Bray Wyatt having a polarizing WWE run featured many different character roles throughout the years. The evolution of his character from the Husky Harris days to the Wyatt Family to The Fiend created a path unlike any other. For better or worse, Bray made sure he was unlike anyone else the industry had ever seen from a character and presentation perspective.
This has led to different wrestlers interacting with him including tag matches. WWE will have any noteworthy talent involved in various tag teams due to the nature of the business. Everyone has to find ways to stay relevant and advance stories. The success for talents finding chemistry with Wyatt were hit or miss. Each of the wrestlers in question would be considered the best or worst tag partners Bray ever had.
10 Best: Braun Strowman
The Wyatt Family run of Braun Strowman wasn’t as long as the other memorable members. However, it truly did add a new dynamic by having a giant monster of a man backing up Bray Wyatt and the others in their various tag matches.
Few matches saw Bray and Braun in traditional tag action, but they thrived in the multi-man tag bouts. Many fans have a negative feeling towards the chemistry of Strowman and Wyatt. However, that had more to do with their stinker of a feud against each other rather than struggling as partner.
9 Worst: Bo Dallas
The real-life brothers of Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas never associating on the WWE main roster is quite surprising. However, they did have a run together in the developmental system of FCW before Wyatt found his ideal character.
WWE initially thought having the real-life brothers teaming up and playing into their legacy as the sons of I.R.S. aka Mike Rotunda would work. The character chemistry wasn’t there as both found more success on their own in the developmental system.
8 Best: Erick Rowan
An underrated chemistry between Bray Wyatt and Erick Rowan saw them working well together in the Wyatt Family. WWE intentionally picked the trio of Bray, Rowan and Luke Harper since they made an intimidating trio together.
Rowan was considered the most limited performer in the group, but Wyatt’s talking made up for any weaknesses. The Wyatt Family without Rowan felt like something was missing, even though they were still having killer matches and segments.
7 Worst: Sheamus
Most fans have zero memory of Sheamus ever teaming with Bray Wyatt since their characters have been distanced for years. However, there was a short week where WWE placed them in multi-tag matches together.
Sheamus untied with Bray and Luke Harper since Erick Rowan wasn’t with them at that point in 2015 against Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton in a losing effort. Another multi-man tag match with more names getting added featured another loss. Sheamus and Bray being on the same team made such little sense that it belongs on the worst side.
6 Best: Matt Hardy
WWE pivoted towards a new act merging both cinematic characters of Bray Wyatt and Woken Matt Hardy together. The Woken persona of Matt started in WWE when feuding with Wyatt. An end game of them teaming after Hardy won the war turned Bray face.
The Eater of Worlds won the Raw Tag Team Championship and had some fun moments together. Unfortunately, Vince McMahon gave up on them at the end for a quicker run when dropping the belts to the B-Team and disbanding quietly.
5 Worst: Curtis Axel
One overlooked time in Bray Wyatt’s WWE career saw him becoming part of the New Nexus under CM Punk’s leadership as Husky Harris. The pairing of Curtis Axel and Bray added new members from the second season of NXT when Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater left Nexus.
WWE placed Wyatt and Axel into a tag team since they had more in common as the new members from the same show. The chemistry wasn’t there and both characters fell flat. New Nexus turned into a huge flop with Punk benefiting most from ending the group to turn face.
4 Best: Randy Orton
WWE deserves more credit for the unique but successful pairing of Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt as a team. Orton joined the Wyatt Family after losing to Bray and showed his allegiance by sacrificing himself in their tag matches.
The duo even won the Smackdown Tag Team Championship together and took part in an all-time great Survivor Series match. Even though the set up was always for them to feud, Orton and Wyatt proved they could have teamed for a long time and had it work.
3 Worst: Alexa Bliss
Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss never officially had a tag match together, but Bliss is considered a partner due to their dynamic. Both supernatural characters worked together against Randy Orton at various points even though those were technically singles matches.
The promising idea started off interesting, but it quickly turned into utter confusion. Alexa’s character was all over the place and took away from The Fiend. The horrible WrestleMania 36 moment of Bliss costing Wyatt a match vs Orton may have been the low point of his character.
2 Best: Luke Harper
The love between Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper aka Brodie Lee saw them becoming even closer friends outside of the ring than in it. No member of the Wyatt Family had stronger chemistry with Bray than Harper when they kept teaming up after the group ended.
Harper was the perfect talent to highlight Wyatt’s strengths and hide his weaknesses. WWE benefited every single time these two were together in the six-man tag matches with Rowan or on their own. Harper had some of the best moments of his WWE career working with Bray in big moments.
1 Worst: Cody Rhodes
The idea of Bray Wyatt and Cody Rhodes being a tag team makes little sense today, but they were united in the second season of the original NXT concept. Cody was the pro/mentor of Bray as Husky Harris when competing in various competitions each week.
The partnership of Wyatt and Rhodes led to multiple tag matches against other duos on the show with the same dynamic. Bray unfortunately couldn’t break out around this time without a strong character and often looked terrible teaming with Cody.