Big E may have retained its Intercontinental title on Apollo Crews on SmackDown last Friday, but it looks like the battle between the two is far from over.
On Twitter, Big E revealed a screenshot of two now-deleted Apollo Crews tweets.
The first reads, “Damn, Big E Langston is short” with the second saying, “Lmao! Big E came on the TV and my little sister and mom said what’s that?!?!”
Both tweets are from early 2013, not long after Big E’s call-up. At the time, future New Day member was paired with Dolph Ziggler and AJ Lee, who served as the Show-Off muscle. The two would challenge Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) at WrestleMania 29 for the WWE Tag Team titles, but ended up falling short. The second of Apollo’s two deleted tweets came about a week later WrestleMania matching.
Crews’ previous jabs at Big E came just a year before he was signed to WWE in 2014. Crews made its debut on television with the first NXT acquisition event outside Full Sail University, NXT takeover: Brooklyn. Although he had limited success on the main list, Crews briefly won the singles championship last year and reigned as champion of the United States before losing the title to Bobby Lashley by the end of 2020.
Since then, Crews has been sent back to SmackDown, where he recently unsuccessfully challenged Big E for his mid-card title. While he came up short on his first try, it’s very possible there is an extensive feud between Crews and E on the horizon if these tweets are anything to get rid of.
You can see Big E’s tweet below:
I have never forgotten. pic.twitter.com/g0bZXdu10d
– Florida Man (@WWEBigE) January 9, 2021