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Samoa Joe has broken his silence and revealed his side of the story of a nine-year-old WWE incident involving an AEW star. He also revealed how Triple H reacted to it.
Joe was the NXT Champion when he took on Shinsuke Nakamura at NXT Takeover Brooklyn II in 2016. There, he lost the title in what was a great match against the former New Japan Pro-Wrestling star. However, when making his entrance, he pushed current AEW star MJF, who was acting as a bodyguard, to the side.
Samoa Joe was speaking with Chris Van Vliet when he gave his side of what had happened. He said:
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“I remember just the whole segment coming together. What had really happened is we had done a couple runs of the common entering the arena shot, and I kept going 'I’m bored of the shot' because, it’s just so... walking to the deal. Then as a joke, I said, and I didn’t tell MJF at the time because I was kind of just doing as a gag. I go, ‘Hey man, when I’m coming out now just really be clearing out the hallways for me.’ ‘Yeah, sure, bro, no problem.’ I come out and I shoved him and we cut, whatever, there. I remember I looked up and everybody was dying behind the camera. And I looked at him, and he was like giggling too. I think it ended up going to the truck, Hunter was in the truck, kind of doing pre-production for the show and he just goes, 'Oh God, we’re keeping that.'” [H/T Fightful]
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Samoa Joe on if he thought MJF would make it big
In the same segment, Samoa Joe was asked if he thought MJF would go on to become as big a star as he is now. To which he said:
“No, none. Well, I knew all the guys there at the time were, I think they were Brian Myers’ guys, essentially from his school, Create A Pro. I knew he had good dudes so I remember asking, 'are you Brian’s guys,' 'yeah,' 'okay, cool.' So I remember when I was doing the bit, the guy would get it, and he did. It was a hilarious thing. I’m glad we got to revisit it.” [H/T Fightful]
It is telling that Samoa Joe had this to say about MJF. It will be interesting to see how the former AEW Champion responds.
