WWE fans had a good laugh after Glock AI completely botched a straightforward wrestling trivia question. The incident started when Ringside News shared a throwback photo on July 5th featuring the now well-known “Green Shirt Guy,” a superfan famously seen in neon green shirts at WWE events worldwide. However, this photo predates the Green Shirt era, showing fans wearing Ravens jerseys during the mid-2000s John Cena vs. Edge feud. Naturally, fans flooded the comments asking, “Who is this famous person?”
When Grok AI was prompted for an answer, it confidently claimed, “That’s a young Kevin Owens (Kevin Steen) in the front row at various WWE events.” Wrestling fans were quick to push back, arguing that the man was clearly the green-shirted superfan. Instead of backing down, Grok doubled down, insisting it was Owens as a fan from the 2000s and that the green-shirted figure was a more recent fan named Superfan Smile. The AI even cited Wikipedia and wrestling archives to support its claim.
The internet was quick to debunk Grok’s error. User Danny Btalks posted pictures of Kevin Steen from around 2000 and clarified that the person in the original photo was indeed the green-shirted fan, sporting a Baltimore Ravens jersey in his younger years. Glock tried to recover by saying the photo showed Kevin Steen at 16 and that Owens appeared different in his twenties when attending WWE shows, but by then, fans had roasted the AI for its mistake and stubbornness in admitting fault.
This isn’t the first time AI has stumbled on wrestling trivia, but it’s certainly one for the books.
Fan Take: This hilarious AI blunder highlights how passionate and knowledgeable WWE fans are about their sport’s history. It also shows the limits of AI in fully grasping niche and fan culture details, reminding us that sometimes human expertise is irreplaceable in the world of wrestling fandom.
