Saturday’s WWE Extreme Rules show featured the delivery of the biggest teased return in more than one year, with Bray Wyatt showing up in a heavily orchestrated segment at the end of the show.
The Wyatt return had been teased for several weeks. Reminiscent of AEW’s return of CM Punk in Chicago last year, it was never directly advertised, but teased through a number of clues to where everyone was expecting it to happen.
As the show was signing off after the conclusion of the Matt Riddle–vs.–Seth Rollins main event, the lights went out. The crowd knew exactly what this was as cellphone lights lit up the arena, as was done when Wyatt was formerly in the company. Then there was a rendition of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” a song that Wyatt used to sing when he first became a major star in WWE.
