Analyzing the singles journey of The Wyatt Family
Monday Night Raw featured all three members of the Wyatt Family or should we even be addressing them as a family? Monday Night’s story was about teamwork which is obvious considering that the most hyped bout is the tag match. It was also a story about different characters and their involvement.
The picture looked crowded but it still was able to bring out the diversity in characteristics that each team member possessed. It also showed signs of events that might transpire in the coming weeks. Dissolution of a family might play as one of the themes.
Luke harper and Erick Rowan are going to be at loggerheads soon. They came face to face in the main event on Monday which left Harper aghast, as if his already existing ghostly expression wasn’t enough.
The night featured all the members or former members of the Wyatt family separately. And in all of them Bray Wyatt had the least spectacular part. Who would have expected that the leader of this stable would be the surpassed by his followers to have the most talking points of the show?
Bray Wyatt
Bray Wyatt’s feud with Dean Ambrose has been underwhelming. There’s no doubt about that. It could have been so much better but unfortunately Ambrose and Wyatt have had to suffer from Creative’s ever-present lack of attention.
It’s encouraging that the management finally had these two exceptionally good mic workers get involved in a feud against each other but it is extremely annoying that they aren’t utilizing them to their full potential.
Maybe Creative is trying to have a slow build up with these guys and this is just a sotto voce and the crescendo is yet to come but even the sotto voce has its own charm. Right now, the only thing selling this feud is that each superstar needs to score a win.
They haven’t been given the proper screen time that they can relish talking in. There have been sparks but it hasn’t been enough to put the stage on fire.
Luke Harper
Luke Harper’s speculated push kicked off a shocking fashion. He showed up towards the wee end of the show and made it clear that he was the uninvited guest in the Authority’s dome.
But he was welcome and he was gifted with a title shot the following week. Ina shocking turn of events Luke Harper became the new Intercontinental Champion. He defeated Dolph Ziggler who has had more great matches and moments than any other IC champion in the past couple of years.
The Bottom Line went something like this- Harper became a champion before Bray Wyatt.
A championship doesn’t define one’s greatness or potential or future with the WWE. A championship, though, does show how much potential the management sees in you as a mainstay in PPVs and television.
A championship doesn’t define a superstar, a superstar defines a championship. It remains to be seen how Harper works his way into storylines and how Creative invests in his talents. But it was a marquee moment in Harper’s career and one of the very noted points from Raw.
Erick Rowan
This article would be incomplete without mentioning Erick Rowan. Not only because he is the third member of the family but because he made a shocking turn in the main event.
He joined Cena’s team to fight against a team which has Luke Harper. It was not expected. Everybody expected Rowan to not get a push, the level of which Harper and Wyatt were set for. He was having those few seconds of presence backstage as Renee Young’s potential stalker.
He might or might not remain relevant. His inclusion in the most hyped bout for Survivor Series doesn’t mean that he’s settled for a great future but the moment he made his entrance and the reaction to it would always remain imprinted.