According to PWInsider.com, Wyatt was warming up in the ring when he suffered what appeared to be an ankle sprain. He was then taken backstage in a cart. There are no further updates at this time but it does not appear that he will miss the show.
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Bray Wyatt, God Complexes and (Breakable) Glass Ceilings
10th September 2014 by Scott Keith
http://placetobenation.com/bray-wyatt-god-complexes-and-breakable-glass-ceilings/
Here’s the thing: I hate the headline, but Brad and Justin at P2B decided to keep it. So depending on how you feel about it, I’m either throwing them or myself under the bus. Because I came up with it, and then I thought it was terrible.
But they’re probably right. I suck at headlines, so if I ever wrote a decent one I probably would think it’s awful. Anyway, I’ve had a busy as hell summer so this is the first thing I’ve written in probably two or three months. Hope everyone likes it.
The Odd Couple: Why Bray and Bo Dallas Should be Paired Up as a New Tag Team
1st July 2014 by Scott Keith
Like those who work in a circus or live entertainment environment,
WWE has a long-standing tradition of having wrestlers who are related to
one another (or, in some cases, just unrelated duos they want to bill
as siblings) wrestle as tag team partners. The Usos (part of the Anoi’i
Family which has featured talent such as The Rock and Roman Reigns), The
Rhodes Brothers and The Bella Twins all come to mind. After watching
last night’s Money In The Bank opening monologue (and seeing Bray go
nowhere), I figured now would be a good time as any to have one of the
most unusual, yet interesting true life sibling pairings to date debut:
Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas.
I know what you’re thinking: Danielle, can I have a cookie? Sure, go ‘head.
Otherwise,
you’re thinking that Dallas and Wyatt couldn’t have gimmicks further
apart and that’s true. On one hand, you have Bray Wyatt, a southern
redneck radical cult leader who lives in darkness and preaches to the
“lost” (and also walks around like a spider when he should be wrestling)
and on the other, Bo Dallas who seems to think he’s the official
Motivational Speaker for the Earth. Bray has a gimmick that works, fans
love him and sing along with him to “He’s Got the Whole World in His
Hands” while Bo gets laughed at, booed and ignored.
However,
there’s a huge difference between someone whose gimmick works as a heel
and someone whom the audience wishes would get on a bus and leave the
WWE forever. Right now, Bo is obviously the latter, dismissed for coming
off as a complete wuss.
The problem is that the average wrestling fan doesn’t know Dallas’s history.
Spoiler Alert: he isn’t a slouch.
Bo wrestled
under his real name, Bo Rotunda before he came to WWE. If the name
sounds familiar, it’s because he’s part of the Windham/Rotunda wrestling
dynasty.
When he was younger, Rotunda won the FCW
Florida Heavyweight Championship three times. He was the first NXT
wrestler to win a spot in the 2013 WWE Royal Rumble by beating Luke
Harper and Leo Kruger (the latter currently rebranded in the WWE as Adam
Rose) at the Royal Rumble Fan Fest. Bo Dallas lasted a very respectable
20 minutes — even besting Intercontinental Champion, Bad News Barrett
(the latter coming back into the ring and eliminated Rotunda sparking a
fued and a title match for the Intercontinental Championship belt which
Barrett retained). Bo held the NXT Championship for 280 days after
defeating Big E.
Bo actually has an interesting
history with Bray in both leagues. He’s wrestled with Bray Wyatt as Bo
Rotundo and Duke Rotundo to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship
twice. (They also wrestled together as Bo Rotundo and Husky Harris
previously). Yet, in NXT, when “Duke” changed his name to “Bray” and set
up “The Wyatt Family”, Bo was actually given the opportunity to join
them. He refused. In response, Bray ruined Bo’s triple threat match
against Conor O’Brian and Corey Graves, leading to a later match between
Bo and Bray. Bo ended up winning that night.
Of course, NXT is not WWE and rarely do the two occupy the same universe or have a parallel continuity.
Right
now, Bo remains undefeated in WWE, albeit against wrestlers that aren’t
taken as seriously as competitors including R-Truth, Fandango and Titus
O’Neil.
I’d love to see Dallas confronted with his
“past” or, in other words, some of the guys he faced from NXT. It’s not
like the Bo Dallas character has been re-branded the way Isaac Yankem
became Kane. He uses the same name and a silly “Bolieve” gimmick. He’s
not motivating anyone with it, he’s getting heat for it, much as he did
for his last few months in NXT (where he didn’t even try to be Tony
Robbins).
Most importantly, it’s time to have him join
his brother as tag team partner. Last night, they wasted a great
opportunity to get that started. As you may recall, Daniel Bryan came
into the ring to report on his injuries (which had excellent potential
for a Barrett joke) but Bo Dallas interrupted the segment so that he
could condescend and tell Bryan he was “climbing the ladder of life”.
Daniel Bryan humiliated Bo by referring to him as a “Bo-ner”. It was
amazing watching Dallas’s face fall as he realized he was being told
off.
It may have been almost imperceptive, but part of Dallas died right there.
Cut
to the backstage area and Bo walking with his head down, looking
dejected…right past Bray Wyatt who is sitting in his rocking chair in a
dark room, slightly lit, waiting for his big Ladder Match. He slowly
realizes who just walked past the doorway, gets up and watches as Bo
walks. The camera goes back to Bray as he grins. Sheep mask.
Then we go deeper into it on RAW. You can even start a “universe” with RAW and NXT sharing the same space.
This
time is different, though. Bo is starting to realize that his message
and inspiration is falling on deaf ears. Instead of being accepted as
somebody who pushes people to be great, he’s been humiliated, booed and
gotten so little back for such great effort. He realizes that it’s time
for him to accept the invitation. At first, he’ll try to resist, but it
makes a lot of sense. Bray is more over than Bo who realizes that he may
never get over at this rate but, together, they’re an interesting pair.
