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WWE Star Saved In Real Bar Fight By Shayna Baszler, AEW Name & Ex-UFC Champion

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Sep 10, 2025 11:50 EDT

Shayna Baszler, an AEW star and a former UFC Champion walk into a bar…and a former WWE champion was thrilled to see them.

At WrestleMania 40, WWE split the tag team championships once again in a huge ladder match, with two teams picking up different versions of the gold. In that match, A-Town Down Under walked away with the WWE Tag Team Championship, giving Grayson Waller the first WWE gold of his career.

But what should have been a career highlight almost ended in disaster at the hotel bar after the show.

Speaking on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, Grayson Waller detailed how an altercation with a fan almost got physical as he tried to stop some of WWE’s female stars from receiving unwanted attention from a fan:

WrestleMania 40, after I won the Tag Team Championships, we go back to the hotel bar, and sometimes when WrestleMania stuff happens, the fans know what hotel we’re at.
So we’re trying to have a good time and chill, and all these fat flops in black shirts who stink are just like roaming around trying to grab you and all this. It’s the worst, it’s very frustrating.
So there was a guy who kept trying to grab and touch and talk to some of the NXT girls, and they were telling me, ‘This guy’s bothering us,’ so I went up to the bar to talk to him and I was like, ‘Hey, can you leave the girls alone, they’re trying to have a good night.’
And this guy was very drunk, he starts firing back at me, he goes to push me, and I’m like, ‘I just won the Tag Team Championships and I’m gonna get in a fight at the bar at WrestleMania, this is gonna be the story…’

Grayson Waller Found A WWE Dream Team At The Bar

Thankfully for Waller, he soon had backup that put any thoughts of a fight to bed in short order:

All of a sudden, first person that walks up next to me, Shayna Baszler. She’s like, ‘Is everything all good here?’ Then as she’s talking to me, MVP walks up next. Now I’m feeling pretty good, you know?
Then, Josh Barnett, who I must admit, I’ve never met Josh Barnett, like I know of him, I know he’s a badass. He steps up next and goes, ‘Is everything alright here guys?’
I sat down. I sat down at the bar and I just looked at the guy like, ‘Hey, I’m good, Shayna Baszler, MVP and Josh Barnett have my back – there isn’t a man alive who I think can mess with this team of four.’
So I almost had like my own super team at the bar at WrestleMania, and that guy, he disappeared real quickly, which was nice. So I think I actually had a real-life team of four WarGames bar team.