Bo Dallas recalls how WWE initially passed on the Uncle Howdy character, as he heard that the company did not want him and Bray Wyatt to work together.
Bray Wyatt returned to WWE at WWE Extreme Rules 2022. Unce Howdy made his debut shortly thereafter, and this brief run allowed Bray and his brother, Bo Dallas, to work together. The run was cut short, as Wyatt passed away in August 2023.
Speaking with CBS Sports’ Shakiel Mahjouri for SHAK Wrestling, Bo Dallas was asked to comment on when he learned about the Uncle Howdy pitch.
“I don’t know the exact date, it gets a little sketchy because when me and my brother left, we both knew we were gonna come back to wrestling at some point, we just didn’t know when,” Bo Dallas said. “During that time, me and him filmed a little show hunting monsters and stuff. But in that, we started hanging around each other, and that led to us talking about wrestling. That led us to talking about all these ideas. So we had books and books of different ideas going forward for months, and we decided we wanted to come back and work together for the first time.
“That was our idea that we were wanting to do that. If we were coming back, we were gonna come back as a team. So initially that was the idea, and then we started talking to the company, and some things happened, and we kind of signed around the same time, but we kind of got word that maybe they didn’t want us to be together.”
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“We had already had a bunch of ideas to go forward,” Bo Dallas said. “I started working on other stuff, and then some stuff happened, and I got the call that essentially, all of our ideas that we had previously talked about, that’s what they wanted to do, and we were getting the chance to work together.
“So I don’t know when it happened, kind of got excited and then sad, and then overly excited when I got the news, like it’s actually happening. Don’t know the timeline of it, but that’s kind of the bullet points of the ups and downs.”
Bo Dallas returned to WWE television in June as the leader of the Wyatt Sicks.
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