Bray Wyatt

Windham Lawrence Rotunda (May 23, 1987 – August 24, 2023), better known by his <a href="/facts/Ring_name/Slq79cY8">ring name</a> Bray Wyatt, was an American <a href="/facts/Professional_wrestling/wtYLlT50">professional wrestler</a>, best known for his tenures in <a href="/facts/WWE/XwgXLWRT">WWE</a> from 2009 until his death in 2023.
Rotunda was a third-generation wrestler, following in the footsteps of his grandfather <a href="/facts/Blackjack_Mulligan/I99BBcdC">Blackjack Mulligan</a>, his father <a href="/facts/Mike_Rotunda/pD0S22Q3">Mike Rotunda</a>, and his uncles <a href="/facts/Barry_Windham/8JgoQHqj">Barry</a> and <a href="/facts/Kendall_Windham/JNuPrKW4">Kendall Windham</a>. His younger brother Taylor is also a wrestler under the ring name <a href="/facts/Bo_Dallas/cEuIufet">Bo Dallas</a>. Alongside his brother, he held the <a href="/facts/FCW_Florida_Tag_Team_Championship/qT0WRPPL">FCW Florida Tag Team Championship</a> twice while in WWE's then-<a href="/facts/Farm_team/P0f6p6sM">developmental territory</a>, <a href="/facts/Florida_Championship_Wrestling/Ez8ezc0o">Florida Championship Wrestling</a> (FCW). 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 <a href="/facts/The_Nexus_(professional_wrestling)/wkRWqeFm">The Nexus</a> under the ring name Husky Harris.
After returning to WWE's developmental territory, which had been rebranded as <a href="/facts/NXT_(WWE_brand)/9Gp7wsj6">NXT</a>, Rotunda was <a href="/facts/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms/Uhv1cA22">repackaged</a> as Bray Wyatt. Portrayed as the <a href="/facts/Heel_(professional_wrestling)/c5QnY4Qf">villainous</a> leader of a <a href="/facts/Bayou/zWcmIsgG">bayou</a>-dwelling cult called <a href="/facts/The_Wyatt_Family/wM7kyEYn">The Wyatt Family</a>, he returned to the main roster alongside Wyatt Family members <a href="/facts/Luke_Harper/fBAqPYE8">Luke Harper</a> and <a href="/facts/Erick_Rowan/BluGsQfh">Erick Rowan</a> in 2013. He subsequently became a one-time <a href="/facts/WWE_Championship/Is0LCSBJ">WWE Champion</a>, two-time <a href="/facts/WWE_Universal_Championship/91EoHfoL">WWE Universal Champion</a>, one-time <a href="/facts/SmackDown_Tag_Team_Championship/KxQRMnMx">SmackDown Tag Team Champion</a> (alongside Harper and brief Wyatt Family member <a href="/facts/Randy_Orton/B1qT1vSX">Randy Orton</a> under the <a href="/facts/Freebird_Rule/1E2gGIXP">Freebird Rule</a>), and one-time <a href="/facts/Raw_Tag_Team_Championship/1kBeq3RE">Raw Tag Team Champion</a> (with <a href="/facts/Matt_Hardy/3hCwf3cr">Matt Hardy</a>).
After a hiatus from August 2018 to April 2019, Wyatt returned with a new <a href="/facts/Split_personality/VHtKqbus">split personality</a> gimmick, which saw him switch between the two characters of a <a href="/facts/Fred_Rogers/1zC8z6v7">Mr. Rogers</a>-esque children's TV host named Bray Wyatt and a grotesque monster resembling an <a href="/facts/Evil_clown/Q7aMDdeW">evil clown</a> called The Fiend. He was released from WWE in July 2021, but returned in <a href="/facts/Extreme_Rules_(2022)/a9xgC2jL">October 2022</a> with a new character that claimed to be his "real-life" self, though he gradually reincorporated his previous personalities in addition to new ones. In what would become his only televised match during this return, he defeated <a href="/facts/LA_Knight/5nu9og30">LA Knight</a> in <a href="/facts/Royal_Rumble_(2023)/9L1qJQzb">January 2023</a>. 
He took a medical hiatus in February due to an infection and died of a heart attack in August at the age of 36.

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