Sheamus was recently a guest on the After the Bell podcast. During this, he spoke about the rumors that he got beat up by Yoshi Tatsu in a backstage fight.
This is a rumor that has been floating around for many years. Sheamus has finally given his side of what happened.
Here is what he said (h/t to Cageside Seats for the quote below):
“There’s a story going around, this legendary story about me and Yoshi Tatsu. This doesn’t come up until I won the title [in 2009]. This is how I knew people were really trying to stick daggers in me. Me and Ted DiBiase Jr. were sharing an apartment. Yoshi had just come over from New Japan, and basically the guy he was supposed to stay with left him high and dry. So we took Yoshi into our apartment. We actually took him in. Ted slept on the couch, and he took Ted’s room. We didn’t really know this fella, but everyone seemed to like him…But he wasn’t paying for any bills. He wasn’t paying for any bills, any water, any cable, any gas, any of that stuff…”
“We had a couple little conflicts, whatever. And then, it kinda boiled over one time. We had a bit of a shoving thing. He’d try to slap at me, and I’d try to slap at him…it lasted about 60 seconds. It was just a couple of chokes and stuff, and slaps, and that was it. We got over it, we all worked it out. All of a sudden then, after the TLC [2009] match, when I became WWE champion, all these stories are going around that Yoshi Tatsu knocked me out. I was just like, what? Where did this come from? It was this thing that never happened and then was blown out of proportion.”
“When I wasn’t there, Drew caught [Yoshi] once or twice going along with the story…I confronted him about it, and he was like, “No, no I never said that.” But it was just this thing that got blown out. That’s when I knew there’s certain people out to get me.”
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