I saw him on social media interact with fans you coud see the genuine man behind the gimmick and that man seemed like a really nice man and to die at 36 with a young family is tragic no matter what anyone though of the gimmick.

The White Wolf · 25-08-2023 1:49pm

All credit to his family for putting the cause of death out there. It is absolutely their business whether they did or not, but at least it will (partly) spare them from any social media bullshit.

J. Marston · 25-08-2023 1:55pm

The Fiend was rubbish but it did give us some great wrestlecrap moments. The Firefly Funhouse "match" with Cena was genuinely brilliant though.

Bayou Bray was good. The promo for his Mania match with Cena sticks in the mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0v4J1JsJeI

He wasn't really a good wrestler but that doesn't matter if you can get crowd reactions and he did that.

nacho libre · 25-08-2023 2:17pm

Both he and Brodie gone too soon. It's a hackneyed phrase, but it's still true, sometimes the good die young and it's definitely true for those two. There were very few who had a bad word to say about either man. That as we all know is rare enough in Wrestling. The Wyatt family was the best thing in Wrestling in recent times.

It sad to think about whatever Undertaker said to Bray will never be realised now. Undertaker knew WWE had a unique character in Bray Wyatt. RIP Windham Rotunda.

ThePott · 25-08-2023 2:32pm

I think it's a bit snarky to say that people can't have both mixed feelings on some of his work while still seeing the creativity and ingenuity he brought. He can be considered and heralded for being creative even if you didn't always love what he did create.

Wrestling needs variety, Bray brought that. He had some good in-ring moments and matches and was competent but he obviously isn't going to get any best wrestler awards. He created some interesting and different characters and did deliver some good promos, visuals and ideas that often didn't fit into the mould of 'wrestling' easily. Very few of these 'spooky characters' are going to bat a hundred and they'll never be everyone's cup of tea but as a massive horror fan, I thought it was cool that there was something different and horrific even if I didn't love every part of his character or personas.

Performers will always leave complex legacies behind, you can dislike the Fiend (or his booking) while also appreciating his presentation. You can enjoy the Firefly Match with Cena while arguing that it doesn't necessarily make sense and wasn't a 'match'. Wrestling fans are passionate and we nitpick a lot, it's part of the fun. Even in film, I can see that a director like Zach Snyder is creative and has strengths even though a lot of his films just aren't for me.

I liked Bray's return to WWE and thought the White Rabbit stuff was really innovative and cool. At times it felt directionless and was frustrating that the Uncle Howdy stuff was a bit meandering but it was definitely interesting and unique and that's not always something you can say about wrestling. He brought something different to the table consistently, even if I didn't love every part of it, he made wrestling more interesting.

Even outside of that, I think people can empathise that he is a profound loss as a young man with kids, a family and colleagues that thought a great deal of him.

Sirsok · 25-08-2023 4:28pm

Devastated by this news , man it really hit hard.

Itssoeasy · 25-08-2023 4:48pm

I’ve given short posts since last night, but I loved the Wyatt family gimmick as it was like skinner mixed with the undertaker and a southern preacher and bray Wyatt was superb in that role.

And I’m glad he got a WWE championship run and he and Orton made history by being the first world title match at mania featuring two third generation wrestlers.

The fiend was a new twist on the Wyatt family and I was intrigued but I have to say I felt the same as Seth Rollins felt after the HIAC mess. It just seemed to lose its way as a gimmick.

JP Liz V1 · 25-08-2023 4:56pm

I think if he didn't get injured when he returned as a face, he could have been a mega over face, he was a big merchandise seller

I wasn't too big on him but as so young and still active despite not on screen, he was still in the media, talked about his return etc.,

I think at times creative did not know what to do with him despite his gimmick

It's 3 years since heel Reigns returned and took the title, they had unfinished business too

OT but I thought Bo had debuted on AEW but it was Santana

satguy · 25-08-2023 5:03pm

RIP , Bray

We have lost so many young fit sportsmen in the last few 2 years or so..

Lord TSC · 25-08-2023 5:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026798#Comment_121026798

Nearly as if Covid has caused health issues in people.

And I’ll say this with the mod hat on, don’t even dare start with the anti-vax nonsense. It’s the wrong day and the wrong thread to start peddling that harmful shite.

briany · 25-08-2023 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025850#Comment_121025850

The Firefly Funhouse match was completely daft, let's be honest, but WWE needed to do some things like that when they couldn't have a live audience. Same reason they had to have the boneyard match on the same show.

Agree that Bayou Bray was good. It didn't stretch the limits of credulity while being quite original. I don't think the character needed the supernatural elements which were tacked on later.

RIP Bray Wyatt

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