Former three-time world champion Bray Wyatt released by WWE after 12 years with promotion

WWE introduced the stunning launch of Bray Wyatt on Saturday afternoon, ending a protracted tenure of the wrestler, who’d seen success because the chief of the Wyatt Household in addition to beneath his more moderen persona as “The Fiend.”

Wyatt is a three-time world champion in WWE, having held the common title twice and the WWE championship as soon as. He debuted in NXT in 2010 — in the course of the interval the present was extra actuality competitors than wrestling model — as Husky Harris and briefly had a spot within the Nexus faction earlier than returning to WWE developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling for character retooling.

Wyatt, the son of former WCW and WWE star Mike Rotunda and nephew of Barry Windham, then took on the Bray Wyatt persona, chief of a southern swamp cult that includes Luke Harper, Erik Rowan and, finally, Braun Strowman. The group quick turned a high act in NXT — now a developmental territory rebrand of FCW — and WWE upon their transfer to the primary roster in 2013.

In 2019, Wyatt debuted his new character, retaining his identify however internet hosting a sinister youngsters’s program titled the “Firefly Enjoyable Home” and with a darkish, near-invincible alter ego of The Fiend. The change in gimmick led to much more success for Wyatt and re-established him as a high participant in WWE.

He final wrestled at WrestleMania 37 in April, dropping a confusingly quick match towards Randy Orton. Whereas he made one look in a “Firefly Enjoyable Home” phase after the occasion, Wyatt had virtually solely disappeared from WWE programming within the months resulting in his launch.

With Wyatt’s launch, no member of the unique Wyatt Household stays beneath WWE contract.