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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Aug 31, 2023 14:40:53 GMT -5
Drew's bit about Bray in FCW promo class is hilarious "They say he was always that good. That's not true. We were all terrible." I love the story of them chucking out a guy during a battle royal who had been told he would win (as a rib) "haha come on guys wait NO BRO I'M SUPPOSED TO WIN"
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Post by Totorob101 on Sept 1, 2023 21:33:11 GMT -5
I hope WWE gives him some support as he must be so sad with losing both Brwy and Brodie,heck bring him back because he was a really good talent and has lots to offer. Have him and Braun be a badass tag team,just something for him so he can be around his friends and co-workers through these sad times,I imagine Braun would be glad to have him around too.
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 1, 2023 21:51:33 GMT -5
I hope WWE gives him some support as he must be so sad with losing both Brwy and Brodie,heck bring him back because he was a really good talent and has lots to offer. Have him and Braun be a badass tag team,just something for him so he can be around his friends and co-workers through these sad times,I imagine Braun would be glad to have him around too. Braun's still recovering from neck surgery so it wouldn't be able to happen that soon, but yes hope Erick has plenty of support right now
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Post by Rubix Cube Johnny on Sept 2, 2023 7:10:27 GMT -5
Is anyone else still not processing this?
Celebrity deaths never get me but this one still just doesn't feel real.
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Post by schizo on Sept 2, 2023 13:26:49 GMT -5
Is anyone else still not processing this? Celebrity deaths never get me but this one still just doesn't feel real. Same I still have this lingering feeling that he’s still recovering and he’ll be back soon, like I watched the tribute show, watched everyone’s memories about him and such but, still doesn’t feel like he’s truly gone
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 2, 2023 14:52:55 GMT -5
Seth “Freakin'” Rollins recently appeared as a guest on “After the Bell with Corey Graves” for an in-depth interview promoting tonight’s WWE Payback 2023 premium live event.
During the discussion, the WWE World Heavyweight Champion reflected at length on the life and career of Windham Rotunda, better known to WWE fans as Bray Wyatt.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On Bray Wyatt’s early days in WWE and having significant internal support early on: “Creativity is one thing, but the resilience, you got to remember like Windham was like, this close to getting fired. He was this close to just being gone. He had come up, done NXT, he had done the Husky Harris thing, he’d gotten removed from the the NXT TakeOver thing, the the Nexus stuff that happened on television, and then he got sent back down to developmental and like, he just totally revamped himself, and he took a shot. It wasn’t immediate. He tried a lot of different things. He had a lot of different ideas floating around in his head, and to be there kind of on the ground floor and see that process and see what eventually turned into Bray Wyatt and the Wyatt Family. I mean, that is a lesson, to keep it in the wrestling bubble, that’s the lesson to all young talent or talents who are trying to find their footing in our industry. Don’t let setbacks force you to feel like you failed, or that you need to give up or give in or or any of that. You can be successful. You just have to figure yourself out. You’ve got to figure out who you are and what your character is. You can do all these things. You just have to believe and you have to work and you have to process and it takes time and that’s okay. I know Windham was frustrated during that period of time, but he just let his creative juices flow. He had the American Dream Dusty Rhodes there, and he had his friends and his brothers and his people, and everybody was rooting for him.”
On getting goosebumps the first time he heard Windham do the Wyatt voice and how his creativity was second to none: “I remember the first time hearing the Bray Wyatt kind of voice. Don’t get me wrong. That’s a lot of Windham, but you know that little twang. I remember the first time I heard him talk like that. It’s giving me goosebumps right now. I remember distinctly the first time I heard his voice and that Bray Wyatt delivery, that cadence, that whisper, changed everything and then he was off to the races from there. Sometimes that’s all it takes. But the most important thing it takes is diligence, that resilience, and that patience to understand that it’s just not going to happen overnight. When your back is against the wall, you fight. Keep fighting. He did and he was special in that way, and he was remarkable in his creativity in what he brought to Harper, Brody, and Rowan and what he gave them, and Braun as well. He contributed a lot to a lot of people who looked up to him. He was a special cat. He really, really was. Creativity is second to none. The character work and effort that he put into that character and what the vision for Bray Wyatt was second to none.”
On “The Fiend” character and constantly reinventing himself: “While we’re on it, I mean, look. The Fiend and Bray Wyatt, the two versions of Bray Wyatt that you saw on WWE television were two completely different brain childs for him. Even in his final incarnation, the third version, I mean, he was always figuring out new ways to reinvent himself. He and I were very similar at that time, and we were always thinking. We’re always thinking what’s next? What’s next? What’s next? How do we transform? How do we transcend what we’ve already done? I was always in awe of how he was able to come up with these transformations that made sense in the depths of his character. If you look at the trajectory of everything that he did, it all flowed together in this perfect river, but they were all so different from each other and that was, that’s a hard thing to do, and he did it better than anybody.”
