The Wyatt Family
From the May 27 episode of "Raw", WWE aired vignettes promoting the upcoming debut of The Wyatt Family. The vignettes showed The Wyatt Family's backwoods origins. On the July 8 episode of "Raw", The Wyatt Family made their debut by assaulting Kane. Harper made his WWE in-ring debut on the July 26 "SmackDown", where he and Rowan defeated Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and Tensai). Over the next few months, Harper and Rowan went on a winning streak over many teams, until Cody Rhodes and Goldust handed them their first loss on the October 11 episode of "SmackDown". In November, The Wyatt Family started a rivalry with CM Punk and Daniel Bryan heading into Survivor Series, where Harper and Rowan lost to Punk and Bryan in a tag team match. The following month at , The Wyatt Family defeated Bryan in a 3-on-1 handicap match.