Messages Reveal Why Fan Attacked Seth Rollins (Video)
Messages Reveal Why Fan Attacked Seth Rollins (Video)
The WWE-watching community was left stunned this past week when a seemingly crazed fan attacked Seth Rollins during a Monday Night Raw filming at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Rollins had just wrapped a sequence where he defeated Finn Balor and was exiting the ring. As he was heading back up the ramp, the fan jumped a barricade and speared Rollins to the ground.
Security immediately came rushing over and dragged that fan out.
Video from the encounter speaks for itself:
Barely pay much attention to Raw these days but tonight I turn it on and the first thing I see is Seth Rollins being tackled by somebody who immediately disappears and it is never explained who he was or why he was tackling Seth Rollins pic.twitter.com/RKTPlBaI66
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 23, 2021
Bra im at wwe n brooklyn somebody attacked seth rollins 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/yNoUfaBoVo
— Jay (@kash_vL) November 23, 2021
After the fact, many were left with the same question: why?
Why would anyone do this? An answer emerged later in the week.
The guy who attacked Seth Rollins got scammed and catfish by a fake Seth Rollins account. Welp
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) November 23, 2021
the guy attacked seth because he was messaging a definite fake account and believed it and the “business deal” went the wrong way pic.twitter.com/m397OboTQ6
— Steven Zoto (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021
This kids been planning this since 2019 because he messaged a fake Seth Rollins account and he just seemed to eventually stop replying https://t.co/xfp317zRRU pic.twitter.com/1ZL25vHsCl
— Steven Zoto (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021
The fake Seth seemed to have scammed this dude out of hundreds of dollars and then got the guys “bae” arrested because of a fake check. This is sad all around https://t.co/LuAnAQgLyp pic.twitter.com/on4V5QaQvL
— Steven Zoto (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021
Just incredible stuff, all the way around.
Rollins, for his part, was a good sport about everything – but understandably seemed shook by what transpired.
“It’s terrifying, brother,” he said to TMZ Sports. “It happened very quickly. I was mostly just reacting and hoping that our security would come and do their job. Which they did very quickly. And then was just trying to detach and move on. Hope that everybody is OK.”
That’s one way to celebrate divorcing Johnny Manziel. https://t.co/jQ28nDRqn1
— Game 7 (@game7__) November 24, 2021
The fan in question was ultimately hit with two criminal charges: attempted assault, plus attempted violation of arts and cultural affairs.
This has been a scary year for the WWE in general, with one crazy story after another coming out. In that sense, this is just par for the course.
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A graduate from the University of Texas, Anthony Amador has been credentialed to cover the Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks and high school games all over the Lone Star State. Currently, his primary beats are the NBA, MLB, NFL and UFC.
