ECW Manager Shares Roman Reigns Make-A-Wish Story, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood Raises Funds In Reigns’ Name

Former ECW manager and Baltimore, Maryland native Judge Jeff Jones was a recent guest on Colt Cabana’s Art of Wrestling podcast, where he told a story about Roman Reigns and legendary Baltimore establishment Jimmy’s Seafood,

“Real funny story is John [Minadakis, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood Owner] used to be not a Roman Reigns fan. Now, he’s actually one of his real good friends; but, John has a list up on the wall that said, ‘People eat for free and people that are barred.’ The people that eat for free were all his football friends like; Torrie Smith, Ray Rice, baseball players, stuff like that. The top of the do not/barred list was Roman Reigns, so [Luke] Gallows‘ mom [Gallows was a frequent guest] gets the tour of the bar and goes upstairs and takes a picture of the list and comes down and says, ‘Hey, Roman look at this,’ and John’s like, ‘I fired that employee that made that list.’

Cabana asked if that was when the Roman Reigns sucks bandwagon was at its highest, to which Jones replied,

“Yes, but Roman Reigns doesn’t suck at Jimmy’s Seafood because he did one of his Make A Wish appearances for the WWE that he does every week. Well, this one he just so happened to do wearing his Jimmy’s Seafood hoodie, so Jimmy put it up on Twitter and said, ‘Hey, for every like this gets we’ll donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.’ So, with about 24 hours left, we were looking at about a $4,000 donation, which is good because that’s one of Jimmy’s go-to charities anyway. He’s gonna donate money, so why not donate because of wrestling? Then old Roman saw it, had to be vanity searching because he wasn’t tagged. Roman hit the old retweet button, Jimmy’s donated like 13 grand.”

For every "like" this tweet receives by noon Thursday (8/24), we will donate $1 to @MakeAWish! #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork pic.twitter.com/U2XkPZnQ6B

— Jimmy’s Famous Seafood (@JimmysSeafood) August 23, 2017

(Transcription Credit: Michael McClead, WrestleZone)

The trend  continues for John Minadakis and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, who raised $7,500 for Make-A-Wish Mid Atlantic, all in Roman Reigns’ name.

Tonight, we came together to raise $7,500 for @WishMidAtlantic in the name of our brother @WWERomanReigns. Trip, who recently had his wish granted by Roman, was the event’s superstar! #ThankYouRoman #HeCanHeWill pic.twitter.com/DaKhYmt7QX

— Jimmy’s Famous Seafood (@JimmysSeafood) October 27, 2018

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