Bill Apter Clarifies Comments He Made About Bray Wyatt As A “Weird” WWE Champion; Talks Fan Blowback



Legendary pro wrestling journalist Bill Apter‘s podcast Is Wrestling Fixed? was released this morning. It features WWE Hall of Famer Dory Funk Jr. as his guest in a very rare, nearly hour long interview

You can find some of Apter and I’s comments from the top of the show transcribed below.

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NH: I crafted a headline for WrestleZone where I put up the quote about you saying that Bray Wyatt was one of the “weirdest people” to ever hold the WWE Championship. I didn’t think that was a very controversial statement to make because as many people pointed out there’s not a whole lot of characters like Bray to hold that WWE Championship. You have The Undertaker, Mankind and now Bray Wyatt. That’s that island of characters like that. You had some folks that really disagreed with your assessment tho, right?

BA: One of the things that I said was, “How can you put this guy on a talk show?” Which is not negative. He could do that in character which is fine. Bray Wyatt is just phenomenal, I didn’t and wouldn’t say anything negative about him. I’m just saying that he’s not cut from the same cloth as champions that you generally see. He’s different than most of the other champions but he’s still fantastic. As you can see the fans really take to him. I kept getting tweets and e-mails, “Why don’t you like Bray Wyatt? Why don’t you think he’s a good champion?” Well the end of this was last night when I was coming out of Wal-Mart one of the cashier’s Rob, who is a friend of mine, said, “I read what you said on the podcast on WrestleZone. What’s the problem with Bray Wyatt? Why don’t you like him?” I think people are reading in to this that I don’t like him or I don’t like him as champion. That’s not true. What I am saying is that he is a different type of character than you usually see with the belt. You usually don’t see guys with this kind of unusual type of cult image holding the belt. That is what I was trying to say.

Related: Bill Apter Calls Bray Wyatt “One Of The Weirdest People” To Ever Hold The WWE Championship

At the top of this week’s show Bill takes time to discuss a variety of headlines from this past week in wrestling including:

  • The passings of Nicole Bass, George Steele & Ivan Koloff
  • The blowback Bill received on-line for his comments about Bray Wyatt being a “weird” WWE Champion
  • Naomi being forced to relinquish the Smackdown Women’s Championship due to injury
  • The New Day as the hosts of WrestleMania 33
  • DDP being inducted in to the WWE Hall of Fame
  • More…

This episode also includes classic audio from Verne Gagne discussing losing the AWA Championship as well Bill answering fan questions from the #AskApter mailbag.

WrestleZone will have some more of Bill and Dory’s comments transcribed on the site in the coming days.

Related: Bill Apter Asks Jerry Lawler Why He’s Still Wrestling On The Indies & Comments On The Rock-N-Roll Express Joining The WWE Hall of Fame

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