Joe Gacy Reveals Scrapped Wyatt Sicks Plan To Abduct Tony Hinchcliffe

Joe Gacy says the Wyatt Sicks once had a wild angle in the works involving comedian Tony Hinchcliffe — one that never made it to television.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Gacy (real name Joseph Sawyer) recalled that during WrestleMania 42 weekend in Las Vegas, when Hinchcliffe partnered with Netflix and WWE for a comedy special, there was an idea floated for the Wyatt Sicks to “kidnap” the comedian around his show. The plan, as Gacy described it, would have folded Hinchcliffe’s Vegas special into the group’s eerie, unpredictable presentation — the kind of chaotic, out-of-nowhere segment the faction has built its identity on since debuting under the Wyatt Sicks banner.

Ultimately, the concept didn’t come together, and it’s unclear from Gacy’s comments exactly why it was scrapped or how far along the planning got before it was shelved. What is clear is that WWE creative was at least kicking around ways to weave outside pop-culture crossovers into the Wyatt Sicks’ mystique during one of the promotion’s biggest weekends of the year, with Las Vegas hosting a heavy slate of Netflix-era WrestleMania programming.

The Wyatt Sicks — Gacy, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis and Nikki Cross — have operated as one of WWE’s more unconventional acts since their surprise arrival, built around unsettling visuals, mask work and a lineage tied directly to the late Bray Wyatt. Since his passing, WWE has leaned on the group to keep that creative DNA alive without directly recreating Wyatt’s own character, and that’s meant plenty of experimentation with how far the act can stretch outside a normal match framework. A stunt like abducting a mainstream comedian mid-special would have fit squarely into that mold — equal parts unsettling and attention-grabbing, the sort of crossover moment designed to bleed outside wrestling media into pop culture at large.

It also underscores something worth remembering about WrestleMania weekend specifically: it’s not just about the matches inside the arena. WWE treats that week as a marketing and content sprawl, with satellite specials, comedy shows and celebrity tie-ins scattered around the host city, and this is a reminder that the company is often looking for ways to link its in-ring characters to those outside events, even when the ideas ultimately don’t pan out.

Gacy didn’t offer specifics on how close the segment came to actually happening, or whether it might resurface in some form down the line. For now it’s simply a glimpse behind the curtain at one of the stranger pitches that didn’t make it out of the writers’ room — a fitting footnote for a group whose entire gimmick is built on leaving people unsure of what’s coming next.