The Fiend defeated by goo, Randy Orton, Alexa Bliss at WWE WrestleMania: Bryan, Vinny & Craig Show

The Fiend was undone by goo, Randy Orton and Alexa Bliss. [April 12, 2021]
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[@SASKOWWE]

"The Fiend looks up and he goes, FUCK" quote of the year by Bryan

[@josebarrientos4485]

Dude I was dying on that 😭🤣

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Bryan's having one of his patented meltdowns over this and it's hilarious.

[@michaelrivera8360]

Imagine if The Fiend actually said that🤣🤣

[@josebarrientos4485]

@@michaelrivera8360 omg that would make it even sweeter

[@davo312]

this bit reminded me why I listen to these dudes lmao

[@Thedirtmaster77]

I'm watching this while on a toilet like structure.

[@kidneystonermusic]

I'm watching it on a phone-like apparatus

[@kicsiszol]

So do i 😆

[@captainchuppachup]

Ditto

[@hiddenbutdeadly]

a box like structure with a hole looking hole in it?

[@luckyjosh7]

I'm listening to this via a headphone-like apparatus.

[@Radman1889]

You forgot the story of the match: The Fiend got ‘Worst Match of the Year’ TWO years in a row, and the idea was... “Let’s go for the hat trick!”

[@SebastianMikulec]

If nothing else, Bray Wyatt is consistent (ly bad).

[@johns3491]

And also, "Why not get this coveted award by performing this match at Wrestlemania in front of live people for the first time in almost a year".

[@SadNYGuy]

Which other matches were worst of the year?

[@JCJHn]

He wanted to Jordan it then? Let’s hope he doesn’t go for another 3 more titles 🤭

[@tuben9217]

Bray Wyatt is the Kenta Kobashi of the worst match of the year

[@TophDaGreat]

The Eater of pins has returned!

[@tw475]

but after he seen Alexa something happened where he wasn't same Fiend that got up from 10 curb stomps or whatever

[@ivanpabon2741]

Yup

[@gqn2]

I’m surprised WWE didn’t call the box a containment facility.

[@jordanakram5573]

ICE would've had something to say about that

[@BlazedApples]

I'm crying reading this comment 😂😂😂

[@gabeblack8247]

"a miniaturized, six sided containment facility"

[@shanestephens4728]

LOCAL containment facility

[@trtx84]

Randy held The Fiend's shoulders down with a pin-like manuever.

[@assisttheIZFAS]

You wanna talk about long term storylines with payoffs, Bryan Alvarez had been telling everybody that this storyline was shit for months and months. Then finally, on the first show with fans in just over a year, they boo the hell out of this. If that isn't a slow burn payoff, I don't know what is.

[@iammayyz]

they were cheering for fiend in the match, they only booed at the end cause they made bray lose again via distraction

[@assisttheIZFAS]

@@iammayyz And so, it was bad as a result. If a really bad ending deflates the crowd that hard, it'll always lower the quality of a match no matter what. The Exploding Barbed Wire match was pretty great up until the finish too, but you'll never see anybody talk about that. You'll see people call AEW a outlaw mud-show or whatever Jim Cornette buzzword all the marks steal from him to make themselves sound cool. That's what happened to that match, and that's what's happening to this match.

[@SuperSaiyanBroku]

Randy is the fiends kryptonite

[@Guardian978]

Someone else mentioned it already but no, they were into this the whole way until it ended with ... nothing.

[@assisttheIZFAS]

@@Guardian978 And I already explained why it doesn't matter if the crowd was into it until then end to that same guy. Don't get me wrong, I would like to see this storyline be good. Hell, I would like EVERY storyline to be good. But forgive me if I can't help but feel vindicated when I see people fall for the same shit over and over again. And in the case of Bray Wyatt/The Fiend, they keep destroying his storylines and pushes and still people come back hoping that his current run is THE run that finally establishes him as a major star with no strings attached. It feels like an abusive relationship at this point, which honestly you can say about every other bad thing WWE does. They're like Disney. Everybody knows they're a soulless, scummy corporation, but because they have everybody's childhoods by the nutsack they can never truly boycott them.

[@slamhubwrestling]

"FALLING CRAVAT" That Killed Me Man 😂

[@Blakkjezus]

The whole match was booked exclusively for Alvarez to destroy it. The match didn't disappoint and neither did Alvarez. 50/10 all around.

[@xristosdomini7249]

The ultimate in 50-50 booking.

