If you didn’t love watching Randy Orton burn down the Wyatt Family’s tool shed/grave site for Sister Abigail, chances are you haven’t been a pro wrestling fan for very long.
Bray Wyatt‘s championship invocation did not go quite as planned when Randy Orton turned his back on his master and literally burned down the Wyatt’s compound as well as the “remains of Sister Abigail.” Orton may have broken a few laws along the way, but he made it clear that he was coming for Wyatt’s WWE Championship at Wrestlemania.
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This was one of the most throwback, over the top wrestling angles we’ve seen in a long time.
WWE dipped back into their supernatural bag of tricks to kick off a ridiculous and amazing payoff to the six month long storyline between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt.
Click through the slides to see how the WWE Twitterverse reacted to the unexpected Smackdown ending.
Holy hell what an ending to smackdown and looks like it’s gonna be Wyatt/Orton/Styles at Mania! #SDLive #WWE
— WrestlingNewsSource (@WNSource) March 1, 2017
If Randy really wanted to piss him off he should’ve had sex with the Sis Abby corpse like Triple H did Kane.#SDLive
— Dr HUGENSTEIN? (@DrHugeShow) March 1, 2017
“What about the cameraman who’s inside that building?!”
— Ben Penrod (@AwesomestBen) March 1, 2017
-8yo #SDLive
Wait have the Hardys already signed with WWE? This is some @MATTHARDYBRAND shit right here
— Trina (@themarkysmark) March 1, 2017
Looks like @RandyOrton just deleted Sister Abigail and @WWEBrayWyatt is broken. #SDLive
— WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) March 1, 2017
It’s literally lit. #SDLive
— Torri Yates-Orr (@TorriYatesOrr) March 1, 2017
This Randy the zombie death girlfriend killer is Everything #SDLive #Wrestlemania
— Demon Diva (@WWEDemonDiva) March 1, 2017
Randy Orton about the drop the Hottest Mixtape of 2017 #SDLive pic.twitter.com/mWiybe8uju
— RantwithAnt (@RantWithAnt) March 1, 2017
I guess burning down someone’s sanctuary makes you a babyface. RAN-DY! RAN-DY! RAN-DY! #SDLive
— Stoney Keeley (@StoneyKeeley) March 1, 2017
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