Windham Rotunda, identified largely to wrestling followers as Bray Wyatt, has handed away. He was solely 36. Paul “Triple H” Levesque broke the information on his Twitter. No different particulars can be found for the time being. Wyatt had grow to be a top-level star within the firm, successful each the WWE and Common Championship throughout his time there.
Wyatt was out of motion since late February with an unknown sickness, however it had lately been reported that he was getting nearer to getting cleared to return. He was a second-generation wrestler following his father, Mike Rotunda, who carried out below the notorious Nineties villain, Irwin R. Schyster.
“Simply acquired a name from WWE Corridor of Famer Mike Rotunda who knowledgeable us of the tragic information that our WWE member of the family for all times Windham Rotunda–also referred to as Bray Wyatt–unexpectedly handed earlier right this moment,” Triple H posted. “Our ideas are together with his household and we ask that everybody respect their privateness at the moment.”
Initially given the gimmick of Husky Harris, Rotunda was repackaged as Bray Wyatt in 2013. Alongside together with his singles titles, he additionally held the SmackDown Tag Staff Championship (with Luke Harper aka Brodie Lee and Randy Orton below the Freebird rule) and the Uncooked Tag Staff Championship (with Matt Hardy) as soon as every.
After a hiatus of a number of months, Wyatt returned with a brand new gimmick. This time portraying a person affected by a transformative a number of persona dysfunction, he randomly switched backwards and forwards between two characters: his “good facet” of Bray Wyatt, the Mr. Rogers-esque TV host, and his malicious facet of “The Fiend.”
He was launched from WWE in July 2021 and returned to the corporate at their Excessive Guidelines pay-per-view in October 2022 after weeks of hinting of his arrival. Wyatt was final seen on WWE programming feuding with LA Knight, which culminated in a Pitch Black match at this yr’s Royal Rumble.
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