[@ezio_auditore5425]

Ahh yes, I was waiting for this Alvarez “I told you so” moment

[@marcusgray6501]

Same !!! Truly going back and watching the bits of randy and Alexa ..JUST to make it to this video imma make a compilation of this on Twitter it’s golden 😂

[@assisttheIZFAS]

@@marcusgray6501 Please do. It'll be glorious

[@JeremyBearimy913]

Bryan's rant about the Randy-Fiend match was twice as long as the Randy-Fiend match...

[@xristosdomini7249]

And the match was about twice as dumb as folks anticipated. Seems fair. 😂🤣

[@BluSpykz]

Goo didn't distract Randy because, over the last few weeks, Randy has become one with the goo. And the goo has become one with him.

[@alpha068]

The Goopex predator.

[@welowee7610]

GKO

[@Hemolul]

😭😹😹😹😹

[@viciouslysilent]

RKGoo outta nowhere!!!! Bah gawd!! There's goo everywhere!!!! Edit: we gonna now have to make up new moves using goo, new trend.

[@dokuganryu1565]

And then he shakes your hand

[@jfh.8064]

Remember when The Fiend was awesome for about one month? And then Hell in a Cell happened... then Goldberg... then everything after and this. He’s done

[@hiddenbutdeadly]

Correction BRAY was awesome, and now he's just "there"

[@gkgyver]

You can buy his toy belt for only a month's paycheck, though.

[@coryakabueze4541]

The fiend is dead

[@hiddenbutdeadly]

@@coryakabueze4541 Yep, no-one can argue that now, he went from a unstoppable juggernaut unable to be defeated, kicking out of everything, to being being in 6 minutes with one move

[@zackreynolds21]

Well, blaming Goldberg for the awful booking is ridiculous. Why not blame The Fiend for not going through with it? Is that what was expected of Goldberg. In the words of Booker T,”Don’t hate the playa’, hate the game.”

[@Vesperitis]

"Let's see how this plays out."

[@Funkmonkv1]

😂

[@PrimeIsCrime]

I was never into the Fiend Randy feud. But when that ending happened, I was still so pissed.

[@DavidBaillie1986]

This is what we were waiting for and as always Bryan didn't disappoint 😂

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

And as always WWE did.

[@MrReganomics1]

So is this the f4w version of a Cornette AEW rant?

[@2jebeal]

He was right though we knew this match was going to get people booing they sure have did this match was terrible and one night they buried Bray Wyatt and Asuka this was a damn shame

[@zemox2534]

@@ArcaneAzmadi When it comes to disappointing fans, at least WWE are consistent.

[@th3seek3r60]

"GoOoOoOoOoOo" -Bryan Alveraz,finally loosing it after analyzing the orton/bray storyline over and over again

[@clayhamric4428]

It makes you wonder how Vince is ever going to book himself out of this mess. He's really box-like structured himself into a corner.

[@Cluv22]

"She starts turning the knob...." "Excuse me..." 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@foodmatrix4578]

I’d pay $7.99 a month to never have to see Orton vs Wyatt again.

[@DayFul]

Lance listed the WWE title holders after mania Bianca is the only babyface champion, WWE's return gift to fans was heat, heat and more heat.

[@Yasith14]

Wait rhea is a heel?!!

[@dennett316]

@@Yasith14 She attacked Asuka during that tag team match they had, made her the defacto heel of the match. They might try to play it off and spin her around to being a face again, but it definitely seemed a heelish move.

[@dennett316]

It's like they've forgotten how to book babyfaces, except we know they haven't, because they booked Drew as a strong face champion for quite a while. So they must just not care most of the time.

[@Sassssky]

@@dennett316 I wanted Roman and Bobby to retain lol

[@Shmiguelly]

5 babyfaces won across both nights. Cesaro, Strowman, Bad Bunny/Priest, Belair, Owens. Belair v Banks was two babyfaces, so only 4 matches ended with the babyface overcoming the heel.

[@JDfromNY]

Somehow, someway they managed to have a worse match than Mania 33. That in itself is a testament to how bad this garbage is

[@marcusgray6501]

Bryan called it !!! he said in 3 weeks I can’t wait to see what happens live... because it’s gonna be shit...ladies and gentlemen it was shit 😂 😂 😂

[@Abalamski]

I mean it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out it was going to be shit. You can look back at the house of horrors match they had few years ago. The wrestlemania match they had 4 years ago. I’m not sure how this is a surprise to anyone

[@jaywilliams4770]

@@Abalamski yet people are in these commenting defending it and wwe lol

[@namelessjedi2242]

It was a shit-like substance.

