WWE should use Bray Wyatt to save Bobby Lashley

Firefly Fun House has made for great vignettes on Raw this month, but it’s time for WWE to bring Bray Wyatt back into the ring to save Bobby Lashley.

The WWE deserves a ton of credit for their repackaging of Bray Wyatt. His “Firefly Fun House” segments have been some of the best stuff on Monday Night Raw over the past few weeks. Now it’s time to bring the former Eater of Worlds back into the ring.

The company doesn’t deserve the same level of plaudits for how they’ve used Bobby Lashley since his return to the WWE. Everything the former TNA Champion has touched in WWE has been met with justifiable disdain from fans. Only the use of Lio Rush as his mouthpiece during his feud with Finn Balor made his presence tolerable.

Instead of lamenting Lashley’s inability to get over with the WWE Universe, Vince McMahon and company should try something new with their sculpted Superstar. The company should send Lashley into the Firefly Fun House.

Or rather, the company should bring the Firefly Fun House to Raw to battle with Lashley. It’s really the perfect use for both grapplers. Wyatt isn’t the greatest in-ring worker in the company, but he’s absolute fire when he’s given time to express himself on the microphone. He can carry the verbal portion of his feud with Lashley with ease.

Lashley’s job would be to make sure he carries the physical aspects of what should be a lengthy battle. He’s big enough to legitimately manhandle Wyatt around the ring. In the matches themselves, Lashley needs to be the one working heel. He’s completely unable to work a match as a credible baby face.

Some fans might believe Wyatt should come back as a heel, but his gimmick is entirely too over to elicit boos on a regular basis. He’s going to be cheered wildly the minute he returns to a WWE ring. Any attempt the company makes to paint him as a villain is going to fall short. Wyatt can easily be portrayed as sadistic, but he and his cast of puppet characters have already endeared themselves to fans around the WWE Universe.

In the end, Wyatt needs to go over in any feud he enters into upon his return — the years of his losing must finally end. Lashley has lost a few too many matches lately, but his obvious physical power is going to allow him to manage another loss. WWE creative needs to take Firefly Fun House to the next step. If they use its return to initiate a high-profile feud between Wyatt and Lashley it’s going to kick-start the careers of both Superstars.