Top RAW Backstage Rumors: Drew McIntyre to feud with legendary icon set to return after a year; 4-time WWE Champion being 'jobbed out'; Unfavorable plans for The Fiend's future (2nd November)

#3 Backstage reason why The Fiend is being inserted into the WWE Championship picture on RAW

Randy Orton beat Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship at HIAC. However, while it appeared that the feud between Orton and McIntyre would linger for long, The Fiend Bray Wyatt has already been inserted into the feud on RAW.

As per Dave Meltzer of WON, the reason behind The Fiend becoming part of the program was merely to protect Drew McIntyre from taking more clean losses at the hands of The Viper.

''Right now it appears Raw will be built around a three-way program with Orton, McIntyre and The Fiend. The idea of keeping McIntyre away from Orton so he doesn't continually challenge and fail, which wouldn't be good for him right now, and build to a big match when fans are back makes all the sense in the world. Except, we don't know when fans will be back. Orton getting a clean win with no storyline protection for McIntyre can tell a story, since McIntyre had two wins over him and Keith Lee has one (that was never mentioned on television and has been seemingly forgotten). It's not necessarily a bad idea, and had McIntyre retained and worked with The Fiend, that's a risk given the way Fiend is very difficult to babyface against without dragging one down badly.''

Although Drew McIntyre being protected makes sense, The Fiend would lose credibility if he consistently keeps losing on RAW.