[@dustinrhodes4793]

@@Abalamski I was at that house of horrors match in San Jose, CA. I remember the video of the start of the match, it was at night time..... But after the show ended, it was still daytime in San Jose lol

[@deesj408e6]

@@dustinrhodes4793 I was there too lol I still remember the boos throughout 🤣

[@youngwisdome]

My new hobby: Not watching wwe and listening to how bad it was. Somehow this is more entertaining!

[@namelessjedi2242]

Yeah, you don’t get all the pain this way.

[@joshzumstien6289]

Dude, I've been doing that for years now, its great!

[@CapitanoCharismatico]

I'm a whole year "wwe-free", just a F4W Video once in a while to peek in. AWESOME YEAR, so much time well spent.

[@sebass4379]

I love when Bryan is recapping a regular match that shouldn’t be a regular match and he enunciates the wrestling terminology to a comedic level... “He gives him his move, a falling cravat! And then gets the PIN FALL! And leaves as he has received the W and the winner’s half of the purse!”

[@philipsmith6561]

It makes sense. One time a guy murdered my family and man, he didn't see that La Magistral cradle coming at all. Revenge was mine.

[@Scotticus25]

*Alexa comes out with a box* Randy - WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

[@Raze_DJ2]

That match was straight garbage, don't even try to justify that "match".

[@TheNuGeekz]

This video should be titled “Everything Wrong With The WWE In 10 Minutes or less”.

[@luckyjosh7]

"But.....but.....LeT's SeE hOw It PlAyS oUt!!1!!!!11!!"

[@PeteSanctions]

The "box" comment reminds me of when Rikishi confronted Piper with a coconut in his hand and the commentators had to pretend like they didn't know what it was till later

[@BluSpykz]

My daughter's 8. She's not had a jack in the box since she was 5 - and even then her interest had waned quicker than ours with The Fiend (by the time she was 3.) So. Alexa is 3.

[@retrokoh]

Interest in the Fiend? Fiend wasn't a thing when she was 3. Fiend debuted in 2019. You mean wyatt in general?

[@joshsfox6266]

@@retrokoh My interest in The Fiend and WWE ended at Hell in the Cell against Rollins. You cannot have an invulnerable wrestler and I didnt need to feel like I was watching wrestling while looking through red sweet papers. I only watch these videos because I find it hilarious how WWE just seem to destroy anything on a constant basis.

[@retrokoh]

@@joshsfox6266 Facts... That Hell in a Cell was an utter atrocity on multiple levels

[@MasterPancakes]

I was a Fiend fan, but that whole thing was the "jumping the shark" moment for me.

[@zackreynolds21]

I get it...but it wasn’t Bray’s fault

[@ExSpectre]

I love The Fiend and I couldn’t agree more with the rant Bryan had. Holy fucking fuck was this awful.

[@Diego_C_42]

When I saw the box my immediately thought was that the ending would be The Fiend throwing Randy into the box and then right after the box would explode. But then two weeks later Randy would appear on Raw like nothing ever happened 😂

[@zackreynolds21]

Still would’ve been far better than the reality

[@robertbiberstine642]

1:35 “‘Scuse me?” Two words and I’m dead.

[@RandallB21]

That match further confirms my opinion that The Fiend gimmick was crap from the start. I’ve hated this since day one. Love your description of that match.

[@777mvtt]

It really isn't the gimmick though bro, it's how WWE is making it out to be. Booking is shit, ideas are shit, everything is shit. I heard Bray Wyatt is booking all of this himself though, like wtf

[@Lebosh23435]

@@777mvtt If that’s true about Bray then you can’t blame WWE, it’s his idea and clearly isn’t coming off the way he wants on tv.

[@LibraSnakeLibraSnake1018]

The Fiend should be renamed The Friend just to emphasize that he’s supposed to be a babyface

[@tsuneomccormick115]

If it weren't for the tag team turmoil match, Fiend vs Randy Ortan would've been the worst match out of both nights of Wrestlemania 37.

[@FrozenSurf]

Falling cravat out of nowhere!

[@hevykevy316]

Remember ALL the Seth Rollins stomps the Fiend kicked out of. And the time he destroyed Balor. All for nought.

