What a mess.
Sadly, Raja Jackson is still free as the Police have yet to arrest the remorseless fighter. Though a good portion of the blame is on Raja, so many people are also passing the buck over to AJ Mana as well. Now AJ’s role in this situation is well known by now: he’s the cowboy in the video who told Raja to get his “receipt” back.
Granted, no one believes that AJ knew the damage that Raja would do to Stu, but him telling an outsider that he should get his “ f**king receipt” has people pointing in his direction that he’s also the culprit. The wrestler released a statement claiming that he was just in character when he said this. It made no sense and people called him out for it.
Now AJ’s professional wrestling career is in a deep hole. AJ (aka Andre) came onto The F Y’all Podcast and explained his side of the situation. It was a nearly an hour podcast of the wrestler trying to clear his name from the allegations.
“One of my brothers is currently in the hospital. Yeah, I said it—my brother. He’s got the same f****** tattoo on his forearm ’cause he’s a cowboy from the f****** Double Six Ranch just like myself. Y’all want to suggest that somehow I would set up my own brother?
Y’all want to push this f****** narrative that me—not the gimmick, the f****** human being? Yes, that’s a good question. So, they made it into a work after the altercation. It is so cut and dry. It’s so obvious. But y’all let these celebrities f****** get on here, that you’ve been marking out for for f****** years, and just gaslight the f*** out of you. The proof is in the f****** pudding. Yes, he went too f****** far. We don’t have to ascertain whether or not he went too far.”
AJ goes into the allegations of attempted murder. What's notable was that Doug Dragon, the wrestler that pulled Raja off of Stu, blatantly accused AJ of premeditation and he went in on trying to despell those rumors.
“I’m trying to absolve myself right now of these false allegations that I somehow—what was the term?—that I prompted or was in attempted… yeah, attempted murder. An accessory to attempted murder. Now, that’s a very f******serious allegation.
I was told to keep my mouth shut, so I tried to handle it in-house. Most of the entire f****** group is pointing fingers at me saying, ‘That’s your boy. You’re responsible for it.’ I am not responsible for what another grown-ass man decides to do. I’m not. If I have a brother who decides to break into someone else’s house and s** in their kitchen sink, is that my responsibility? That would be theirs. Although there is a connection, their actions are not mine. Their actions, I do not pay for. Again, I don’t condone it, but I’m not liable.
This is my frustration. Was there a waiver? You saw everything in the video. That camera never stopped rolling. That camera was on me the entire time to protect me and to protect Raja, to prevent f****** speculation. The part in the f****** segment—this was a vignette unbeknownst to you motherf***** that are saying I put a hit out on him. You didn’t know that was a part of the f****** storyline, did you?”
AJ makes it clear that he didn’t set up anyone, especially one of his brothers.
“I’m not dealing with anything in regard to speculation, rumor, heresy, anything of that nature. I will deal only with my personal experience and the facts as I witnessed them and as I acted and whatever came out of my mouth and whatever I was involved in
“In a video, that was over an hour long, in that entire video, you only see my ass for eight minutes. I had the least amount of involvement in this shit. However, I’m taking most of the heat for it. What’s happening….I won’t get too much into family ties, but it’s very obvious and easy to throw me under the bus.
“One thing I will not do is set up or double-cross another man.”
AJ finally explains why he told Raja to get his receipt and apparently, somebody from production told Jackson to keep hitting him until someone comes in.
“Promoter says, ‘Since this is already on camera, let’s use it and make it part of the show.’ ‘How are we going to do that?’ ‘I’ll give you a chance to roll in on his match and get your lick back.’ I said ‘receipt.’ I didn’t say ‘lick back.’ [pretends to punch himself in the jaw]. That’s a receipt. That’s all the [frick] I told Raja to do!
”The only thing I told him to do was give him a receipt because that’s what the promoter wanted done. The promoter sent me away with Raja to work out the details. I didn’t tell him to go beat that man. One punch.
“Someone pulled him aside afterwards — some jabroni from the bullshit production team, says to him, ‘Don’t just throw one punch. Slam him and keep hitting him until we come in there and pull him off.’ Who the f**k set that up? Guess where I was? Nowhere in the building. I was getting ready for my match.
“‘Get in there and f**k that mother[frick]er up.’ Did that come out of my mouth? No. It came out of the promoter’s mouth. I’m not the promoter. I carried out orders. That’s all.. I was given a script to work out and implement into the show and later pulled from that segment. It’s not my fault. I’m a piece in this puzzle. I was carrying out the order of the promoter.”
If you want to get the full interview check it out. It’s an hour long and filled with lots of cursing (if that wasn’t obvious). I’ll just say this, Raja is a grown man and he’s responsible for his own actions.
Everything AJ said here is alleged since he never shows any proof over the allegations he’s making, especially the claim that someone in production told Raja to keep hitting Stu.
On the positive side, Syko Stu is getting better. His friend, Douglas Malo, says that he’s alert and communicating, though he’s still in the hospital. Check out Stu’s GoFundMe if you want to help out the pro wrestler.