Uncle Howdy needs to step up; The Wyatt Sicks can get to a whole new level with returning star, believes 16-time champion
Uncle Howdy and The Wyatt Sicks have been presented really well in their first two weeks on WWE television. A former WWE star, who won 16 titles with the company, believes Uncle Howdy is the key to the group's success and suggests a way to make it happen.
The Wyatt Sicks shocked everyone on the June 17 episode of RAW when they introduced themselves and dismantled the backstage area. They then humanized Uncle Howdy by interviewing Bo Dallas and even bringing up the impact of Bray Wyatt's death on Dallas.
On the latest episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy shared his opinion on what the group should do next. He wants every other member to get interviewed by Uncle Howdy, who was away from television for about a year, to know each of their motivations.
"I would prefer to see the other characters explain their motivations in different ways and I would save this and make it exclusive and unique to Uncle Howdy because I think it's something you could go back to and I think you want to highlight him above the rest as the leader to make him more important. […] Have him speak to all the characters to understand their motivations, but I would try and centralize that to him where that is like his thing now," Hardy said. [4:00 - 4:30]
Matt Hardy loved how WWE presented Uncle Howdy as the leader of The Wyatt Sicks
In the same episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, the former 11-time tag team champion praised WWE's presentation of Bo Dallas as Uncle Howdy.
Matt Hardy was moved by Bo's performance during his interview and imagined it would have been difficult to do.
"Just watching Taylor, watching Bo Dallas answer, he was so believable. He was so good, it felt so real probably because it is real. I would imagine it was one of those things that was difficult. It was a difficult thing to film but it was so real but it added so much equity into him doing this for his brother because he said he always looked up to his brother," Hardy said. [0:50 - 1:15 in the video above]
The Wyatt Sicks currently have five members with WWE acknowledging Bo Dallas as the man behind Uncle Howdy. The remaining four are Nikki Cross as Abby the Witch, Erick Rowan as Ramblin' Rabbit, Dexter Lumis as Mercy the Buzzard, and Joe Gacy as Huskus the Pig.