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Joe Gacy confirms first post-WWE indie date

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Joe Gacy isn’t wasting any time getting back into the ring.

The former Wyatt Sicks member has already been announced for some upcoming indies shows and conventions following his release from WWE, but Gacy, now going by “Joseph Sawyer,” confirmed today that his first appearance will take place for Wrestling Revolver on Friday, July 24. This is the earliest possible show Gacy can work with it being exactly three months removed from his release.

No opponent for Gacy was included in the announcement. The Wrestling Revolver event is named “The Silence of the Lambs” and is being held in Nashville, Tennessee. It will be broadcast live for free on YouTube.

“My first appearance is finally announced,” Gacy wrote. “See me in Nashville.”

AEW star Jon Moxley is among those advertised for the show, along with Mance Warner, Killer Kelly, and Myron Reed.

All of the Wyatt Sicks members — Gacy, Bo Dallas, Nikki Cross, Erick Rowan, and Dexter Lumis — were released from WWE in the company’s post-WrestleMania 42 roster cuts. The group will be appearing together at WrestleCon in Minneapolis this August.

Gacy & Lumis are former WWE Tag Team Champions from their time competing together on SmackDown.

Joe Gacy’s first post-WWE matches revealed

Posted on by Shounak Chakrabarti

Former Joe Gacy’s first post-WWE match has now been revealed.

In April, just days after WWE WrestleMania 42, the promotion released several upcoming and established names from its roster, including The Wyatt Sicks (Bo Dallas, Joe Gacy, Dexter Lumis, Nikki Cross, and Erick Rowan), Aleister Black, Zelina Vega, and more.

Now, just days after their release, the former Joe Gacy, now known as Joseph Sawyer, has revealed his first post-WWE match.

Gacy is now scheduled to be at the Pro Wrestling Junkie show on September 20th in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. As of now, this is the only appearance that has been announced, while the rest of The Wyatt Sicks has yet to make their comeback plans public.

The former WWE faction Wyatt Sicks members have a new name

Just weeks after their WWE release, members of The Wyatt Sicks were announced to appear at the WrestleCon convention in Minneapolis as part of WWE SummerSlam Weekend later this year, using their new names.

  • Uncle Howdy/Bo Dallas – Taylor Rotunda
  • Nikki Cross – Nikki Storm
  • Erick Rowan – Erick Redbeard
  • Dexter Lumis – Samuel Shaw
  • Joe Gacy – Joseph Sawyer

The former Wyatt Sicks announced for WrestleCon

Posted on by Shounak Chakrabarti

Former WWE superstars The Wyatt Sicks have now been announced for an upcoming edition of WrestleCon with their new names.

WrestleCon recently announced that former WWE wrestlers Wyatt Sicks (Bo Dallas, aka Uncle Howdy, Nikki Cross, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, and Joe Gacy) are set to attend the convention in Minneapolis as part of WWE SummerSlam Weekend later this year. Wyatt Sicks, alongside Alba Fyre, Zoey Stark, and other wrestlers, was released just days after WWE WrestleMania 42.

The WrestleCon convention is scheduled to run from Friday, July 31, to Sunday, August 2, and The Wyatt Sicks are scheduled to appear on all three of these dates. Their WrestleCon promotional advert also revealed their new post-WWE names.

  • Uncle Howdy/Bo Dallas – Taylor Rotunda
  • Nikki Cross – Nikki Storm
  • Erick Rowan – Erick Redbeard
  • Dexter Lumis – Samuel Shaw
  • Joe Gacy – Joseph Sawyer

Why did WWE release the Wyatt Sicks?

In an earlier edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter from May 2026, Dave Meltzer opened up and explained the reasons behind WWE’s releases of Wyatt Sicks, Aleister Black, and others.

“It was just felt that the group had run its course. Even at first there were those who saw it as a short-term idea. It was basically a tribute to Bray Wyatt and was over big at first but it was limiting how they could be used with that gimmick over the long haul.”