It’s not an exaggeration to say that Windham Rotunda, a.k.a. Bray Wyatt, was a singular talent. In both his original incarnation as a cult-like figure who dripped with menace, and later as a man who manifested his dark side as The Fiend, Rotunda was able to capture the imaginations of WWE fans repeatedly over the course of his career.
The possibility that there was still more to come is one of the things that made the news delivered by Paul “Triple H” Levesque this week, that Rotunda’s family revealed he had passed away unexpectedly, so devastating. Just weeks removed from hopeful reports that he might return to WWE in the near future, the wrestling world had to process the fact that instead, he was gone.
As it often does in times like these, social media provided a way for wrestlers and others who worked with Rotunda to remember and honor him in the wake of his passing.