Alexa Bliss doesn't need to reunite with Bray Wyatt in WWE

While Alexa Bliss would welcome working with Bray Wyatt again, reverting her character back to her Fiend-lite days would be a mistake for WWE.

When asked about her relationship with ex-WWE superstar Bray Wyatt by Metro.UK, Alexa Bliss delivered a quote that will certainly set the wrestling world on fire.

“Before he left, he just said ‘ keep it alive, keep it going', So I took that to heart and tried to keep it alive and going. If he ever did return, a hundred percent I'd want to work with him.”

Yeah, that's certainly not going to generate any unnecessary speculation, is it?

Now granted, since being released by WWE back in 2021, the prospects of where Wyatt would end up has been one of the most intriguing storylines in the greater wrestling world if for no other reason than he simply hasn't been a part of it. He reportedly has a very high asking price to return to the ring, has explored other opportunities outside of the ring in Hollywood, and outside of some signing opportunities, he just hasn't been particularly eager to get back into wrestling – at least not to the same degree as some of his friends like Braun Strowman, who has been wrestling matches in Control Your Narrative under his real name, Adam Scherr.

Could Wyatt, who was born Windham Rotunda, debut in AEW, Impact, NJPW, or even CYN in the not-too-distant future? You bet, but it's just as likely he returns to the WWE, where his unique brand of creativity has been absent for some time now.

With that being said, if Wyatt does return, it shouldn't be reunited with Alexa Bliss, as that aspect of her character should probably stay in the past.

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Alexa Bliss doesn't need to regress back to her previous WWE character.

The prospects of Alexa Bliss becoming a sort of ‘Female Fiend,' was one of the more exciting aspects of the middle era of Bray Wyatt's final run in WWE.

On paper, the idea had everything going for it; The Fiend, though polarizing, was one of the most popular performers in the promotion and the idea of adding a partner in crime opened up oh so many doors for intriguing angles down the line: The Fiends versus Miz and Mrs. in the vein of Edge and Beth Phoenix, Bliss serving as a sort of damsel in distress to fuel Wyatt's pursuits a la Frankenstein, or even flipping that around with Bliss running wild on the Women's division with Wyatt serving as he manager – if you want to call him that – outside of the ring.

And yet, in practice, things didn't quite go as planned, as Bliss and Wyatt only worked together for less than a year, and when “The Fiend” was written off of television with one final Firefly Funhouse appearance, his remaining friend began/continued on with a very strange feud with Randy Orton that probably should have ended well before lighting fixtures were magically falling from the ceiling and things were catching on fire.

Had that feud ended with Bliss' win over Orton at Fastlane, and the diminutive superstar gone full-Fiend on the women's division, maybe fans would have let it slide, but instead, someone in the WWE creative department came up with the, um, genius idea of Lily, the creepy doll who would eventually become the star of a credit card commercial. Bliss feuded with Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, took part in Money in the Bank, and after losing to Charlotte Flair at Extreme Rules in her home state of Ohio, quietly disappeared from the promotion until 2022, where, after a single appearance at the Elimination Chamber in February, she returned to RAW full time with much more of the old Alexa personality but Lily still in tow.

By all accounts, this more-old-than-new Bliss is a winner among her fans; they like that her personality is back, that she's wrestling with a more dynamic style, and that she is having far more engaging backstage interactions than when she was trying to give off shining vibes. While there are still Fiend-y aspects to her presentation, it's much more Hot Topic 2020 than Hot Topic 2003, when everything was black and the store had gothic gates affixed to the outside of the building.

If Wyatt returns to the WWE, would folks really want to see Bliss back to her old style, with duel pigtails, dresses, and Black Parade-esque eye makeup, or would such a move be looked at through a negative lens, with fans lamenting a regression to a character that had been getting better and better with each passing week? Unfortunately, it feels like the latter is the far more likely outcome, even if a hybrid approach could be incredibly interesting if done correctly.