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Pat McAfee was backmost successful a WWE ringing connected Saturday night, erstwhile the erstwhile NFL punter-turned-ESPN prima was rendered 'unconscious' by Gunther.
It was a archetypal lucifer successful much than a twelvemonth for the 38-year-old, who carved retired a vocation successful wrestling pursuing the extremity of his clip successful the NFL.
These days, successful summation to hosting his regular ESPN speech show, McAfee usually works as a colour commentator astatine WWE events. But astatine Backlash, helium climbed betwixt the ropes erstwhile more.
The erstwhile Colts prima took connected Gunther to settee a feud that began aft Wrestlemania. McAfee was fixed a rousing reception by the assemblage successful St Louis.
Unfortunately for the erstwhile NFL star, the lucifer ended erstwhile helium was enactment to slumber via a choke hold. 'Never tapped aht [out],' McAfee aboriginal wrote connected societal media.
The erstwhile Indianapolis Colts prima besides posted a representation showing immoderate scars of battle.
Pat McAfee was enactment to slumber connected his instrumentality to the WWE ringing against Gunther connected Saturday night
It was a archetypal lucifer successful much than a twelvemonth for the 38-year-old erstwhile Indianapolis Colts star
But McAfee's quality astatine WWE Backlash successful St Louis ended successful a brutal loss
'My chest… is ahhh… burning,' helium wrote alongside an representation of his severely reddened body
'My chest… is ahhh… burning,' helium wrote alongside the image, which showed his severely reddened body.
The nonaccomplishment to Gunther was McAfee's eighth lucifer successful WWE and his sixth successful singles. He archetypal stepped betwixt the ropes successful 2020 to instrumentality connected Adam Cole and his astir caller quality - earlier this - came astatine the 2024 Royal Rumble.
Last month, McAfee's look turned reddish arsenic Gunther brutally choked him retired connected an occurrence of RAW.
Gunther appeared successful the mediate of WWE's archetypal post-WrestleMania 41 show, arguing extracurricular the ringing with McAfee and the company's play-by-play commentator, Michael Cole.
The erstwhile WWE World Heavyweight Champion, who mislaid the rubric to Jey Uso arsenic portion of WrestleMania 41, appeared to instrumentality objection with the commentators' disapproval of his loss.
After Cole made a remark to Gunther astir 'tapping out' to Uso, the Austrian grappler mislaid it, putting Cole successful a chokehold.
McAfee jumped successful to prevention his chap commentator and attempted to locomotion distant earlier Gunther enactment a rear-naked choke connected him, yet making him walk out.
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