RIP Bray Wyatt

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    1 year ago

    An absolute shame. I’m so sorry to anyone rocked by this announcement.

    Use this space to talk about your favourite Bray moment or whatever you want. As well, let’s use this as a mega thread for news related to his passing. Please post any Twitter links or articles about this tragedy here.

    Thanks guys. RIP Bray Wyatt.

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    Terry Funk was sad and heartbreaking but not unexpected due to his health issues and age. Bray Wyatt on the other hand is tragic and heartbreaking, he was young and has small children, and this is hard. I hated The Fiend character, but loved Swamp Wyatt, I really hate there won’t be a new character coming, and hope his family weathers this storm well.

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    Ugh this is not what I needed to hear today. I didn’t really watch WWE but I did know if the Wyatt Family stuff from social and he was just smashing at what he did.

    For goddess sake please be with Erik Rowan right now because I can only imagine what he’s going through losing both of his close partners and friends so soon. 😭😭😭

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    Wow…this is devastating.

    He was 36. He was many, many years away from “too soon”. He wasn’t even close. He should’ve had so many more years of spotlight…

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    Haven’t watched wrestling in many years. But Bray was always a badass. His entrance was epic, his characters were fantastic and frightening, and his story telling was larger than life. RIP.

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    Almost half year since he dropped out of Wrestlemania, can’t believe this is how he returned to the news 😔 thanks for the memories

    The Wyatt Family is down to 1, absolutely unbelievable

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    Fuck, someone posted the clip (timestamp is 5:42 if it fucks up) where Booker and Brad learn about his passing live during their podcast. The look on Bookers face is rough and about what mine was.

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      I was 100% prepared to be let down by that match and was so excited to be completely wrong. They both leaned in so hard to the gimmick that what should’ve been incredibly cringey ended up being amazing.

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    What in the fuck :(

    Not the kind of news I wanted to wake up to see, that’s for sure. Way too damned young…

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    Just awful. I never watched much WWE when he was around but I’ve watched the funhouse match multiple times. A creative visionary. Such a shocking, bitter loss.

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    This sucks.

    Bray is/was one of the few performers in the last 15 years where I’ve felt I had to watch his promos, as well as the matches.

    At his best he was absolutely captivating, and a true loss.

    Absolutely insane to think that we’ve lost have the Wyatt family already.

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    The sole reason I never fell back out of love with wrestling (again) before AEW started. We’ve lost a creative powerhouse, and by all accounts a great father and friend. Devastating.

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      Absolutely. And FWIW, I did fall out of love with wrestling prior to AEW. But anytime I’d see Bray I’d stop and watch what he was doing.

      As someone who mostly watches AEW, he was the one guy I wanted them to sign. I’d say that elsewhere and people would tell me “he’s not a good wrestler,” or what have you. But I don’t care. The part of wrestling that appeals to me most is the ‘creative/promo’ side of things and no one was better at that than Bray.