Travis Scott Gets Unlikely Advocate After WWE Attack
The Rock, John Cena, and Travis Scott stood over Cody Rhodes’ bloodied body in a WWE ring and one AEW star has advocated for Scott’s bizarre involvement.
Cody Rhodes emphatically rejected The Rock’s wish to have the WWE Champion’s soul at Elimination Chamber. That immediately led to John Cena turning heel for the first time in over twenty years as he attacked Rhodes, leaving him bloodied and battered in the ring.
Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the whole segment was rap star Travis Scott who desperately needed sage to cleanse himself in the corner while the beatdown played out. Cody Rhodes was left injured thanks to the most brutal blow in the attack but he’s still set to address the situation on SmackDown.
While Travis Scott might not be to every WWE fan’s taste, one man who led where John Cena followed in kicking Cody Rhodes below the belt thinks there’s a simple explanation.
MJF Advocates For Travis Scott In WWE
Speaking to SI Media With Jimmy Traina, AEW star MJF gave his thoughts on the whole fiasco as he noted he gets annoyed when people in wrestling companies pretend they don’t watch the competition:
I get really annoyed when people in either company pretend that they don’t — let me put it this way: Yes, I was watching it (WWE Elimination Chamber). I was watching it live, it was an awesome moment (John Cena’s heel turn) and everybody should think it was an awesome moment because it was, point blank, end of discussion.
Many fans were bemused that such a historic moment in wrestling history featured Travis Scott burning sage in the ring. But MJF was happy to play devil’s advocate for Scott’s involvement:
Should Travis Scott be burning sage in the corner? Is that what you were gonna bring up?… So I’m going to play devil’s advocate because I am the devil, right? Somebody might have said that about Dennis Rodman when he was standing there with the NWO back in the day. But because Dennis Rodman was there, ESPN picked it up, serious news affiliates picked it up that ordinarily wouldn’t give professional wrestling the time of day because they’re f*cking morons.
They think they’re above pro wrestling. Everything is pro wrestling. So Travis Scott being there, even though people like me or you or wrestling fans who have been watching and are just like, ‘What the f*ck is this guy doing here? I don’t have an emotional attachment to him.’ We might feel that way.
But a Travis Scott fan, who works at ESPN or FOX or MSNBC or CNN does not feel that way and they might go, oh sh*t. Travis Scott was involved in this. We should talk about this, right? So, that’s me playing devil’s advocate… But I’m just simply playing devil’s advocate. I’m not even saying these are my feelings. I am just playing devil’s advocate.