MVP Backs Up Grayson Waller’s Bar Confrontation Story, ‘We Were Just Looking Out For One Of Us’

MVP had Grayson Waller’s back in Philadelphia.

Earlier this month, Grayson Waller made some headlines after revealing that MVP, Shayna Baszler, and Josh Barnett had his back in a bar confrontation during WrestleMania XL weekend in 2024.

On the latest episode on his Marking Out podcast with Dwayne Swayze, MVP backed up Waller’s story and joked about the state of Philadelphia fans.

“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.”

After touching on his history with Barnett, MVP noted that he was just trying to look out for “one of us”.

“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 fucked off because they knew they were in deep water.”

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