Bo could be spouting out demotivational thoughts. Might be a little
Sandow-ish and on the comedy side, but you insert a bit of darker humor
to it, it works. He can pop out at the end of matches (both ones he’s in
and ones he’s not) and tell people that they couldn’t win a match
against a first grader and to hang up their costumes.
Bray
could even distance himself even more from Luke and Erick (already
sporting a different theme than the usual Wyatt family’s “Run and
Hide”) to the point where Bray and Bo could fight Luke and Erick. That
match might set a WWE record for most amount of cheating and
interference, actually.
As a new powerful heel
wrestler, it will be great to see him take on and create some
long-standing feuds with previous NXT opponents either in singles
matches or as part of a tag team with Bray. The possibilities are almost
endless. Daniel Bryan got it half right last night: it was time for a
Bo to leave, but, NOT Bo the wrestler.
It’s time for
the end of Bo-lieve gimmick — and the beginning of a darker, more
cynical Bo Dallas, which fits in perfectly with his brother, Bray.
Bo and Bray
30th March 2014 by Scott Keith
Hello from your friends at @Wrestling617!
A thought while watching Bo Dallas wrap up his NXT run.
Could we see him bring the Bo-lievers gimmick up with him and have it (intentionally) fail miserably… Only to see him 'saved' by brother Bray and make Bo Wyatt the 4th man?
Would also set up a new 'leader' if the time ever comes to turn Bray face.
I'm not opposed to adding him to the Wyatt Family as the screwup brother of Bray so they have someone to take the bullet, but the Bo-Lievers deal just comes across as so minor-league and dated without the context of the Full Sail crowd. Plus I really don't think Bo is ready for prime time yet, and not just in the intentional comedy way. They already have enough clowns in the midcard and I just don't see the spot for Bo.
But yeah, bringing him in as the spotlight-hogging younger brother might be something they could make work.
Bray Wyatt
4th March 2014 by Scott Keith
Scott:
Can you help me understand the Wyatts? Don't get me wrong- I enjoy Bray's work on the mic and think that the character is a great idea, but what's their motivation? And more importantly, shouldn't they actually accomplish something at some point?
So yeah, they beat Kane or whatever, but what happened? He disappeared, then came back as a corporate stooge. Which is the exact opposite of what they should've wanted to happen. Win the battle, lost the war.
So then they set their sights on Danie Bryan. But what then? He infiltrates/turns on them and has the big cage moment win. Sure, Bray got the win back at Royal Rumble, but Bryan went right back to fighting the machine and starting a by-gawd Hashtag YES Movment that even Michael Cole can get behind. So they failed there, too.
Okay, so they defeated the Shield-which was awesome-but the Shield is eating itself from the inside. Shouldn't Bray have had something to do with that? Why not make him the devil on Ambrose's shoulder, as opposed to "People (::cough::JBL::cough::) sayyou don't defend the US Title enough"?
And now it's Cena/Bray at WM, even if that makes no sense, and we all know that Cena can't actually lose there, so what's the endgame?
Can the Wyatts actually stay over as "the group that targets you, rants about changing your character, beats you in match after match, doesn't actually change you, and then moves on to the next target?" Isn't that kind of dumb? I realize that the face reactions aren't helping, and I realize Bray is awesome enough to keep some momentum for a while, but sooner or later shouldn't he be adding people to the family? Not a full-on Ravens Flock/Ministry of Darkness, but ….something? Anything?
Also, Rowan and Harper kind of suck.
Thanks,
Adam
I too am kind of bothered by their lack of motivation. It's like Jake Roberts promos without the follow-up. Although Harper definitely does not suck.
“HUSKY HARRIS!” chants at Bray Wyatt question
10th July 2013 by Scott Keith
Hey, Mr. Keith, I enjoy your blog and the interaction on there is a lot of fun to read over, too. I did notice something on there, though, when it came to people reacting to the Husky Harris chants that Bray Wyatt was getting. I find it strange that everyone got all angry at those chants, but it's seemingly okay that the crowd did the same things to Orton and Big Show the night after Mania. Why's it okay during a match like that as opposed to Bray Wyatt?
To me, I don't find that much of a difference. I know people have high hopes for Wyatt, and I think that's why people are more upset, but I find it hypocritical to think it's okay for a crowd to get themselves over in one match, but not okay for something else like that.
Because although smart mark etiquette has fallen by the wayside over the years, there used to be a very distinct hierarchy of smart-ass fans until the internet broke down the barriers for good. And the worst kind of people, like the ones who make us embarrassed to be fans, have always been the idiots who sit in the front row and yell real names or former gimmicks at guys like a kid who's just found a new toy. For anyone who's either been online for more than a month or had a subscription to the Observer, it's like "OK, you know he used to have a different name, very good then". If you're going to a show, cheer or boo who you want and chant announcer's names if you want, or sing along with Fandango's music ironically, whatever, but don't ruin it for everyone else by deliberately trying to break the fourth wall. WWE ruins things that way enough by themselves. But maybe that's just me.
Bray Wyatt
9th June 2013 by Scott Keith
Hey Scott, been a fan for a year and so and I'd like your thoughts on Bray Wyatt. That his character is awesome, we can all see, but do you think in-ring wise he's at the same level or close? Since you can see/predict that they're gonna push him big time, you think his in-ring work is ready for this?
Thank you!
Oh yeah, from what I've seen on NXT he's absolutely ready. Him and Kassius Ohno should have been called up MONTHS ago, if not sooner. His flunkies are another thing entirely, but if they're keeping the Wyatt Family gimmick intact then it'll get over pretty much instantly and they can disguise the limitations of the flunkies.