On Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown, the Bray Wyatt/John Cena feud escalated even further. Wyatt challenged  Cena to a Firefly Fun House Match at WrestleMania, and much like the A.J. Styles/Undertaker Boneyard Match, no one knows exactly what that is.

This year's WrestleMania will be taped in advance on closed sets. Both the Boneyard and Fun House matches are expected to be filmed in a different way than the rest of the card, which will take the form of traditional in-ring wrestling matches (albeit in an empty arena). WWE has a long tradition of these kinds of gimmick matches, and their quality can vary wildly. Wyatt's two pre-taped matches are as good an example of this as any.

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Wyatt's feud with Randy Orton culminated in the first, and to date only, House of Horrors match at Payback 2017. The match started in the titular house of horrs, but could only be won in the ring by pinfall or submission. The rules were similar to the Boiler Room Brawl match that was one of Mankind's signature gimmick matches, but it didn't have the same kind of staying power.

Considering their feud had already included Orton burning down Sister Abigail's house on SmackDown and Wyatt projecting bugs on the ring at WrestleMania, they really had to go over the top to escalate it. If nothing else, they certainly got the atmosphere down. Orton and Wyatt brawled in a creepy abandoned house out of a Resident Evil game (if Resident Evil had ghost tractors, of course).

The pre-taped portion of the match climaxed with Wyatt dropping a refrigerator on Orton and stealing his limo to return to the arena. Orton somehow made it back unscathed from his fridging, only to succumb to interference from Jinder Mahal and the Singh Brothers, with whom he'd go on to feud with on SmackDown for months. Wyatt won, but wound up being an afterthought in his own specialty match.

Wyatt's other pre-taped match saw him travel to the Hardy Compound to face Matt Hardy in the Ultimate Deletion. It was the one time Matt Hardy truly got to work his magic in WWE after mastering that style of match in TNA/Impact Wrestling. Hardy brought the greatest hits of the Broken Universe to Raw, from Vanguard 1 to the dilapidated boat, defeating Wyatt with a Twist of Fate and tossing him into the Lake of Reincarnation.

That led to Wyatt turning face for the first time in WWE and becoming Hardy's tag team partner. They won the Raw Tag Team Championship at WWE's first Saudi Arabian show, Greatest Royal Rumble, but their reign was short lived, ending at the hands of the B-Team at Extreme Rules 2018.

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Wyatt disappeared from WWE for months after his run with Hardy ended. When he returned, he seemed to have taken some notes from Hardy for his new gimmick. The Fiend has a similar backstory to Hardy's Broken Matt character, who was pushed to a dark place by his in ring failure. Wyatt also created a universe of characters around his reinvention with his troupe of twisted kid's show puppets, similar to how Hardy made his family characters in the Broken Universe.

The auteur sensibilities that Wyatt has developed should serve him well in the Firefly Fun House match. If he can combine the creativity he's shown in the vignettes that have aired on WWE TV with what Hardy has done with the Broken Universe, he and Cena should be able to steal the show on whichever night of WrestleMania they appear on.

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