[@BrolyLSSJ01]

They had the fucking Fiend no sell ELEVEN Stomps AND a Pedigree, but yet ONE RKO is apparently enough to beat him. Even before that, they had The Fiend stay down for a two count after ONE D-Bry Knee, even though he kicked out of TWELVE of Seth's finishers at one. The Fiend's inconsistent booking is fucking garbage and plagued the character ever since HIAC 2019.

[@sahilhalarnkar5412]

They could have had a Firefly Funhouse Match similar to last year's with the Fiend going over and everything would have been forgiven.

[@namelessjedi2242]

(Fans boo the match) Vince: “Are the WWE Universe saying ‘boo’ or ‘goo’?”

[@yesway980]

Unless you are lucky enough to be one of his chums, there's is absolutely no way Orton is putting you over.

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Buried him in 2017, buried him in 2021. Both times it was awful.

[@yesway980]

@@ArcaneAzmadi Orton is awful.

[@megadischarge7541]

@@yesway980 I don't think Orton decides these things he seems like the type of guy that just does what he's told so if Vince tells him to go out there and pin the fiend thats what he will do, if Vince tells him to go out there and drop the belt to Mcintyre a week after winning it that's what he does blaming and hating Orton seems to me like you're ignoring the root of the issue Orton does not book the show or results he just does what he's told.

[@nellyp2622]

Even if it was backstage politics or Orton playing a creative control card and refusing to do the job, they could have at least put on a decent match.

[@yesway980]

@@megadischarge7541 Orton has sway on his booking, especially concerning this dud feud with The Fiend.

[@timothyfrick2305]

Vince cannot book the fiend Bray Wyatt to save his life. At this point, Bray is just better off going to AEW. Maybe he can become the new leader of the Dark Order and actually get good booking.

[@joshzumstien6289]

There's a cool idea.

[@emperorjack8946]

It's such good shit pal!

[@xristosdomini7249]

I mean... As we all know, anyone who comes out of a box is automatically over, right??? 😂😂😂

[@NickCorvello]

Lmao the banter on the topic of wives was so friggin funny 😆

[@magicman00005]

Such good goo pal!

[@kenshiro1075]

Bryan vs The Fiend storyline was the best thing at Wrestlemania: it had a better build than most matches on the card, and the babyface triumphed in the end.

[@Skizzy034]

Remember when WWE fans tried to convince everyone that Vince wasn’t going to fuck up The Fiend?

[@wasabiiu4169]

The Falling Cravat 😂 yooo that is in term so correct, its funny

[@MagicBavarian]

The crowd seemed like they were really giving it a chance, chanting holy shit and everything, and they blew it. Also they started not only muting crowds the first night back but even playing fake chanting...

[@nicholasgoetz7212]

I been waiting for this rant for months!

[@ColorStaticOfficial]

Just hearing Bryan recap the match had me laughing so hard I was dizzy. I didn't have the confidence to bet on Bray because of how badly they've fucked him before, but I should've used that as a context clue to bet my house on Randy!

[@jesterr7133]

No one has mentioned the fact that this is the second time he has gotten his ass kicked in a universally panned match at Wrestlemania by Randy Orton.

[@Yes_Boy]

During this channel's livestream, they said "well guess we gotta tune in to Raw now." 🤣🤣

[@c.a.t4607]

It's a crime with how badly wwe has screwed up the fiend gimic and turned it into whatever the hell this was....

[@GQFJB]

That Camera man is lucky dude.

[@robcrowe1202]

This is Bryans Magnum Opus, his finest, funniest and most rigtheous rant.

[@kierenbuckley370]

The Eater of Pins

[@kevinmevoli2828]

New character.... still the same eater of pins

[@gn0015]

I love hearing Bryan saying "The Fynnnn" every single time.

[@SuperSaiyanBroku]

Ortons new deal must of included he never lose to bray Wyatt....

[@jasonkantola4439]

I know you guys find the fiend hokey, but it got me back into watching wrestling on a regular basis as a big horror movie buff. Sucks what they have done to him.

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

You must have shit taste in horror movies to like this Fiend stuff.

[@joaosequeira2405]

One of the funniest matches I've seen. Pissed myself laughing

[@DougJK]

4:23 Imagine if Bray yelled this hahah

[@alazkaalazka6087]

One of the worst matches in Wrestlemania history. Bray is done

[@markrobinson9394]

This is so ridiculous. The feud was built off Randy burning the Fiend to a crisp, and culminates in a standard wrestling match with a pinfall win... for the heel who burned the babyface to a crisp. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Vince McMahon Booking 101.

