WWE SmackDown star and a former three times WWE World Champion Bray Wyatt who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently looked back at his release from WWE back in 2021 and revealed his mindset after getting released by WWE.
Wyatt started his professional wrestling career as a competitor in the inaugural WWE NXT competition where he was known as Husky Harris. He also worked as a member as the Nexus. In 2012, he was repackaged as Bray Wyatt for the first time in his career and he spent a short time on the FCW and on the NXT after it got rebranded.
Bray Wyatt Discusses His Release From WWE In 2021
On the same year he made his main roster debut, and from the very first day of joining the main roster, he had been treated as a potential main event star. He formed a stable along with Luke Harper and Eric Rowan, together they were known as the Wyatt Family. Braun Strowman also joined the stable later.
In spite of being one of the most talented star of the roster, it took him nearly five years to win his first WWE World Championship. In the Elimination Chamber pay per view event of 2017 he went on to win the WWE championship. His popularity among the WWE fans never got decreased.
In 2019, WWE repackage team as the Fiend Bray Wyatt and he started to receive even a bigger push in WWE. It looked like that he was going to be the next big thing in WWE. He also won the WWE Universal Championship. But in Super Showdown 2020 pay per view event, he lost to Goldberg which completely killed his momentum.
WWE tried to get his Momentum back after they let him had a victory over John Cena at WrestleMania 36 but it was too late. Somehow, The Fiend character died after losing to Goldberg. After WrestleMania 37, WWE shocked the entire world when they released him.
In 2022, after Triple H became the Head of Creative of WWE, he brought Bray Wyatt back, but this time, he was repackaged in a different version. He was still playing the character of Wyatt, but this time WWE introduced an alter ego of his character called Uncle Howdy. We hope to see him working as a main event star in WWE again.
Bray Wyatt who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Ryan Satin on Out of Character where he looked back at his release from WWE back in 2021 and revealed his mindset after getting released by WWE. He said;
“There is a certain reluctancy to me, where there hasn’t been in the past. It’s part of any athlete, when you’re away from something for so long, there is something in the back of your head that is like, ‘Am I still it? Am I still what I am, what I should be?’ For the majority since I’ve been back,” said Bray Wyatt.
“I was kind of there, in a sense, and the weeks have progressed, I’ve started to come into my own again and remember why I do this and how much it means to be out there and perform at things like the Royal Rumble.The closer I’ve gotten, I’ve started to sink my teeth into being what I should be.” said Bray Wyatt.
“Genuinely, that moment was not for me. During my time away, I had opportunities to do really cool things, movies and TV shows and stuff, and I wouldn’t, because I felt broken. There was something that was shut off and I didn’t understand why.
“It was literally people telling me and keeping me alive and dragging me back, telling me, ‘You should still do this, we miss you.’ I didn’t feel that way at first. I felt damaged. It was that, that gave me the strength to kind of build back out and explode. It was geared for them, it was.”
“I despise the way my mind worked. That’s the truth of it all. I’m the first person to ever tell you all of my flaws. I refuse to watch myself back, I’ve never seen pretty much anything I’ve done, I can’t watch. I’m that kind of headcase, man. It’s also kind of my superpower. It’s what makes me, me, the obsession.
“When I’m geared on something, I’m so deep into it that there is no separating life from anything else, it just is. When I dive deep like that, it’s what makes me connect and it’s the reason that I have fans that are so into what I do, it feels like it’s part their life too. If I didn’t have such passionate fans, I wouldn’t be here, I really wouldn’t. It’s them that led me back here.”
Quotes via Fightful