https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/1694840084091023529
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgMSo4-PDE
Here, check this out if you have a moment (its ok if you dont, but anyone else passerby as well). This is an example of the kind of creativity Bray had. To quote someone on /r/squaredcircle
"So the pandemic happened, and that was a bad time. But in the face of not having any crowds, it forced wrestling to ask "What else can wrestling be?" And Bray stepped up like it was nothing saying "I gotchu fam."
I really feel like this match was Bray in his ultimate form. Without having to stick to the wrestling format, you got to see just what was going on in there."
Its hard to totally know whats going on without the context of all the history of John Cena's career thats being covered in this match. But I hope it still comes across how special it was.
He was an incredibly charismatic performer. Not the best in the ring, but when he spoke it gripped you like no other. Most of all he was creative. He came up with so many of his own ideas and they were always fascinating and interesting. He played a dark cult leader figure for most of his career, but played around with it and came up with so many interesting twists on it.
Its a devastating loss for the community. And three years ago one of his two original partners in the "Wyatt Family" passed suddenly under very similar circumstances. We also recently lost the legend Terry Funk. It can be hard to be a wrestling fan sometimes because it seems like tragicly losing wrestlers way before their time happens way too frequently. At least there havent been too many drug related deaths over the past few years, so that has improved. But the losses do keep coming.
https://twitter.com/seanrosssapp/status/1694865077621359086
Covid enhanced his heart problems.
This has me feeling the same as when Brodie Lee died: a super talented guy still with so much he wanted to do as a performer. He's gonna be missed for sure