Lil Yachty Reflects On WWE Debut Match, ‘I Feel Like Shit’

Lil Yachty made his in-ring debut at WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event, lasting five minutes with Baron Corbin.

Yachty technically won by lasting the five minutes, but ended up going through a table for his troubles.

“I feel like shit. I feel like someone hit me with a bag of bricks,” Yachty told Chris Van Vliet on Insight. 

Asked what hurts the most, Yachty said, “My kneecaps. But when I woke up this morning, my shoulder felt dislocated. My kneecaps, my shins. I couldn’t even tighten my hand. As the day goes on, everything’s loosening up. When I first sat up in bed, it was the most pain I ever felt in my life. Shins, knees, whatever this is behind the kneecap, my back, my lower back. I feel like I’m wrestling for 20 years. Man, it’s bad.”

Asked what spot hurt the most, he replied, “The clothesline. I came in, I hit him with the kendo, and I charged up to give him another one, and he gave me that clothesline. It’s so funny because my entire life, I wondered what a clothesline felt like, because JBL used to make them look so disgusting. The clothesline from hell looked so excruciating. So I always wondered what they felt like, and I always wanted to take one. I don’t think that was anywhere near JBL’s, but it hurt so much. When he first did it, I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to finish. I could not breathe at all, that was not selling. I think that was a receipt for me hitting him with that microphone, but I don’t know. It hurt so bad, bro. Then when he threw me at the barricade, that shit really hurt too.”

Early in the match, Corbin was busted open. The blood came from the initial shot with the microphone.

“No, I didn’t know where the blood came from. I thought it was a kendo stick shot. I thought I hit him with the kendo. It’s so crazy, bro, because in the moment of it I do not remember. I remember it, but I don’t remember when [it happened]. I remember that clothesline. It was painful, and I remember being thrown to that barricade. But I didn’t see that blood. Honestly, it’s funny, I think about it. It was extremely overstimulating, the whole thing. From people screaming at you, to just trying not to get your ass kicked, it was just always stimulating,” he said.

Asked if the five minutes felt long or short, he replied, “Neither. It’s so weird. I don’t want to say flow state, but it felt like this weird space where nothing in the world existed. Time didn’t even exist until like the last 10 seconds to me. I didn’t look at the clock until like 13 seconds. Not once did I look at the clock because again, it’s overstimulating. I can’t even think about the time because I’m just trying to exist, and then my friends were fucking with me. They kept screaming at me. It was a lot. Tyler was screaming at me fucking front row. He kept shouting sh*t at me. I’ve done thousands of shows, and I’ve done hundreds of shows in that arena. It’s never felt like that ever.”

Yachty remains on WWE TV as he was attacked by Corbin on Friday’s SmackDown.