WWE: 3 Ways To Make Hardy vs. Wyatt The Feud We Deserve
By Warren Hayes
Credit: WWE.com
BETTER VIGNETTES
With the exception of that segment where Matt hardy played chess against Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated as a goldfish, there hasn’t been any of that delightfully absurdist repartee that makes the Woken Matt character so special.
This, gentle reader, is what baffles me most. The attraction to the Broken gimmick has always been about the pre-recorded segments, comprised of a combination of baroque melodrama and straight-up nonsense. These are absolutely necessary in order to develop Woken Matt. We should be seeing Hardy ponder about making Wyatt obsolete, or playing gothic chords on his grand piano, or reading verses of the Seven Deities from the Woken Book. Instead, we get awkward segments of Hardy doing that laugh for 30 seconds straight
As far as Bray Wyatt goes, he hasn’t received any proper love since the Family broke up a year ago. He used to be a mystic cult leader with dark intentions, a true force to be reckoned with. To think that a guy who evoked dread and anxiety with effectively charged promos is reduced to standing in front of a black background, rambling aimlessly while laughing, him too, for 30 seconds straight.
If either of these characters is to live up to the bombast that is at the basis of the Woken Universe, it’s time for WWE to step up the production of vignettes and segments. Even if pro wrestling is already full of larger-than-life characters, Hardy and Wyatt are larger-than-larger-than-life and need more than run-of-the-mill in-ring promos to inspire the audience to get behind them.