On a recent episode of the “Developmentally Speaking” podcast, Brett DiBiase, a former FCW talent and son of Ted DiBiase, recalled an “initiation” that saw Wade Barrett getting tasered by the cops during a misunderstanding on a particular night back during his FCW days.
The incident took place after DiBiase had moved in with Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, and Wade Barrett during their early FCW days. During a night out at a Tampa Bay bar, a woman jumped on Barrett’s back and thinking it was a guy, Barrett reacted wildly. The next day the FCW trio had to bail him out of jail.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On getting ‘initiated’ into FCW: “They took me out kind of as my initiation. And I’ll never forget, I got this credit card limit for like $2,500 and I’m just like, ‘Okay.’ I knew I know all the stories of how this goes. I’m probably going to be getting ribbed at some point. They’re probably going to get me trashed. And I remember Shane is pouring like [a full amount of] Jack Daniels in a Solo cup, and he was like, ‘Drink.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh…’ And we went to this place called the Blue Martini, it was this bar over there in Tampa.”
On what he remembers from that night: “I don’t remember much other than, I remember [Wade Barrett] got tasered that night by the cops and we had to go get him out of jail the next day. And that was actually — it was a misunderstanding. Because some chick jumped on his back, and he thought it was a guy, and he just kind of naturally did like this, threw the girl down to the ground. And so then the security — and they’re already messing with us anyways, because they just think that — for some reason, they think I guess all wrestlers are just whatever. There’s this persona, right?
“And so I just remember crying, literally crying. Calling dad, saying, ‘I don’t know if I can do this!’ And I woke up, got my bill on my American Express. And apparently that card got used all night, maxed it out first day I had it. And so that was my first week on the FCW side of WWE. I made my dad so proud, the one thing he was worried about, I accomplished all in one night.”
