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Spooky wrestling characters struggle to have staying power

The Fiend made his in-ring debut at SummerSlam in twenty nineteen against Finn Balor, and a column argues weekly TV exposure kills the illusion; scary, but only sometimes.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBray Wyatt wrestled as The Fiend just sixty-one times, dark matches and house shows included, according to Cagematch.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSixty-one. For a character like The Fiend. That's a short career for a force of nature.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhich is spiritually Florida. Our haunted swamp is only scary because we cap it at sixty-one visits. Visit sixty-two, it's just a swamp with a gift shop.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWe do not have that rule, Chip. The column says weekly TV turns spooky wrestlers into guys who are just a bit weird.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo every Florida ghost gets a day job and loses the mystery.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis first loss was to Goldberg in Riyadh, February twenty-seventh, twenty twenty, and critics hated that decision. I'd call it a bold early plot-shaping moment.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRating: four alligators, and he wrestled sixty-one of them.

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