Update on Pat McAfee’s WWE storyline being dropped | exclusive
It was Pat McAfee’s choice for his WWE storyline to finish.
McAfee had been deliberate to group with Randy Orton towards Jelly Roll and Cody Rhodes at Backlash subsequent month. However, when Rhodes defeated Orton at WrestleMania, the stipulation was that McAfee must formally depart wrestling.
on Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer mentioned what led to McAfee’s storyline being dropped.
“With the Pat McAfee thing, I opted out, so that’s what actually led to everything changing,” Meltzer mentioned on the present.
“That’s why the tag match from Backlash was taken off. Orton and McAfee against Jelly Roll and Cody Rhodes, which Cody Rhodes may not be okay for Backlash anyway, you know with that eye.”
On Wednesday, Jelly Roll despatched a message to McAfee saying it was time for each of them to return to what they’re good at.
Meltzer mentioned each Jelly Roll and McAfee have been conscious of the backlash from followers relating to movie star involvement at WrestleMania.
“They were very cognizant of what has been said about celebrities in wrestling and both of them love wrestling and I think that they realized that there was a lot of negative sentiment about it. And they listened and they understood and I think they saw the fan side of it. And I think that that’s what led to this.”
Meltzer continued, noting that whereas he doesn’t know the precise purpose McAfee pulled out, the idea in WWE was that it was because of the fan response.
“I was told that the belief was that it was due to the reaction that he pulled out. It wasn’t like anything else.”
Meltzer famous that extra details about what occurred backstage at WrestleMania shall be out there in tomorrow’s version of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
The post-AEW Dynamite episode of Wrestling Observer Radio this week is available for subscribers here.
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