Bo Dallas’ Sister’s Statement Following His WWE Departure Will Melt Your Hearts
Bo Dallas, aka Uncle Howdy, was released from WWE on Friday.
So were his ‘The Wyatt Sicks’ stablemates Joe Gacy, Nikki Cross, Dexter Lumis, and Erik Rowan.
The company’s releases on April 24 were one of its biggest in terms of numbers in recent history, with 23 names featured on the list.
Dallas had been a part of the Stamford promotion since 2008, where he competed in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) for four years before it was rebranded as NXT, where he spent two more years. There, he became a one-time NXT Champion.
The third-generation wrestler made his WWE main roster debut in April 2014 with a motivational speaker-like gimmick, urging fans to Bo-lieve in him.
In January 2016, he was repackaged as part of The Social Outcasts alongside Curtis Axel, Heath Slater, and Adam Rose.
After aligning with The Miz under The Miztourage stable, Dallas and Axel betrayed him to form the tag team duo, The B-Team. At the 2018 Extreme Rules pay-per-view, they defeated Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy to become the Raw Tag Team Champions for the first time. They lost the titles to Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler after 50 days.
After almost one year of TV absence between 2020 and 2021, following Axel’s WWE release, he was released from the company in April, ending his 13-year tenure.
He returned in 2022 as the mysterious figure Uncle Howdy, first haunting his brother, Wyatt, before aligning with him. Howdy’s future became uncertain after Wyatt unexpectedly died after suffering a heart attack in August 2023.
WWE revived the character, getting Dallas to appear as Howdy on the June 17, 2024, episode of Raw. The faction was later moved to SmackDown, where Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy held the Tag Team Championship for 196 days.
Bo Dallas’ Sister Pays Tribute Following His WWE Release
The Friday release saw the entire Wyatt Sicks get canned by the Stamford promotion.
Taking to Instagram, Bo Dallas’ sister, Mika Rotunda, shared a framed photograph of Dallas with his brother, Windham Rotunda, aka Bray Wyatt.
The Instagram photo also contains a handheld movie camera and a stuffed mammoth/elephant toy with white tusks and matted fur.
In her caption, Mika wrote words by Windham Rotunda that expressed what wrestling meant to him. She also revealed how proud she was of Bo Dallas for his WWE run, which ended on Friday.
“Wrestling is not a love story, it’s a Fairy Tale for masochists. A comedy for people who criticize punchlines. A fantasy most can’t understand, a spectacle no one can deny. Lines are blurred. Heroes are villains. Budgets are cut. Business is business.
But it can also be a land where Dead men walk. Where Honor makes you Elite. Where Demons run for office. And Rock bottom is a reason to rejoice. WOOOOO! It’s an escape. A reason to point the blame at anyone but yourself for 2-3 hours. An excuse to be a kid again, and nothing matters except the moment we are in.
Wrestling is not a love story, it’s much more. It’s hope.
And in a world surrounded in hate, greed and violence, a world where closure may never come. We all know a place that has hot and cold hope on tap. For better or for worse.”
— WindhamYou will never meet a sister more proud than me. Ever ever ever ever ever. Ever.
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