Nobody in WWE believes Bray Wyatt was released due to budget. The Former Wyatt Family patriarch was recently released.
There are very few wrestlers in the world like Bray Wyatt. Not many have been pushed to the brinks off irrelevancy and come back with a purpose; taking the world by storm in the process. That however, is what Wyatt has done all through his WWE career.
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Wyatt has continually reinvented himself. The latest version of himself, the Fiend, proved to be a massive hit with the audience. So much so that he become a massive merchandise mover. Wyatt was even rewarded with two runs with the Universal Championship.
Nobody in WWE believes Bray Wyatt was released due to budget
According to a report from Fightful Select, both Bray Wyatt and the WWE Locker room were told that budget cuts was the reason why they had come to the decision they had. However, “almost nobody” within WWE believes that Bray Wyatt was actually let go due to budget cuts because of everything that has been stated above.
According to the report almost 20 people have reached out to Fightful this weekend to say they don’t believe the company’s reasoning. They believe that there has to be more to this release due to Wyatt being a “known money-maker” for the company.
“A consensus was that almost nobody in the company truly believed this was a budget cut, citing Wyatt’s popularity, merchandise sales among reasons.”
If there is indeed more to this story then hopefully we will find out everything about it; Possibly once Wyatt completes his 90-day no compete clause. It will also be interesting to see where he where he takes his talents and creativity to.
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