The wrestling world went into a frenzy when Scott Keith reported that he had been sent an e-mail from a WWE employee claiming that WWE was releasing Daniel Bryan on Monday. Of course WWE quickly issued a statement saying that there was no truth to the rumor.
It turns out that Keith was actually getting trolled big time. A user on Reddit decoded the e-mail and pointed out that the first letter of each paragraph spelled out the word “Scotsman.” Apparently this is a reference to Reddit user The Flying Scotsman who has a rivalry with Keith dating all the way back to the 90s.
You can take a look at the e-mail and the Reddit post below:
“Let’s have a look at the email:
Scott,
Can’t believe I’m doing this – I’m writing from a throwaway account but please keep my details private anyway. Although feel free to paste the whole e-mail or delete it. Sorry just a bit frazzled.
Okay so I’ve been debating all weekend whether to send this e-mail or not. I’ll be honest – one major reason I’m doing this is because when it all comes out I want to silently smile and say “Yep, I called it”. Not out loud or anything but just privately to myself.
This is going to be hard to believe and you probably get a lot of nutjobs writing every day – but I work in WWE HR. I’m not high up the totem pole by any means though.
So on Friday one of my co-workers had to process a release – and that release was for Daniel Bryan.
Monday, January 18th is the date that is listed for when the deal is processed. Not sure exactly why – my coworker was very quiet about the whole thing other than letting a few people know.
And to be honest she didn’t let me know – I’m not in her inner circle. I just overheard her telling someone else and she was in shock.
Not sure why it’s a week away or anything like that as our usual releases are dated that very day. She seemed shocked by it all. Anyway that’s all I know. Going to click send before I chicken out now.
Now let’s take the first letter of every paragraph
SCOTSMAN
Scotsman has been poking fun at Scott Keith since the 90s. Sounds like he was just pranking him.”
