After endless teasers expanding over several weeks, Uncle Howdy finally showed up in WWE at Monday Night Raw on 06/17. The reaction from fans showed that the return was worth the wait. Despite waiting so long, there were some notable loopholes and botches during the final segment that may have slipped past your senses during the first watch.
A clip of the final moments of the Wyatt 6 segment on Raw has been surfacing on social media. This clip recorded from a fan’s perspective shows a botch that you probably missed while watching the promo because the camera hid it so well.
Uncle Howdy nearly jeopardized the return segment
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The segment began with Sister Abigail walking on fours, coming up to the lamp placed on the ramp, standing up, and pointing to the backstage entrance. The camera follows her finger only to come across Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, Joe Gacy, and Bo Dallas in this specific format. Everybody follows Bo Dallas’ Uncle Howdy into the arena to Nikki Cross’ location and stands in an intimidating formation. Uncle Howdy picks up the lamp with one hand but first has to grab it with both of them before turning it off. Between this switch, when he was trying to use both his hands to hold the lamp, Dallas accidentally disturbed Lumis’ mask. In the uploaded clip on X, we can see Lumis trying to hold that mask in place in an attempt to stop it from falling off.
The original segment video hid the moment pretty well because of the camera placement and angle. However, this new perspective shows the hilarious botch. Although the stable probably had a good laugh about this backstage, it could have been embarrassing if Lumis hadn’t caught his mask and held it in place.
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This also wasn’t the only botch during the segment, one was pointed out by Bully Ray when he talked about it on a podcast episode.
Uncle Howdy’s voice discussed on the show
After the electrifying return of the Wyatt 6 in WWE, Bully Ray sat down in a Busted Open Podcast episode and talked about the segment. The former wrestler did not have any complaints about it as such. However, the ending didn’t really satisfy him. The buildup to the climax part of the promo was pretty creepy and eerie, but when Uncle Howdy said “We’re here” before turning off the lamp, it didn’t work for Bully Ray.
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The ex-WWE star claimed that it threw him off. Every member of the stable present at the moment was wearing scary attires and had disturbing body language but when Uncle Howdy left the two-word message, Ray could hear Bo Dallas who was behind the mask all along. While not everyone would mind this, for others, it can be considered a botch.
For the voice problem, WWE could figure out an alternative while for the mask botch, the stable may not have solutions for future references except being more careful.