Jesus Rodriguez Recalls Running Over Santa In WWE, 'I Still Have My Gripe With Him'

Jesus Rodriguez recalls running over Santa.

The December 24, 2012 edition of WWE Raw was very memorable one for fans of the holidays, as Jesus Rodriguez and Alberto Del Rio ran over Santa Claus and sent him out of the arena in a stretcher.

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Nearly thirteen years later, Jesus Rodriguez isn't necessarily apologizing for the event, saying that he still has his gripes with Mr. Claus.

"I have my gripe with him." Rodriguez said while speaking with Fightful for a new interview. "I still have my gripe with him, right? That's why I have trust issues. That's totally why I have trust issues. I never did anything to him. I went for a hug and then Santa went and clapped me with his toy sack. So I have trust issues. But yeah, anytime I see Santa, it's a PTSD flashback."

Rodriguez then addressed the fact that he and Alberto Del Rio went back to being babyfaces after the incident.

"We chatted about that a few times where I believe we were in Brooklyn and it was like TLC where like Alberto saves me from 3MB. So that's where like the turn was happening and then a couple of days later, we ran over Santa. So that was just one of those, I think it was more so just for the sake of the episode and for the sake of the event, the match. Then we went back to being babyfaces right after. But we chuckle about that quite a bit."

Elsewhere in the interview, Rodriguez recalled facing Roman Reigns and Bret Hart in WWE. Check out his full comments on the matter by clicking here.

Furthermore, check out Fightful's entire interview with Jesus Rodriguez in the video linked at the top of this article.

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