Bray Wyatt: ‘I’m Not an Idiot’

Bray Wyatt is a wrestler who relies on his ability to work the mic to get himself over and to establish his character. The gift of gab is vital to Wyatt. He brought that silver tongue of his to WTOP in Washington D.C. to talk about his career, and in the process he was asked if it was difficult to script his promos. This seemed to be a question that got Wyatt’s goat a bit, but he had a lengthy, well thought out answer for it:

“Everyone always asks me this question and the answer is so simplistic. I’m not an idiot. Everyone thinks of me as some weird swamp trash pro wrestler, and that’s okay think what you want but I’m an intelligent person and I have my own views on the world. I don’t have a script, I don’t sit down and nobody brings me a paper and says ‘It’d be really cool if you say this.’ I speak form my mind and my heart and it’s a lot easier to speak on something that I truly care about. I go on tangents obviously a lot, I’ll have an idea when I go out there, and if I get lost I’ll find my way and snake my way on back through the grape vine. It’s so much easier when I’m in control of everything I’m saying. I feel it.”

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That’s the nature of being a person who inhabits a character in pro wrestling, even in 2016. Wyatt is, indeed, not “some weird swamp trash pro wrestler.” He’s the scion of a wrestling family with a lot of experience. It’s a persona he’s crafted over the years, and it takes a real ability to become this character and to speak at length, often extemporaneously, in character. Maybe people will stop asking Wyatt this question going forward.

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