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Post by jhbboy198917 on Sept 3, 2023 18:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Sept 7, 2023 23:38:47 GMT -5
I was just watching Bray's last segment which was a Firefly Funhouse and in hindsight it was full on hinting the new faction.
-Obviously Bray -Uncle Howdy -Woman playing with action figures (Alexa Bliss?) -TV announcer which I'm 99% sure is Eric Young
So just missing 2 members if it was indeed a Wyatt6, and were the others the ones dressed up as the lifesize Funhouse puppets?
There was also rumour that Bray's mask, the black one similar to Uncle Howdy's was supposed to be 'Uncle Harper'.
I hope Bo, or someone close to the creative one day does explain where it was all leading.
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Post by jhbboy198917 on Sept 8, 2023 7:31:57 GMT -5
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Post by polarbearpete on Sept 8, 2023 9:29:39 GMT -5
I was just watching Bray's last segment which was a Firefly Funhouse and in hindsight it was full on hinting the new faction. -Obviously Bray -Uncle Howdy -Woman playing with action figures (Alexa Bliss?) -TV announcer which I'm 99% sure is Eric Young So just missing 2 members if it was indeed a Wyatt6, and were the others the ones dressed up as the lifesize Funhouse puppets? There was also rumour that Bray's mask, the black one similar to Uncle Howdy's was supposed to be 'Uncle Harper'. I hope Bo, or someone close to the creative one day does explain where it was all leading. The other 2 were to be Vincent and Dutch.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Sept 8, 2023 21:19:43 GMT -5
I was just watching Bray's last segment which was a Firefly Funhouse and in hindsight it was full on hinting the new faction. -Obviously Bray -Uncle Howdy -Woman playing with action figures (Alexa Bliss?) -TV announcer which I'm 99% sure is Eric Young So just missing 2 members if it was indeed a Wyatt6, and were the others the ones dressed up as the lifesize Funhouse puppets? There was also rumour that Bray's mask, the black one similar to Uncle Howdy's was supposed to be 'Uncle Harper'. I hope Bo, or someone close to the creative one day does explain where it was all leading. The other 2 were to be Vincent and Dutch. That's more sad news. I've always thought Vincent would be perfect with Bray Wyatt. He's got that same vibe Bray had, and would have worked well with him
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 9, 2023 11:30:54 GMT -5
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 12, 2023 1:57:27 GMT -5
The wrestling community is still coming to grips with the losses of Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt, who died within a span of 48 hours last month. In a recent interview with "Battleground Podcast," Matt Cardona — who worked for several years with Wyatt under the WWE banner – focused on the positive impact the two wrestlers made on the industry rather than delving into the heartache that he and his peers are continuing to cope with.
"You can't even measure the things they've done and the legacy they're leaving behind," Cardona said. "Terry Funk — you know this whole GCW and indie run [of mine] ... listen, I'm not comparing myself to Terry Funk by any means, but I definitely look at him for some inspiration. For the things he did for ECW and the locker room there — I'd like to do half of that, a quarter of that, for GCW and that locker room.
"As for Bray, man, it's still shocking and so sad," Cardona continued. "I worked with Bray so many times, whether it was during his FCW call-up [when] he was on the road. I never did The Fiend stuff — he was always way higher than me on the card, but he was such a great guy in and out of the ring."
Cardona recalled running into Wyatt at Chicago airport several months before his death, when "WWE SmackDown" was in the Windy City, and "The Indy God" was traveling through the Midwest to fulfill one of his indie dates.
"We just chitchatted for a second and [shared] a big hug," Cardona recalled. " And we're not even that great of buddies, but that's just the type of guy he is — just a friendly guy, a happy guy, and man, what a loss. My thoughts are with his family at this time ... it's horrible."
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Post by jhbboy198917 on Sept 12, 2023 13:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Sept 12, 2023 13:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Sept 12, 2023 14:03:50 GMT -5
Guys, go back and watch the Firefly Funhouse match again if you haven't lately. It's just so damn genius. I'm so sad someone who was that creative is gone. He would have been such an asset backstage as an agent or just making movies. What a tragedy.
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Post by jhbboy198917 on Sept 12, 2023 14:06:30 GMT -5
What hurts worse is her & Bray were planning on getting married in December
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Post by Cyno on Sept 12, 2023 15:03:16 GMT -5
I'm in tears from reading Jojo's tribute. My heart breaks for her.
And I'll always be impressed with how The Rock pays it forward.
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