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#5 Unpacking the bizarre Swamp fight
We know that there is and will be a heavily-polarizing opinion about the Swamp Fight at Extreme Rules. While many have criticized it without much understanding, we have to realize that there's a lot more underneath the surface that we can only understand after rewatching it multiple times.
Sure, there was a sense of the overall flow being a bit odd, but the Swamp Fight and the entire setting seemed to be a lot more about Braun Strowman and his inner journey than it was about Bray Wyatt itself.
Bray Wyatt technically "won" the fight, but the fight was only a small slice of it. The Swamp represented the past - the place where Braun Strowman came from and where Bray Wyatt tried to take him down an 'evil' path. We got a tease of Sister Abigail's appearance at Extreme Rules, only for Alexa Bliss to shockingly appear in the same outfit instead. She wasn't there, of course, but she represented a part of Braun Strowman's never-seen-before 'desire'. We only got a tease of a romance angle between them in the Mixed Match Challenge, but the MMC was a bubble in itself that had less to do with the other WWE storylines at the time.
The story was seemingly an allegory about Braun Strowman and the journey that Bray Wyatt was 'guiding' him through. Wyatt represented the evil and the side that Strowman desperately wanted to disassociate from, but struggled to do so. That was seen when he was 'attacked' by the Braun Strowman from the past at Extreme Rules.
We're sure that upon rewatching the Swamp Fight at Extreme Rules, we could find various easter eggs, but let's not be quick to write off the cinematic match just because we didn't understand it at first. The finish of Extreme Rules saw Braun Strowman get drowned out by Bray Wyatt while The Fiend returned, indicating that Braun Strowman vs The Fiend for the Universal Championship is what the direction is going to be at SummerSlam 2020.
The Eater of Worlds could be in the past forever now, while Braun Strowman may never be the same again after Extreme Rules.
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