Top WWE Executive Claims Working With Bray Wyatt Was “Challenging”
A WWE executive recalls what it was like working with Bray Wyatt in WWE.
Bray Wyatt is a future WWE Hall of Famer who sadly passed away at the age of 36 in August 2023. Wyatt was engaged to Jojo Offerman and was a loving father to four children when he died due to COVID complications and a heart attack.
During his WWE career, Wyatt was a main event performer who was a 3-time WWE Champion. He spent some time as a heel and as a babyface, was surprisingly released despite being a main-event performer, and was then brought back for what became his final run.
Bruce Prichard is WWE’s Executive Director, who returned to the company in 2019 after more than a decade away. Wyatt debuted on the main roster in the mid-2010s, but when Bruce returned, he began working with Wyatt, who is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda (aka Irwin R. Schyster).
On his Something To Wrestle podcast, Bruce Prichard said it was a challenge working with Wyatt, but that he loved it.
“Bray was challenging. I loved it. Very challenging man, creative, beyond creative. A guy who’s whose mind was somewhere else all the time, and very challenging and just so much fun, because you could get out there on that plane with him, and then you just started.
The absurdity of it all made it so easy, but difficult at the same time, because you’re trying to explain to someone that, no, this isn’t real. We’re in his mind. Nobody else can do that.”
Bruce Prichard Loved Working With Bray Wyatt
As Prichard continued talking about what it was like working with Bray Wyatt, he made sure to say that it was a joy to work with the leader of the Wyatt Family.
“I enjoyed [it]. God, [I] loved working with Bray. It was and frustrated, too, man. We had some spirited conversations, great conversations that just was, like, ‘No dude,’ he would just fight.
And after a while you had to let him in, you know, all those personalities. Man, they were all they were all in his head and trying to explain the concept of no what you’re looking at, you’re not looking at a fun house.
Man, this isn’t real. You are now inside Bray’s head. And whether that came across or not, that’s what it was. He was a friggin joy…it was incredible.”
WWE has yet to induct Bray Wyatt into the Hall of Fame, but perhaps 2026 will be the year.