Massive Port Adelaide fan WWE star Bronson Reed weighs in on Swans AFL Preliminary final blockbuster

It’s going to be a very late night or early morning in the US for the star who holds the title of being literally the Power’s biggest fan.

It’s going to be a very late night – or very early morning – for the man with who holds the heavyweight title for being literally Port Adelaide’s biggest fan.

Adelaide WWE star Bronson Reed (also known as Jermaine Haley) says he’s got to decide whether to stay up all night or get up at the crack of dawn in the US to see the Power take on the Swans in tonight’s AFL preliminary final.

But he’ll be watching one way or the other as his beloved “Pear” guns for a spot next week’s Grand Final.

“I’ll probably go to bed early and get up early. We’ve got a small baby now who gets up early so that’s probably an excuse to that.

“But I think it’s 5.40am for me will be the game - but I’m hoping as a lifelong Port Adelaide supporter ... my grandparents were Port Adelaide Magpies supporters so I was going for them in SANFL before they came into AFL ... I’m hoping we can get into an AFL Grand Final and not be disappointed. But it’s been a bit up and down with the team this year. Fingers crossed.”

Bronson Reed (Jermaine Haley) in his Port prison bars guernsey ahead of a 2021 Showdown. Picture: Twitter

Reed said Sydney WWE star Grayson Waller had not bought into the rivalry ahead of tonight’s clash at the SCG but there had been plenty of banter between himself and fellow South Aussie WWE stars Rhea Ripley and Duke Hudson, both Crows supporters.

So as WWE’s last Aussie rules fan standing, Reed says he’ll be wishing the best to the Port stars tonight.

“I’ll probably try to send out a tweet tonight in support of them. I am actually an ambassador for Port Adelaide Football Club.

“I wish I could do more but obviously I can’t not being in the country but hopefully next time I visit Australia we can do a little bit of business there.

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“Everyone that’s a kid who grows up playing footy dreams of the AFL. I’m in WWE, I want to be in WrestleMania and that’s still a dream for me.

“The Grand Final is their WrestleMania so why not try your hardest, play your hardest and hopefully we get there. Go the Pear.”

It’s been a long time between visits home for Reed, who bills himself on global television as being from Black Forest in Adelaide’s south, where he lived before being officially signed to the global professional wrestling giant and debuting in 2019.

A much-anticipated homecoming in February when WWE held its biggest Australian live event in Perth (main evented by Ripley) was derailed in bittersweet fashion.

Adelaide’s Rhea Ripley (Demi Bennett) after defending her WWE Women’s World Heavyweight title in Australia for the first time in Perth in February. Picture: WWE

Reed said he had been scheduled for a match with then-WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins, but an injury to Rollins in the lead-up to WrestleMania meant both men missed the WWE Elimination Chamber Perth show at Optus Stadium.

“Obviously you can’t do anything, this is the higher-ups making this decision, but it didn’t sit well with me which is why you saw a month or so ago, I took care of Seth Rollins, that’s always been on my mind.

“And now that I’ve got him out of the way, I’m hoping I can get these World Heavyweight Championship opportunities in the future.

“But, it was a little bittersweet but at the same time we had the baby on the way, we weren’t sure if she was going to come the next day so the plan was going to be that I was going to wrestle in Perth, fly straight back to Orlando and then she’d be born.

“But luckily she was actually born as the Perth show started, so I was where I was supposed to be, I guess”