WWE Raw star Bo Dallas’ and the Wyatt Sicks are one of the most beloved factions in WWE in large part because they are continuining something that the late Bray Wyatt was heavily invested in before his passing.
While speaking with SHAK Wrestling (scroll to see the video) Bo Dallas talked about seeing Bray Wyatt’s creation come to life on RAW:
“It’s unbelievable. It’s what keeps me going. This is why I’m doing this. My brother, he never stopped. He was on 24/7 and always thinking of ideas. Right before his passing, we got the first chance to work together, that for the first time, we’d been waiting our entire careers to kind of throw all these ideas together. So we were getting excited like little kids, like we’ve never done it before, and just calling each other at three in the morning with new ideas and stuff. So in those short months that we were working together, we had so many ideas, and then I thought I lost that chance when he passed. I thought that went away and was taken away from me, but with everything that we’re doing and have done, Windam is a huge, if not the sole idea, founder. He is a piece of everything that we’re doing. That’s what I’m doing on the RAW stage, and for it to come into the 2K and for people to be able to see what Windham’s idea was, and it to come to life, is my full source of drive. It’s unbelievable. It means everything to me, and I know it means everything to him. He’s up there watching and loving this, and I’m so appreciative to the WWE for giving me this opportunity and platform to keep my brother’s legacy alive. It’s just unbelievable.”
On Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas returning to WWE and wanting to work together:
“We had books and books of different ideas going forward, like for months, and we decided we wanted to come back and work together for the first time. That was our idea, that we wanted to do that, that if we were coming back, we were going to come back as a team. So initially that was the idea. Then we started talking to the company. 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. We had already had a bunch of ideas to go forward, so I started working on other stuff. Then some stuff happened, and I got the call, don’t know when, that essentially all of our ideas that we had previously talked about a month or two prior or even longer, that’s what they wanted to do, and we were getting the chance to work together. I don’t know when it happened. I kind of got excited and then sad, and then overly excited when I got the news, like it’s actually happening, so I don’t know the timeline of it, but that’s kind of the bullet points, those ups and downs.”
On where the Uncle Howdy character and Wyatt Sicks are headed:
“I’m drawing off of real emotions and what has happened in my life. What I was going through, what I am going through, and keeping my brother’s legacy alive. There’s going to be a lot of ups and downs. I’m being very cathartic with this character. It’s releasing a lot for me, and I can almost not live without it anymore. So there’s directions I know I want it to go, and that we all want it to go, and where it probably will, but like any other life or character in the real world or in a movie, it’s going to take turns unexpectedly because it’s drawing off of real emotions and things that happen. If something happens and that has a reaction that’s more than I thought, that’s where that character is going to go because that’s what he feels. When I put on the Uncle Howdy mask, I had plenty of worries coming back and doing this. Can I do this? Will I be able to do this without my brother? As soon as that music hits and I hear the crowd, it’s unlike anything. I’ve been wrestling for 16 years. This is a completely different feeling. I am Uncle Howdy when I have that mask on. You won’t be able to talk to me. You won’t be able to call me Taylor or Bo. I’m Uncle Howdy and I believe it. It’s got a lot of direction, but it’s going to take some ups and downs, and I don’t think he can be put into a paragraph or a simple explanation.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit SHAK Wrestling (Shakiel Mahjouri) with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
