WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt has handed away. The beloved wrestler, recognized for his position because the chief of the Wyatt household and The Fiend, died on the age of 36 after struggling a coronary heart assault.
The demise of Wyatt, whose actual title was Windham Rotunda, was introduced yesterday by WWE chief content material officer and former WWE famous person Paul “Triple H” Levesque on his official Twitter account.
“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 called Bray Wyatt – unexpectedly handed earlier at this time. Our ideas are along with his household and we ask that everybody respect their privateness at the moment,” Levesque wrote.
Wyatt hadn’t been on WWE programming since his closing match in opposition to LA Knight within the Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match on the Royal Rumble in January. On the time, Fightful Choose (by way of Wrestling Inc.) reported that Wyatt took a while away to recuperate from a “career- and life-threatening” sickness.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Choose revealed on Twitter that the rationale Wyatt was sidelined was resulting from his contracting covid, which reportedly exacerbated his coronary heart points.
“There was numerous constructive progress in direction of a return and his restoration,” Ross Sapp tweeted. “Sadly at this time he suffered a coronary heart assault and handed away.”
The third-generation wrestler first debuted in WWE in 2010 as Husky Harris earlier than being repackaged because the cultist chief of the Wyatt Household in 2013 alongside Erick Rowan and the late Luke Harper. Wyatt would later headline Wrestlemania in a match in opposition to The Undertaker, win the WWE tag workforce championships, and develop into the WWE World Heavyweight and Common Champion. Towards the tip of his profession, Wyatt took the WWE universe by storm with the debut of his new character, The Fiend: an amalgamation of a Blue’s Clues-esque TV host and a Freddy Krueger-like horror villain.
WWE superstars John Cena, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Alexa Bliss, in addition to AEW superstars like Wyatt’s former tag workforce accomplice Matt Hardy, shared their heartbreak over Wyatt’s passing on social media.
Wyatt was the kind of wrestler who may have an viewers hanging on the sting of their seats, whether or not it’s from the superior pageantry of his ever-creative Firefly Funhouse segments, his otherworldly entrances, or his explosive in-ring strikes. Wyatt’s notoriety throughout the world {of professional} wrestling ultimately led to a touching second the place The Undertaker handed the torch to Wyatt as the corporate’s subsequent phenom. Wyatt’s passing additionally comes days after the passing of WWE Hall-of-Famer Terry Funk.