Paul Heyman: Bray Wyatt’s ‘body of work has yet to be truly examined’

Paul Heyman believes history will show Bray Wyatt to be “far more brilliant” than we currently realize.

Heyman spoke to CBS Sports recently while promoting the WWE 2K25 video game. The game’s “Island Mode” released new content on July 11 featuring Wyatt and the Wyatt Sicks titled, “Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal.” Later that same day, The Wyatt Sicks won the WWE Tag Team Championships on SmackDown.

“He understood that character and the characters that were all built within the character, better than anybody else,” Heyman said of Wyatt. “Better than any producer, writer, director that we had on staff or someone else from the outside.”

However, Heyman said that Wyatt’s creative choices sometimes left him confused, such as when he returned in 2022 as the Firefly Funhouse character.

“Why would you allow the vulnerabilities of that character to be shown, especially at this moment upon your return? Yet he did it. With such authenticity that he made us all look bad by saying, ‘What’s he doing? Why would he do this?’ Because he’s so committed.”

Heyman believes that as time goes on and fans begin to dissect Wyatt’s career, they’ll find his work was more layered than previously understood.

“It’s a body of work that has yet to be truly examined,” Heyman continued. “Years from now, when we look back and start to micro dissect what he did, I think we’ll realize he’s even far more brilliant than any of us ever realized.”

Heyman’s full interview with CBS Sports is available below: