WWE star Bray Wyatt says ‘The Fiend is dead and gone’ before Pitch Black Match at the Royal Rumble-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Bray Wyatt has claimed The Fiend is no more (Picture: WWE)

WWE superstar Bray Wyatt has insisted The Fiend is ‘gone’ for good.

The former world champion is will compete in the first ever Pitch Black Match at the Royal Rumble tonight – the rules still remain unclear – in what will be his first bout since The Fiend lost to Randy Orton at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022.

Fans have been speculating that Wyatt has been building to a return of the sinister masked character this weekend, but the man himself has given a very interesting answer.

Asked whether he could reunite with Alexa Bliss, who was a big part of The Fiend’s character last time we saw him, he suggested it might not be in the cards.

Speaking to Ryan Satin on Out of Character, he said: ‘I’ll drop some knowledge here. For me, two things. I’ll get to Alexa. The Hawaiian shirt Bray, who he was, he can’t be without Brodie [Lee], to me.

‘So I can’t be that without Brodie, it’s just not the same, it’s disrespectful to my best friend. It just can’t be without me. But The Fiend died that day in Tampa, Florida at WrestleMania, to me.

Fans are waiting to find out which Bray Wyatt we will get at the Royal Rumble (Picture: WWE)

‘Again, The Fiend is not just a goof in a mask like people think, that’s just ridiculous, but to me it’s so much more. Once you see where all these things come from, how they moulded me as a human being – but he died that day, to me.

‘It can never be again. It’s gone. So, I don’t know how people will react to that but in my head it’s gone forever. Alexa, to me, as time goes – [she] was the last happy piece in that, the last shining thing in that, the last happy moment.

‘You can look into that however you want. It sucks, man, but that’s the way it is.’

The question remains what kind of Bray we will see during the Pitch Black Match, and he suggested nothing is set in stone as the storyline continues to evolve.

‘This is different. How do I explain this? It’s more of a free flow. Everything that happens now is organic. I don’t know if you can tell from a television standpoint as much – and I think you can, I really do – but now it’s kind of like when things happen, they happen in the moment,’ he said.

‘There’s not all this big hoopla surrounding it and all of these rules. Things are just happening, and that is the genius of Triple H. When I say that I don’t know what’s going to happen, what it’s gonna be like, I mean from a conceptual standpoint, I don’t know, from a character standpoint, I don’t know.

‘But I do know that this is my return, it’s something I’ve been geared up for for a long time. I’ve trained with boxers, I’ve worked really hard on this to get my head back in order.

‘It will be something that I’m gonna take very seriously, dude, and it’s gonna brutal. It has to be!’

WWE Royal Rumble airs Saturday night (January 28) at 1am on the WWE Network and BT Sport.

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