Bray Wyatt has been gone from WWE TV for some time, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone from the company.
Fightful Select (subscription required) published a report today to calm down fears that Wyatt had left WWE or been released after rumors had been circulating that internal rosters didn’t list him. According to Fightful, Wyatt is still with WWE and that “the particular roster that was referenced in the report omitted Wyatt due to injury — specifically the illness he’s been dealing with for months.”
Indeed, that illness has kept Wyatt on the shelf for more than two months. His most recent televised appearance came in the somewhat infamous Mountain Dew Pitch Black match at Royal Rumble against LA Knight, though he continued to work matches against Knight at house shows through Feb. 26.
The illness has also sidelined Wyatt’s on-screen tormenter/ally Uncle Howdy, played by his real life brother Bo Dallas. When it still appeared that Wyatt was going to have a WrestleMania match against Bobby Lashley, Howdy appeared on several more episodes of SmackDown to keep the momentum going. But when it became clear that plans would need to change as Wyatt would not be available, that program quietly was shelved, leaving Dallas off TV since early March.
Fightful noted that both men are still with the company and that Wyatt wants to return, though there has been no update on his health or an ETA on when he might be back. WWE notably left Wyatt (and Howdy) out of the recent WWE Draft, possibly signaling that it didn’t expect Bray back soon.
Wyatt’s fans are unfortunately used to waiting patiently for signs that he’s healthy and in the right headspace to perform, but this looks like yet another time they’ll have to hold tight. At least for now, they can rest easy that he hasn’t parted ways with WWE again.