Bray Wyatt

Windham Lawrence Rotunda (May 23, 1987 – August 24, 2023) was an American professional wrestler best known for his tenure in WWE from 2009 until his death in 2023 under the ring name Bray Wyatt.

Rotunda was a third-generation professional wrestler following in the footsteps of his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father Mike Rotunda, and two of his uncles, Barry and Kendall Windham. He bagan his career with the WWE in the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) along with his younger brother Taylor Rotunda (Bo Dallas), and held the FCW Tag Team Championship twice. He wrestled under various ring names between 2008 and 2012 in FCW, and wrestled on WWE's main roster from 2010 to 2011 as a member of The Nexus under the ring name Husky Harris.

After returning to WWE's developmental territory, which had been rebranded as NXT, Rotunda was repackaged as Bray Wyatt. Portrayed as the villainous leader of a bayou-dwelling cult called The Wyatt Family, he returned to the main roster in 2013. He subsequently became a one-time WWE Champion, two-time WWE Universal Champion, one-time Smackdown Tag Team Champion and one-time Raw Tag Team Champion.

After a hiatus from August 2018 to April 2019, Wyatt returned with a new gimmick, which saw him switch between the two characters of a children's TV show host named Bray Wyatt and a grotesque monster called The Fiend. He was released from WWE in July 2021, but returned in October 2022 with a new character that claimed to be his "real-life" self, though he gradually reincorporated his previous personalities in addition to new ones. He took a medical hiatus in February 2023 due to a COVID-19 infection that exacerbated a pre-existing heart condition, and died of a heart attack in August at the age of 36.

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