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‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt looks better than ever during WWE hiatus as he shows body transformation in rare out-of-character photo
Bray is looking better than ever (Photo: WWE)
‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt hasn’t been seen on WWE television since the night after WrestleMania 37 but he’s looking better than ever.
The former world champion lost to long-time rival Randy Orton at the annual extravaganza and appeared in the Firefly Fun House on Raw the next night promising a fresh start, but he’s since been absent for well over three months.
However, a fan has shared a photo online of Wyatt in a supermarket and he looks to be in fantastic shape.
He can be seen smiling in the snap and appears to have toned up, with some fans on social media suggesting he’s in the best shape of his WWE career.
Bray put his figure on display in a pair of black shorts and a tank top, with his blonde dreadlocks just visible under a baseball cap.
Now, the question is when fans will see The Fiend back on TV.
There’s been no reason give for his long absence, and recent reports claim there’s no timetable on his comeback either.
He’s been quiet on social media too, with very few posts over the past few months, although last month he did share a gif of himself shrugging and smiling in the Fun House in response to WWE’s SummerSlam announcement.
And on July 15, he replied to a fan saying how much they miss him and simply tweeted: ‘I miss you guys too. Believe me’.
Wyatt has one of the most creative minds in the business, and has constantly evolved his character over the years, including taking his cult leader persona to another level when he transformed into a children’s TV entertainer with a demonic alter ego.
There were other ideas which got scrapped in the past too, with former WWE star Mike Bennett, who returned to Ring of Honor last last year, shedding some light on those plans.
Bennett recently revealed a hint of WWE’s plans (Photo: Ring of Honor/ Mike Adams)
He exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘Early on when Bray Wyatt turned into The Fiend, Vince was always high on having Bray lead a group for some reason – he always wanted him to lead a group.
‘We were about a week away from making it happen where me and Eric Young were gonna be part of Bray Wyatt’s group. We were gonna actually be – they were gonna bring to life the puppets.
‘Each puppet was gonna represent an actual person. I don’t remember, there were talks that I was gonna be Sister Abigail and Eric Young was gonna be a buzzard.’
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Bennett, 36, admitted he was happy with the idea and a chance to take on a very different role, although the old adage of ‘plans change’ turned out to be true in this instance, and it never made it on screen.
Sometimes, though, things do pan out, and Alexa Bliss previously told us how she’d been pitching ideas to work with Wyatt for a long time before it finally came into fruition.
‘I pitched working with Bray a long time ago, and it never really got off the ground just because it didn’t make sense at the time,’ she exclusively told Metro.co.uk. ‘I wanted to have some kind of involvement with his character because it’s so good and so compelling.
‘He commits fully into that and does so much research. He’s so good at his craft and who wouldn’t wanna work with someone like that?’
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