The Bad Ass Construction Worker is not letting Vito take a victory lap off that viral WrestleCon clip.
Big Oja, known online as the Bad Ass Construction Worker, went on the Cody HiZe Podcast and gave his side of the whole Vito mess. He says the clip was not some big real-life beatdown. According to him, it was a weird little wrestling moment that Vito is now playing like he knocked him around for real.
The whole thing started the way most Big Oja drama starts — with him talking trash online and getting people mad. He said he was already doing videos about Brock Lesnar when Vito popped up acting like he should be the WrestleMania opponent. That was all the Bad Ass Construction Worker needed to fire off a video clowning Vito, ICP, and Juggalos. He said it was obvious satire from the jump.
“Veto wasn’t one of them. It was like I had been sh*t-talking the Bronk Legsnar and their stuff. Um, what’s it called? I was sorry. I was reading the comments. Um, yeah, I was doing like the Brock Lesnar stuff and then I saw Vito like challenge like felt like he should be the Wrestlemania opponent to like him and I like kind of laughed because I’m like obviously like people would rather see me wrestle Brock Lesnar than Vito.”
The Bad Ass Construction Worker said he never thought the video would become some real issue, because the whole point was to be ridiculous. He said he was saying names wrong on purpose and doing the kind of old-school trash talk that gets wrestling fans fired up.
“So I did a a video and I think I like dogged him, the Insane Clown Possie and the Juggalos in general. The ICP, like everybody in one video and like I didn’t think it would like get to people like to me. It’s obvious satire.”
Vito apparently did not laugh it off. Big Oja said Vito wrote a long post about his career and Juggalos being family. Oja fired back by saying Vito bored the internet. He also said he later made fun of Vito’s legs and got blocked. Then came WrestleCon.
The Bad Ass Construction Worker said he walked right up to Vito, introduced himself, and made it clear he was not there to fight. He says he told Vito the online trash talk was just rage-bait content and nothing more. According to him, Vito seemed cool at first and even said he was glad Oja was not there to throw hands.
Then Vito allegedly brought him over to his table and got a camera going. That is where the viral clip came from, but Oja says people are buying into a version of the story that is not real.
“And he’s like oh cool. I’m glad you’re not here to fight. And you know, like I said on my buddy’s podcast. He turned around to Russo, Vince Russo, that’s the Bad Ass Construction Worker. So they knew who I was and he’s like, ‘Oh man, come over my table. I’m gonna set up a camera.’ So then that all that stupid. It wasn’t planned. It was like a quick I thought it was going to be sh*t talk or whatever. So that’s why it looks so awkward. And I’m not like swinging or anything, but like he’s he’s kayfabing it like he beat my ass, which he didn’t.”
That is the big line. The Bad Ass Construction Worker says Vito did not beat him up. He says he was just laying there on a table while Vito turned it into a wrestling-style moment. Then Oja went even harder. He said Vito had a 12 million view clip in his hands and still did nothing with it.
In Oja’s mind, that was the real fumble. He said if he had been in Vito’s spot, he would have turned it into a promo, leaned into the heat, and used the moment to get more attention. Instead, he says Vito let the whole thing die.
“But yeah, I was hoping he was going to like milk it because to me the video’s at 12 million views, right? I I would have milked the f*ck out of that. Like I told people, I would have been like, I want f*cking trolls. Y’all don’t f*ck with wrestlers. You don’t f*ck with my fans. Like, but nothing.”
“Just did nothing and it’s like, come on, buddy. It’s like, you didn’t even really beat me up. It was that window of opportunity for him that he just It was a nothing bomb.”
The Bad Ass Construction Worker also made it clear he is not trying to become some full-time wrestler. He said he is a social media guy who talks trash about wrestling, music, sports, and construction. The gimmick is the gimmick. He gets people mad, people react, and the views come in.
That is why he does not like the idea that he is being painted as some guy trying to start real fights with wrestlers. He says the callouts are old-school promo-style trash talk, not real threats.
What do you think about the Bad Ass Construction Worker’s side of the Vito situation? Did Vito blow a huge viral moment, or did Big Oja get exactly what he asked for? Drop your thoughts in the comments.
