page_title: Bray Wyatt
section_title: Professional wrestling style and persona
hierarchical_section_title: Bray Wyatt / Professional wrestling style and persona
caption_attribution_description: Bray Wyatt finisher to Big E
context_page_description: Windham Lawrence Rotunda is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt, or just simply Bray Wyatt. He is the current WWE Universal Champion in his second reign. He is a three-time world champion, having held the WWE Championship once and WWE Universal Championship twice.
  Rotunda is a third-generation professional wrestler following in the footsteps of his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father Mike Rotunda, and two of his uncles, Barry and Kendall Windham. His younger brother Taylor Rotunda also performs in WWE under the ring name Bo Dallas. Alongside his brother, he held the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship twice while in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled under various ring names between 2009 and 2012. He also briefly wrestled on WWE's main roster from 2010 to 2011 under the ring name Husky Harris, most notably as a member of The Nexus.
context_section_description: Wyatt's character from 2013 to 2018 was an evil cult leader who believed himself to be more monster than human, leading The Wyatt Family and using a lantern to light the way in the dark arena during entrances, with entrance music by Mark Crozer. The character drew comparisons to Max Cady of the 1991 film Cape Fear and fellow wrestler Waylon Mercy. He would use a swinging reverse STO as a finishing move that would be referred to as Sister Abigail.
  Following a hiatus from summer 2018 to spring 2019, Wyatt returned and changed his character to that of a friendly children's television show host who had seen the error of his previous ways. He soon debuted an evil masked alter-ego called The Fiend, who remembers all the wrongdoings that others had inflicted on Wyatt in the past. Since his return, Wyatt appears as both characters, but his friendly show host character mostly only appears in the Firefly Fun House, while his Fiend character does most of the in-ring wrestling. There are exceptions, and that is mainly for opponents in which Wyatt did not have a previous feud, as The Fiend generally only manifests himself against those who have done Wyatt wrong, with the exception of his match against Goldberg in which despite his past character never feuded with Goldberg, he competed as The Fiend. During The Fiend's entrance, he carries a severed head resembling Wyatt's old cult leader self with a lantern inside its mouth and uses a heavy metal cover of his old theme music by Code Orange. He also adopted the mandible claw as a finishing move. During in-ring bouts, The Fiend has been presented as having unnatural endurance and strength, being able to withstand multiple finishing moves, weapon attacks and more, before kicking out of pins at a one count. Several of The Fiend's matches had also been done under a red lighting. Conversely, when Wyatt wrestles as his show host character, he comes out very cheerfully to the Firefly Fun House theme and his name graphic matches that of the Fun House, as well as interacting with some fans, similar to what face wrestlers usually do. When he wrestles as this character, however, he has little offense against his opponent and tries to calm them, as seen in his match against The Miz at TLC 2019. The character has mood swings throughout and takes pleasure in receiving pain. Both characters continue to use Sister Abigail as a finisher.
  Rotunda has been praised for his character work. Journalist Dave Meltzer said his Fiend character was "fantastic" and he is a "genius" as a performer.
caption: Wyatt setting up his "Sister Abigail" finishing move on Big E
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