The Oct. 6 WWE Raw opened with a segment building to Crown Jewel’s Australian Street Fight between one of Paul Heyman’s current clients, Bronson Reed, and a star Heyman used to counsel, Roman Reigns.
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theme of the segment was the claim that Reed was the first wrestler to ever send Reigns — or his father Sika and uncle Afa of WWE Hall of Fame tag team The Wild Samoans — out of an arena on a stretcher, as Big Bronson and his Vision partner Bron Breakker ensured Roman was at August’s Clash in Paris premium live event.
That wasn’t true, as many of us who’ve been watching WWE for years quickly remembered. Adam Scherr definitely knows it wasn’t true, because he was working as Braun Strowman when his character sent Reigns out of Raw on a stretcher during their 2017 feud. Strowman also flipped the ambulance that was trying to take the Big Dog to the what at that time WWE still called the local medical facility.
So Scherr tweeted a pic of himself from that angle after Heyman and Reed’s promo, with yawning emojis and the caption, “yea ok Oswald Cobblepot!!”
Heyman took that to be a shot at him, and fired back with a “letter” that included a riff on another former client’s “Kevin Nash. WTF. Thought he was dead. Lol”. That’s because he, and pretty much everyone else in the world who cared to waste a second thinking about it, took the caption as the former WWE Universal champion mocking Paul’s resemblance to Batman’s flightless water bird-themed nemesis, The Penguin. But Scherr told TMZ’s Inside The Ring he wasn’t even talking about Heyman…
“I gotta stop you right there. I keep getting this thing about me tweeting with Paul Heyman. I never even talked about Paul or acknowledged Paul. I don’t know why he got so upset and came at me. Especially because he gets to see my face every commercial break on SmackDown. Let’s be for real — if anybody knows about me having a show about ordering everything on the menu, you’d think Paul would know.”
Before anyone could really, “uh, actually” the Monster Among Men on the point however, it became pretty clear he was just continuing to prod Heyman while plugging his USA Network food show:
“I have no idea why he wrote what he did about me. Maybe I struck a nerve or something, I don’t know. I didn’t intentionally go after him or anything. Maybe he’s just sensitive — or maybe he misses me. That’s probably what it is. I think the ratings are struggling a little bit, and they realize when The Monster’s on TV, he draws ratings — so who knows?”
We think we do, but we can’t knock Scherr’s hustle.
