Why Patrick Mahomes was booked as a heel on WWE Raw revealed

Despite being in Kansas, Mahomes got involved in Logan Paul’s attack on Jey Uso with Finn Balor and JD McDonagh of Judgment Day providing very physical assistant.
During the attack, Paul approached Mahomes in the front row and took the quaterback’s Superbowl rings, using them as a substitute for his more familiar brass knuckles.
Uso was able to dodge the attack, however, with JD McDonagh absorbing the blow on his “Klingon-like head”, as Michael Cole described it.

Details have now emerged as to why Mahomes would be presented as the bad guy in his home town with Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio explaining:
“There’s actually a reason for all this, which I’ll get to in a second. But when the show started, it was Patrick Mahomes, IShowSpeed, and Logan Paul coming to the building together.
“[Mahomes] is the biggest star in that city as a babyface, and he’s coming out with heels.
“Some people were bringing up that this makes no sense because Patrick Mahomes was a total heel on the show, even though he’s a babyface.
“The reason behind it was because WWE did not book this segment. It was a sponsored segment, that’s why Patrick Mahomes was there because Patrick Mahomes is part of the Prime energy drink that Logan Paul is also a part of.

“So they basically sponsored the segment and they wanted Logan Paul and Patrick Mahomes to work together in an angle.
Everyone’s going, ‘Why would Patrick Mahomes be booked as a heel in Kansas City? WWE is so incredibly stupid.’
“But in fact, it was not WWE that was stupid. It was something that the sponsors basically put together.”

Uso did find himself on the receiving end of an attack from Logan Paul, although McDonagh’s injury would see surprised faces all round in Judgment Day, as can be seen below.
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