-- WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi fired back at former booker Vince Russo for comments the latter made about Jey Uso's emotional promo after winning the Intercontinental Title. Russo's original comments about the promo were as follows:
"I don’t understand this. The dude was so emotional, he could hardly speak. I don’t understand. This is a job. The title is a prop. For the life of me, I don’t understand how these wrestlers get emotional over winning a prop. Jey Uso has been around forever, forever."
-- Rikishi, who is the father of Jey and Jimmy, didn't hold back in his response to Russo on his podcast:
"Ok, if you’re listening, Russo, first of all, you can go f*ck yourself. You don’t have the right to even put my son’s name in your mouth. You don’t have a right to talk about somebody that has laced up boots for 17+ years, broken bones, sweat, tear, and blood in that ring. Sometimes 45 minutes. Ladders, chairs match. Split wide open. You don’t have a right to open your mouth of what you think is right for a person when you finally win this so-called motherf*cking prop that you think. When was the first time, when did you ever get your ass in there, run a match, 45 minutes? Anybody can pull up a pencil and write your fantasies of what you think an angle is supposed to be. But when you talk about my boy, when you talk about you didn’t understand, you’re goddamn right, motherf*cker. You didn’t understand."
