The Wyatt Family was a professional wrestling stable in WWE originally composed of Bray Wyatt, Erick Rowan, and Luke Harper. The stable was disbanded in the 2017 WWE Superstar Shake-up, in which Wyatt was moved to Raw, while Rowan remained on Smack down. The family has been portrayed as an evil cult leader who believed himself to be more monster than human. Their gimmick is based on a backwoods cult.
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The Wyatt Family was a professional wrestling stable in WWE originally composed of Bray Wyatt, Erick Rowan, and Luke Harper. The Wyatt Family debuted in WWE’s then developmental branch NXT in November 2012, with Harper and Rowan going on to win the NXT Tag Team Championship. They would go on to debut on the main roster in July 2013 as a villainous faction terrorizing other WWE wrestlers, including Kane, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, John Cena, and The Shield. The original incarnation of the group began to go their separate ways in September 2014, after Wyatt announced he was \”setting Harper andRowan free\”. As a result, Rowan would turn into a heroic character by joining John Cena’s team at Survivor Series, while Harper would remain villainous and side with The Authority. After they lost the tag team titles, Harper departed from the group in January 2017. In late 2016, with the addition of Randy Orton, the Wyatt Family won the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. The stable was disbanded in the 2017 WWE Superstar Shake-up, in which Wyatt was moved to Raw, while Rowan remained on Smack down. The vignettes showed the Wyatt family’s backwoods origins on the July 8 episode of Raw vignette. The next week, The Wyatt family appeared on the Raw episode, promoting the upcoming debut of The Wyatt Vignettes, a women’s version of the WWE Raw Superstars. The group was later withdrawn from the stable as a result of the 2016 WWE draft, with Braun Strowman joining the stable in July 2015, but later rejoining in July 2016.
The family has been portrayed as an evil cult leader who believed himself to be more monster than human. Their gimmick is based on a backwoods cult and Wyatt’s character has drawn comparisons to Charles Manson and wrestler Waylon Mercy as well as Max Cady from Cape Fear. They have also been compared to Judas Devlin and Baron Corbin, who were considered as part of the stable during the early process of creation. In May, Wyatt debuted on the newly NXT television show, defeating Aiden English in a singles match. In July, Wyatt suffered a torn pectoral muscle and required surgery. Despite the injury, Wyatt continued to appear on NXT by founding a faction known as the “Wyatt Family” in November, with Luke Harper and ErickRowan as his \”sons\”. Wyatt defeated Graves and Kassius Ohno on the May 22 episode of NXT, and the next week Wyatt eliminated both Graves and Ohno during an 18-man battle royal to determine the number one contender to the NXT Championship. On the July 17 episode of WWE Raw, Wyatt pinned William Regal for the win in a six-man tag team match against Neville and Regal. On May 2, Wyatt was defeated by six-time world champion Chris Jericho in a triple threat elimination match by last pinning Neville to earn a shot at the championship. On July 17, Wyatt defeated Neville and Bo Dallas in a three-way match.
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