All Elite Wrestling is a company that employs actual musicians like God’s Hate frontman Brody King and former Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams as full-time wrestlers. AEW has also brought in famous athletes for cameos, such as when Rancid showed up to play Ruby Soho. This weekend, All Elite Wrestling hit the air with a live show from Atlanta, and some random musician cameos, like Jermaine Dupri coming out to walk Jade Cargill to the ring. And during one moment in the show, Kevin Gates Aew had to punch someone out.
Last week, Swerve In Our Glory won the AEW Tag Team Championships in an exciting wild three-way match. Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee celebrated their win on this week’s episode before getting derailed by bad guy manager Smart Mark Sterling and his client Tony Nese. Jermaine “Gates” is a Baton Rouge rapper with a fashion sense of last-century swag power moves. Sterling used this appearance to try to get Gates to sign a petition aimed at getting Swerve fired from AEW and came out during the celebration.
Sterling is good in the funny-asshole role, and we get a lot of that in this segment: “I saw Kevin in the back! I got excited; I thought it was Young M.A! It’s not! It’s not, but Kevin’s cool! He’s got two phones!” Naturally, this led to Kevin Gates refusing to sign the petition, Sterling telling Gates that his music sucks, and Gates taking out Tony Nese with one punch. (Kevin Gates honestly looks like he could hurt Tony Nese,
Gates is not the first rapper to get physical with the wrestlers on Dynamite. There was an awkward top-rope splash by Snoop Dogg last year.
