The date, June 17th, has, by now, been engraved in the minds of every Bray Wyatt and Uncle Howdy fan. WWE reached almost a culmination point with the continuous Howdy Return teasing game, leaving the fans restless to get everything revealed. To give them a glimmer of hope after the KOTR heartbreak, WWE chose a certain date and teased the fans with QR codes, cryptic sets of words, number riddles, and URL links.

While Uncle Howdy might be busy planning his onslaught, possibly scheduled in the middle of his month, let’s have a detailed insight into the very significance of June 17th.

The King and Queen of The Ring PLE first prompted us to look forward to June 17

Bray Wyatt’s heartbreaking demise stopped the expansion of his alter ego, Uncle Howdy, impersonated by his real-life brother Bo Dallas. While there’s no way to bring the legend back to the fray himself, Triple H and co have decided to let Uncle Howdy live longer in the ring and hence started to tease his massive return alongside the largely unexplored troop, Wyatt 6.

Starting from the WrestleMania season, WWE kept bringing a series of QR codes on the weekly shows, leading us in a single direction, Uncle Howdy. Later they incorporated different mediums, including Twitch, Twitter, and WhatsApp to keep the guessing game on.

One of those hints resulted in fans expecting the Wyatt 6 debut in KOTR, Saudi Arabia. But, during the PLE, they got another fresh QR code containing the name Rainerius. After a quick digging up, it turned out to be the name of a patron saint of Pisa and a traveler who was first brought into the WWE discussion by Bray Wyatt. It was found out later that the saint, known as the physical embodiment of the turbulence Wyatt had undergone, passed away on June 17th, the same date that is supposed to host Monday Night Raw, the day after the Clash at the Castle PLE.

That was just the beginning of the fans speculating a Raw return of Howdy on June 17. Eventually, it became an undeniable fact with a few more teases indicating the same.

Uncle Howdy teases that led the fans to the date June 17

During an episode of Raw, a series of poems was concealed under some hyperlink words. One of those poems carried every alphabet of June XVII in the right order in each line.

In the later weeks, another QR code ‘secret’ led us to the image of a place named Corpas Christi in Texas, the same place where Raw is scheduled to be held on June 17.

Last but not least, WWE gave it pretty flat on their official website. The URL on the post at WWE.com had June 17 written in reverse, in the form of “71enuj”.

Now it seems to be just a matter of time before the breathtaking wait of all these weeks finally reaps fruit. What’s your take on Uncle Howdy’s potential to make the much-awaited debut on the June 17th episode of Raw? Let us know in the comments.