Travis Scott’s involvement in one of the biggest moments in WWE history did not go down well with this former star.
At the end of Elimination Chamber, the Hip Hop star accompanied The Rock to the ring to confront WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. During the historic segment, that saw John Cena shockingly turn heel for the first time in his career, the rapper was in the corner bizarrely lighting sage before planting Cody Rhodes with a punch that legitimately injured the Superstar.
Wrestling fans and pundit’s reactions to the rapper’s involvement have been polarizing, to say the least, but one former WWE Superstar, Stevie Richards has taken his criticism to the next level and called him an “asshole”.
Speaking about the mega angle on his podcast The Stevie Richards Show, the former ECW star, blasted Scott for his weird sageing escapades and for perforating Rhodes’ eardrum with an unnecessary punch.
“You did some very arrogant selfish and dare I say you took advantage of Cody and what should have happened and what I wish would have happened: ‘We’re off the air guys’ and Cody got up and started beating the s**t out of Travis Scott,” Richards said during an episode of his “The Stevie Richards Show.” “He’s an a**hole. I mean, what a jerk move to do. Travis Scott, you’re an a**hole.”
Richards thinks that the actions were those of a self-centered personality, who was not aware of the role he was meant to play in the night’s events.
“Nobody cares about you Travis Scott,” Richards chastised. The former ECW star felt that WWE has gotten too comfortable with celebrities like Bad Bunny, Logan Paul, and Pat McAfee, who took to the business unusually quickly. “I think they let their guard down and Travis Scott came out with The Rock…and this little guy is just running around like it’s like a ‘Mutt and Jeff’ scenario like running around waving his arms just he’s in his own world.”
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Why Was Travis Scott In WWE’s Historic Segment?
At the Elimination Chamber post show press-conference, The Rock opened up on Travis Scott’s involvement at the PLE stating:
“Yes, absolutely. That’s why we’re doing it. Long gaming. I love Travis. That’s my guy. Where we have expanded to in WWE, I feel like professional wrestling has always found its unique place in culture throughout the decades. We remember Rock N Wrestling, Cyndi Lauper, Hulk Hogan, we remember the Attitude Era. Pro wrestling has had its place in culture for some time. I think we are tapping in to a unique time now, I’m not quite sure what we name this era, we’ll all figure it out. Someone will come up with something cool, I’ll say it and take credit for it. I feel like with Travis, he loves the business and loves pro wrestling.
He’s a culture guy. Travis Scott is one of the greatest already, of all time. He’s a GOAT, a legend, an icon, he loves the business. We get guys and girls like that who want to come in and who are already tapping into the culture and disrupting culture in their own cool way. They want to come in, have fun at the show. Maybe they want to sit and enjoy or be on camera. But some want to get involved. Some, like Travis, deeply want to get involved. That’s what you saw tonight.
We have this opportunity to create this big moment in pro wrestling that is arguably one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, and we had an opportunity to bring Travis Scott in too and start to form a union and an alliance with The Final Boss and Travis Scott. He wanted to get, to steal a term, he wanted to get his hands bloody. I whispered to him as we were going out, ‘if you get your hands bloody, make it count. Make it count.’ He slapped the shit out of Cody.
He was really hyped up. Travis landed, we went in, had some words, chopped up what the night was going to look like, and I caught a contact high for about three hours, and I loved it. I need Travis every time I do an appearance. Travis smoke with Teremana, it’s game over.”
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