MVP Confirms He Backed Up Grayson Waller During WrestleMania 40 Bar Confrontation

MVP has confirmed Grayson Waller’s account of getting backup from Shayna Baszler, Josh Barnett, and himself in a bar confrontation last year. Waller recounted the story last month about how over WrestleMania 40 weekend, he almost got into a real fight after the event when he asked a drunk guy to leave some of the women of NXT alone and that Baszler, MVP and Barnett backed him up. MVP discussed the incident on his Marking Out Podcast, and you can see highlights below (per Fightful):

On the incident: “As I recall, we were at the hotel bar. I think it was WrestleMania in Philly. We were at the hotel bar and I think Grayson Waller had won the tag titles that night or something like that. I mean, it’s Philadelphia, Philly fans are going to be Philly fans. These are the people that cheered when Michael Irvin got hurt. I think there were some drunk wrestling fans that were hanging out at the bar and I think they were being a little obnoxious to some female talent or something like that. If I recall correctly, I think Grayson Waller was just kind of telling the guys like, back off, chill out or whatever. I think they got kind of drunk and obnoxious, tried to bow up. I don’t necessarily — I wouldn’t call it a fight, but you know like, what’s going on over here? Like, ‘Hey, everything alright over here?’ Josh Barnett and I have a relationship that goes way back.”

On backing Waller up: “It was just a situation where we’re at the bar and we’re in our space. We’re all comfortable, we’re chilling and these dudes are being dickheads. I think Grayson said that once me, Josh, and Shayna walked up, he just went and sat down. To be in a situation like that, I can think of a lot of guys that I’d much rather have Shayna Baszler on my side than some of those guys. I remember that moment, we were just looking out for one of us. These guys were wrong, they were out of hand. They didn’t turn into anything, they f**ked off because they knew they were in deep water.”