[@Luke.S2099]

My favourite part was when The Fiend got magically restored during his entrance, also the Holy Shit chants for the Goo. Just wtf?

[@xristosdomini7249]

Are we *positive* they were chanting "Holy Shit" and not "What the shit"?

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

I was laughing hard when Bryan was like you know who it didn’t distract, Randy he was like goooooo who gives a fuck I’m going to hit my move

[@MovieEggman]

WWE can’t show Randy Orton coughing up blood but they can show him vomiting what looks like Used Motor Oil.

[@brenooliveira413]

The crowd booing that final and booing The Bellas attacking Bayley was such good shit.

[@777mvtt]

Exactly, except the bellas attacking bayley. U can hear boos during it lol. Bayley's a fan favorite. Yeah she's heel but she's entertaining

[@gabeblack8247]

This is up there with the gold boat rant

[@mynameisjohnjackajoe]

I don't get it. They made the Undertaker gimmick work for a decade or more and somehow continuously botch The Fiend gimmick. How come that WWE can't book these kind of characters anymore?

[@ktownshutdown21]

The better Undertaker feuds still had stakes involved to keep things tethered to Earth, like "oh no, The Ministry kidnapped Steph, we gotta save her!" or something. This feud? They got caught up way too much with the spooky wooky special effects bullshit, forgetting to tell an actual story in the process.

[@BaithNa]

The Undertaker was in a lot of garbage feuds too

[@logandavis3316]

The booing legit blew my ears out, so fucking funny

[@slavetothesystem1100]

Expectation: " Oooooh so dark ! Such deep storytelling ! " Reality: " ... the fuck ?!? "

[@OneManGSG]

I can’t wait until this Fiend stuff is over. I used to love Bray with the Wyatt family. I hate this version of Bray, it’s too corny to me & that Firefly Fun House stuff is even cornier

[@OneManGSG]

& by over I mean over with

[@jesterr7133]

And The Fiend looks at Alexa and goes "FUUUUCK!" lmfao

[@TotallyAwesomeWrestlingTAW]

The *FALLING CRAVAT* killed me

[@REVOisMYname]

Randy orton has had the power of goo his entire career, was just hiding it as a trump card

[@Its2D4Life]

4:22

[@zackreynolds21]

We got another Fiend burial... and ANOTHER Roman coronation at Wrestlemania... BOO THIS COMPANY

[@jonpower9728]

Maybe they were saying GOOO and not BOOO!

[@BaithNa]

GOOO-tista!

[@Kmcgonigle0]

The goo could Be one of two things ether Vigo the Carpathian or the resurrection of Ivan Ooze

[@retrokoh]

At Summerslam 2019, I was stoked to see the Fiend. I was excited, and the Balor match was fun. EVERYTHING they did with the Fiend since then has been absolute trash.

[@gabeblack8247]

He peaked at his debut

[@777mvtt]

@@gabeblack8247 But that's the thing he shouldn't have. The character isn't as hard to book as some think.. wwe is just so stupid. They rushed him to the title scene lol. It ruined lots of things.

[@Its2D4Life]

The best part of this match was going thru Twitter and reading the tweets about Fiend lore.

[@TreasureTrain]

I could listen to Bryan bitch about anything. Perfect rage voice

[@loganjonesTTMS]

I thought these two were old enough to know what a Jack-in-the-box is 😂

[@wolfcola3401]

I think it was more of a joke about what the announcers called it at wrestlemania.

[@Bullet_Club]

Holy shit am I glad I don't watch WWE, I just always love listening to these reviews.

[@BaithNa]

Dodged a bullet on this one

[@broler]

wwe has been the judge and juror or their own booking for 1 year playing the reactions they wanted on the speakers. and now that the real juror was back, it back fired on them spectacularly

[@sinicalypse]

#SemperviveNation represent!

[@shumpwumbus2813]

They also couldn't get back into the box in time, and when the lights came back on they were still trying to climb into the box to be hauled off, that's why it was the massive wide shot of the whole arena lmao

[@t5dagreat]

Dude, I been checked outta this nonsensical, magical, mystical bs!

[@drewtiberiusarundale]

It was a textbook box.

[@Slop_Dogg]

GOO!!

[@nottelling8456]

this match was certainly.... something, that's for sure.

[@jasontheworldisyours]

"She starts turning the knob" Excuse me

[@Funkmonkv1]

I thought it was hilarious that they gave Fiend his old mask back after they put the burnt Fiend mask up for sale on WWE Shop.