Bray Wyatt delivered the following promo during the closing segment of WWE SmackDown on October 14, 2022. Code Orange provided the music for his new entrance, which he used when he entered the ring for the promo.
“I don’t know if y’all can read this on me, but I’m incredibly grateful and I’m really, really nervous to be here. But I never thought of this would happen. This right here, this is just me, okay? This is a version of me that I’ve never got to introduce to you guys before. This is just me being me, genuine me for the first time. I just want to share with you, this past year in my life, I lost a lot of things. I love you, too. I lost my career, I lost my self confidence. I lost two people who were very, very close to me, and I lost my way. And I got to a point where I thought that everything that I’ve ever done here, otherwise I thought it was all meaningless. Nothing I ever did has mattered to anyone. And I was wrong.
Once I was done feeling sorry for myself and I decided to go out in the world again and see people everywhere, they would say, thank you, Bray. Ma’am, when you coming back home? And then every once in a while, there would be someone I would meet that’s truly remarkable and you know who you are. But these people, they would come to me. They would come to me and they would say, brave, I just wanted to thank you, man, because I was in a time of need, and I lost people that were close to me, and I lost my self confidence, and I felt weak, and I felt vulnerable. And in this weakest day, I found your words, Bray. I found your words. And I just wanted to thank you, man. You saved my life. Bray the truth is, I don’t think about stuff like that. And the thing about that is that I can sit here writing out today and I can look all of you in the eyes, and I can say that you were there when I was weak, when I was vulnerable, when I was down. So I just wanted to say thank you. You all saved my life.”
The conclusion of his promo was cut short by a video on the titantron showing a mask and saying, “You don’t know who you’re dealing with, little one. But you will…”
There was no warning before the show was pulled from the air.
It has been reported that Wyatt will play a significant role in the future of SmackDown and will be a regular blue brand figure. The company reportedly has high hopes that his appearance on Friday nights will lead to an increase in ratings for the show. It was also reported that the Wyatt mask is being referred to internally as “Uncle Howdy,” although that name has not been confirmed by WWE. This week, it came to light that WWE just submitted an application to trademark the terms “Uncle Howdy” and “Uncle Harper” for general use.
WWE already has long-term plans leading up to WrestleMania for Wyatt’s group. There are no more details known, although it has been widely assumed that Joe Gacy is Huskus, Grayson Waller is Mercy the Buzzard, and Alexa Bliss is Sister Abigail. While obviously this won’t happen, there was talk of Aleister [Malakai] Black for this group. Stay tuned to PWMania.com for more.
You can watch footage of the segment below:
