WWE recently made the decision to pull Pat McAfee from television for the forseeable future, and the news became a hot topic in the days surrounding Christmas. It was reported that it was a company decision and not McAfee’s, but it had to do with them not wanting to rely on him exclusively as the brand’s top heel.
McAfee had continued to play the role on his radio show, revealing on its video stream he was wearing a neck brace to sell the injuries sustained during the War Games match, giving the indication more would be seen in the fallout. McAfee eventually tweeted out responding to the reports, saying he thinks he got fired on Christmas.
There’s no heat on McAfee, it was simply a matter of things playing out, but McAfee wound up addressing the situation on his radio show on Monday. A fan tweeted at him during his “I don’t want to overreact” segment on his radio show, suggesting the company did the right thing letting him go. McAfee responded to the fan on his show and definitely gave him a piece of his mind.
“Hey Benny Butz, get off my ass, dude. I tried to get some sun, son, but Indiana doesn’t have any for like five or six months, what do you want from me? I’m super caucasian, I become red easily. I have a tanning bed in my house, but I got third-degree burns from the first time I laid on it. My entire body looked like a goddamn zebra for six months. I can’t use it, so I use the spray tan. My first match, NXT TakeOver 30 against Adam Cole, I made some rookie mistakes and I should have been undefeated after that match. Maybe I got too dark of a spray tan. I didn’t go to my spray tan machine, I went to another one down in Florida and maybe that one was cooked a little too much. Maybe, when I was sweating, it was falling onto the canvas. Maybe everything that guy is saying is close to accurate, but that doesn’t mean I should have to read on the internet, all day Christmas, that NXT has just written me off of television for the rest of my life. Fuck you, Benny Butz!”
While it’s almost a certainty McAfee will return to television, it’s unknown when they’ll bring back the former NFL punter.
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