In a segment that blended raw emotion with the eerie mystique of WWE storytelling, Erick Rowan made a heartfelt return to “WWE Raw,” featured prominently in a poignant vignette as part of the Wyatt Sicks. After two weeks of vignettes spotlighting Bo Dallas and his alter ego, Uncle Howdy, Monday night’s episode turned the spotlight on Rowan, marking his official return.
Seated alone on camera but interacting with an off-screen voice that unmistakably bore the altered tones of Uncle Howdy, Rowan was asked a simple yet loaded question: “How have you been?” The floodgates opened.
“I’m not gonna lie,” Rowan confessed. “The last few years have been very, very hard. You know I used to have a family.” His voice trembled as he referred to the original Wyatt Family and the devastating loss of Brodie Lee (formerly known as Luke Harper) in 2020. “We were unstoppable, inseparable, always had each other’s backs, and then one day, the whole world changed. I lost a brother — the person in the world who believed in me more than anyone else — just gone.” Rowan’s pain was palpable, but so was his resilience. “I had no choice but to get up and keep moving because life goes on. But just when I thought I had everything going,” he continued, his voice cracking, “my other brother, he’s gone too,” acknowledging the loss of Bray Wyatt in 2023.
The segment masterfully interwove these real-life tragedies with the current storyline. Rowan was handed his old sheep mask and asked how it made him feel. His response was profound. “It gives me hope,” he said, explaining that when he was at his lowest, “you reached out your hand [and] I accepted it,” speaking as if to Howdy directly. He found a renewed sense of purpose: to help those like himself, to transform their collective pain into something meaningful.
The vignette concluded with Rowan delivering a powerful message. “We’re gonna take our broken hearts and make some beautiful art,” he vowed, as glitches of his Ramblin’ Rabbit persona flickered on screen, adding a haunting touch to an already emotionally charged segment.