It appears that we know why a fan decided to attack WWE superstar Seth Rollins on Monday night.
During the latest episode of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, Rollins was tackled by a fan while heading towards the locker room.
Barely pay much attention to Raw these days but tonight I turn it on and the first thing I see is Seth Rollins being tackled by somebody who immediately disappears and it is never explained who he was or why he was tackling Seth Rollins pic.twitter.com/RKTPlBaI66
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/kash_vL/status/1462971785960472578
According to ESPN, the 24-year-old man who attacked Rollins was arrested and charged with attempted assault and attempted violation of arts and cultural affairs (disrupting a live sporting event).
ICYMI: A man was arrested Monday night in Brooklyn after an on-air attack on WWE wrestler Seth Rollins at Barclays Center https://t.co/7Rugs6tUEi
— Marc Raimondi (@marcraimondi) November 23, 2021
On Tuesday, the man in question took to Instagram and claimed that the wrestler had scammed him out of money. Unfortunately, it appears that he was duped by a fake Seth Rollins account without realizing it.
The guy who attacked Seth Rollins got scammed and catfish by a fake Seth Rollins account. Welp
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) November 23, 2021
Here are the text messages/DMs of the man’s interaction with a person he believed was Rollins.
the guy attacked seth because he was messaging a definite fake account and believed it and the “business deal” went the wrong way pic.twitter.com/m397OboTQ6
— tangerine (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021
This kids been planning this since 2019 because he messaged a fake Seth Rollins account and he just seemed to eventually stop replying https://t.co/xfp317zRRU pic.twitter.com/1ZL25vHsCl
— tangerine (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021
The fake Seth seemed to have scammed this dude out of hundreds of dollars and then got the guys “bae” arrested because of a fake check. This is sad all around https://t.co/LuAnAQgLyp pic.twitter.com/on4V5QaQvL
— tangerine (@notKHRIS) November 23, 2021