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Santana Garrett Joining the Wyatt Family is the Weirdest Rumor of the Day

From @SantanaGarrett_ on Twitter
Every now and then the rumored introduction of the mysterious Sister Abigail character to the Wyatt Family pops up and a new name comes up just about every single time. At one point it was rumored that Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas' real life sister Mika Rotunda would take the role, and at another point Seth Rollins' girlfriend and former NXT trainee Zahra Schreiber (you know, the one that "really likes history")would be Sister Abigail, but neither of those have come to fruition. Now, we have another rumored Sister Abigail, and it's probably the strangest rumor out of them all.
Independent wrestler Santana Garrett tweeted the photo above yesterday, with the caption "Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening' #WakeUp". The photo shows a woman in a white dress in the middle of the woods, holding a lantern and wearing a sheep mask. The lantern is a staple of Bray Wyatt's entrance, and the sheep mask is very similar to the ones worn by Wyatt Family members Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman during their entrance. This tweet comes two days after Garrett wrestled at the most recent NXT tapings.

Garrett is well known for her brief time in TNA as Brittany, where her gimmick was that she sucked and nobody liked her (that's not being mean, that's pretty much what her gimmick was). Her biggest storylines were a lesbian angle with Madison Rayne (think the Trish and Mickie storyline, only lame and under developed) and managing Samuel Shaw until she left the company. Outside of TNA, she has been incredibly successful on the independent wrestling scene, becoming somewhat of a face of independent women's wrestling. She currently holds 14 different championships (12 singles, 2 tag team) in 13 different promotions (according to her Wikipedia page), and she is also a former NWA World Women's Champion, a former Shine Champion, and was ranked #4 on Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Female 50 of 2015, the highest of any non-WWE Diva.
While it would be great to have another experienced female wrestler down in NXT, Garrett as a Wyatt doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense. Look at these pictures of Garrett & The Wyatt's side by side:


Case and point. Second; do the Wyatt's really need Sister Abigail? I mean, no offense to Garrett, but what would be the actual purpose of Sister Abigail. Promos? They've got Bray for that. Would she wrestle? If she wouldn't, then it would be a huge waste of talent. Why would you hire a wrestler and then pay them to do non-wrestling things (*cough cough* Jimmy Jacobs *cough*)? It doesn't make much sense.
Weather the rumor is true or not (it seems way to weird to be true), I would love to see Santana Garrett come into WWE as a wrestler. She would be a great addition to an NXT women's roster that (admittedly) lacks real stars outside of Bayley and Asuka. As for her becoming Sister Abigail, I'm not a fan, just because I feel it would be a waste of her talents. But hopefully she continues her success in wrestling where ever she goes.

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