It was another busy week for Smackdown, so we’ll see what’s going on with Bray Wyatt,
Uncle Howdy, and what fans are calling a teaser for Cody Rhodes
Let’s start things off with everything Bray Wyatt related
Bray once again closed out Smackdown with a segment that mirrored his main event segment
from a few weeks ago
Bray Wyatt was shown backstage before he came out and obviously appeared to have a lot on
his mind
He was pacing back and forth and the screen quickly flashed back and forth with a television
set that had Uncle Howdy’s face on it, very similar to what we first saw with that mask
back at Extreme Rules
Bray points out that coming out and hearing the crowd still feels new to him, but how
we can get used to this sort of energy and adrenaline
Bray says right now it’s just him and us, there’s no mask or smoke and mirrors.
This is Bray Wyatt the real man, the best version of him that will ever be, and he’s
proud to be here and says he’ll do some spectacular things while he’s here
He continued by saying that for the majority of his life he’s been completely out of
control, and he can’t help that.
His emotions don’t work like other people’s, and sometimes those emotions send him to very
dark places.
And other times, no matter how hard he tries, he just doesn’t feel anything at all
But Bray says it's part of what makes him Bray Wyatt, and to get where he is right now,
he’s had to do horrible things.
He knows he’ll be faced with adversity and asked to do even more horrible things in the
future
Bray is once again cut off by Uncle Howdy
Uncle Howdy is no longer fully wearing the mask over his head, he just holds in front
of his face and then quickly removes it out of the way to show who he really is
Uncle Howdy asks Bray “who am I?”, and how claims to be the ghost of the man who
sold the world.
Howdy says that Bray killed the world and how he sent him away, obviously referring
to the idea that Bray Wyatt sent The Fiend away.
Howdy says that Bray sending The Fiend away is why Bray is just a shell of what he once
was
Howdy advises Bray to revel in what he is, and then calls Bray Wyatt a lair
Howdy mentions how Bray just claimed that he doesn’t wear a mask, but Howdy says that
they both know that isn’t true
Howdy says that he can see Bray and how he’ll never be able to hide from his Uncle Howdy
So the big reveal here from Howdy actually told us quite a lot of information
Firstly, it appears that the speculation and theories were right, Bray’s Uncle Howdy
was the individual behind the new mask
At first, everyone thought that the mask was a new twisted and alter ego of Bray Wyatt
that was talking to the normal version of himself
But Howdy took off that mask off to reveal that it was in fact him behind that mask the
entire time
What makes this slightly confusing is the fact that Bray Wyatt did physically wear that
mask during his Extreme Rules return
So if Howdy was behind it the entire time, why did Bray wear it at Extreme Rules if he
had nothing to do with that mask and ego?
Maybe they’ll touch on that in the coming weeks, but we did legitimately see Bray wearing
that mask, so that needs some explanation there
But Uncle Howdy brings up the question from the very first White Rabbit teaser, and that
was the question of “who killed the world?”
In the teaser, the answer was revealed to be “you did”, but thanks to Uncle Howdy’s
comments here, it clears up the puzzle even more
The “you did” answer wasn’t referring to us, the audience, it was actually referring
to Bray Wyatt, he’s the one that killed the world and that’s what Howdy mentions
there in his comments
So this spins the white rabbit teasers completely around.
It wasn’t Bray trying to communicate and warn us, it looks like those teasers have
been about Uncle Howdy trying to communicate and get into the head of Bray Wyatt
So we, the audience, never really were the target of these teasers, it’s been Uncle
Howdy talking directly to Bray Wyatt the entire time, so if you go back and looks at all of
the White Rabbit teasers, now knowing the back and forth war that’s going on between
Howdy and Bray, they may make a lot of more sense in current day then they did back then
Howdy criticizes Bray Wyatt for sending The Fiend away, he thinks that was the wrong move
and part of what has made Bray so weak and a shell of himself
Howdy’s line right there throws some exposition and context to us about what happened between
Bray Wyatt and The Fiend following Wrestlemania 37 and Bray’s release
It looks like The Fiend was still very much okay after the betrayal from Alexa Bliss and
loss at Wrestlemania 37, but it was Bray Wyatt who instructed The Fiend to go away
Howdy wasn’t a fan of that move and it’s part of why he’s here right now, trying
to get Bray to go back to his old ways, embrace his old ways
Howdy closes out by saying that Bray is lying about not wearing a mask
Uncle Howdy most likely meant this metaphorically, although Bray is not wearing an actual physical
mask, Howdy is implying that Bray is wearing a mask over his true identity of who he really
is
Howdy appears to be tired of this entire wholesome and victim act that Bray has been putting
on in recent weeks
He knows that the real Bray Wyatt isn’t close to being anything like that and that’s
why he’s now calling him a liar
Smackdown then went off the air with Uncle Howdy confirming his name and identity and
how Bray can’t hide from him
Now Uncle Howdy’s true identity behind that mask has also become a popular topic of discussion
Fans feel like it’s no doubt an altered version of Bray Wyatt’s voice dubbed in
over the visuals of the Uncle Howdy character
But the big debate was that Uncle Howdy, at least from the shots we were shown on Smackdown,
appears to be a bit smaller than Bray Wyatt
So even though Bray’s voice is the voice of Uncle Howdy, fans feel like someone else
may be playing the physical role of Uncle Howdy
One of the popular guesses was Bo Dallas
Howdy had on a long cross earring on his left ear, and fans have brought up some old pictures
of Bo having an identical earring during his last run with WWE
So Bo Dallas is one of the biggest guesses.
Plus he was already being rumored to be coming back to WWE any day now so that makes sense
But what doesn’t make the most sense is that Uncle Howdy is supposed to obviously
be Bray Wyatt’s Uncle, so would they really have Bray’s real life brother play his on-screen
Uncle?
That gets a little fuzzy and confusing there, but anything is possible in WWE, so you can’t
rule it out at all
Fans were also buzzing about what they understood as Bray Wyatt teasing a feud with Cody Rhodes
Bray mentions the “adrenaline” from the crowd, a word that’s a part of Cody Rhodes’
current theme song
Bray then mention how there’s no “smoke and mirrors”, which is just a normal figure
of speech, but it was also the name of Cody’s previous WWE theme song
So some fans are out there freaking out about these possible teasers for Bray Wyatt versus
Cody Rhodes, but at least for this current moment, it appears to be a bit of reach
Cody Rhodes obviously isn’t active right now and won’t be active for a few more months,
so even if it was on purpose from Bray Wyatt, it’s not anything that’s happening in
the immediate future, but maybe down the line for sure
But what are your thoughts on today’s update on Bray Wyatt’s storyline?
Are you enjoying this return story so far?
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