• Former WWE Champion Was Constantly Bullied By Hornswoggle
Former WWE star Hornswoggle recently opened up about his past behavior in the locker room and admitted that he used to bully Big E.
Speaking on ‘What’s Your Story?’ with Stephanie McMahon, Hornswoggle revealed that he teased Big E to the point where the former WWE Champion had enough.
“I bullied Big E a lot; I always bullied Big E. I wasn’t bullied growing up, I’m very thankful for that; I wasn’t bullied in WWE – people didn’t wanna mess with Fit (Finlay), that’s just why. So I was like the closet bully at times.
Big E, riding, I poked and prodded, and he actually texted Woods and Kofi, ‘I don’t know if I can put up with Dylan (Hornswoggle) anymore. He just keeps bullying me. He won’t stop.’ So they were finally like, ‘Just put him in his place.’
We were walking into a building, I was bullying him that day, and he just walked in behind me, and he booted me, from the backpack. Boom! And I, as Kofi describes it, I Superman’d, and I landed right on my face, and my backpack hit, and E didn’t even say a thing.
And I literally got up, I look at Kofi and go, ‘Breaking point?’ He goes, ‘Yeah I think that was his breaking point.’ and I literally walked up and said, ‘Yeah, I deserved that.’ and he goes, ‘Oh yeah, you did.’”
• Undefeated Star Wanted To Lose To The Big Show
Floyd Mayweather’s clash with The Big Show at WrestleMania 24 remains one of WWE’s biggest celebrity matches. The undefeated 50-0 boxing legend earned $20 million for going one-on-one with The World’s Largest Athlete, a match he ultimately won.
According to WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H, Mayweather actually wanted to lose that match, at a time when he was at the peak of his career.
This was revealed by country star and four-time Grammy nominee Jelly Roll during an appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet.
Jelly Roll, who teamed up with Randy Orton to face Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre at SummerSlam 2025 in his debut match, shared that WWE originally planned for him and The Viper to win, but he personally requested to lose.
This led to Triple H comparing Jelly Roll’s mindset to that of Mayweather.
“It was originally, babyfaces up. So the day of, I’d been dropping it in on Shane (Helms) the whole time. Shane, I want to lose this match. And he was like, ‘Brother, you got to take that up with them.’
So I came down and me and Triple H talked about it right there at the ring that day. I said, ‘You know what I’m coming to talk about?’ He said, ‘I want to hear it.’ And I gave it to him. And he was like, All right, all right.
It was an easy pitch. It took three things. One, it’s the right thing to do, let’s just start at core values here. No celebrity has any business coming in and pinning a wrestler on their first run without some extreme circumstance.
Two, I can always come back, I don’t think any other celebrity ever really cared enough to think full angle through. Drew, too. If I really owe one of them, it’s Drew. So that was part two of it.
I was also smart enough to be like, Yo, I want to angle in. I don’t want to be remembered as a celebrity who did the thing, and then Triple H stopped me.
This will probably be on Unreal because it was so gangster. He said, ‘I will tell you this though.’ He said Floyd wanted to lose to The Big Show. I don’t know if I should be sharing that, but he told me that, and I thought that was cool.”
