Pat McAfee reflects on a his match at the Biggest Party Of The Summer.
At SummerSlam this past Saturday, Pat McAfee once again entered a WWE ring, this time facing Happy Corbin, a man he knows very well. McAfee would once again have an incredible performance, busting out a Code Red to get the win over Corbin.
Speaking on The Pat McAfee Show, McAfee reflected on his SummerSlam bout and addressed the moment where he almost slipped off the top rope.
“I did do the Swanton Bambini. I will say, I did not expect the ring posts to look the way they looked when I was climbing up there. There were some moments in that match where I was like, ‘should have prepared differently.’ For instance, walking into the stadium, I took a nice deep breath of the humid air. It was thick. Sauna thick. It was supposed to rain. Projections of the weather for two weeks, a week out, even the morning of, ‘rain is coming.’ Whenever it’s hot and rain is coming, that means it’s humid as fuck. I didn’t think about that as I was training in my basement and air conditioning. That hit me day of. ‘This is not an arena or enclosed. It’s going to be hot as fuck.’ I’m walking around, sweating, and haven’t done anything. I started to hydrate, hammer water and Gatorade,”
“A lot of offense off the ropes. Ropes are wet, a little slick, the shoes I was wearing, had not worn them on ropes. A lot of things, as they are happening, I’m thinking, ‘Fucking idiot. You are so dumb.’ I go for the base jump to catch Bum Ass Cobrin off top. I felt really good about that as I was flying through the air. Left foot on first, whoosh, I felt like I had nothing under me. Luckily, grab onto him like I’m a koala bear. Hang onto him, bruise up the shins on the ropes. As it is happening, they say you have so much adrenaline you don’t feel anything, that’s a lie. As my shins were bouncing on the ropes, ‘Oh, I’ve never been hurt so bad.’ Suplex happens, I thought it was over there,”
Pat McAfee on The Pat McAfee Show
McAfee of course managed to retain his balance and still land the move on the outside to Corbin. Time will tell when we will see Pat McAfee back in a WWE ring but if last nights match was any indication, he will continue to improve with each performance.
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