#WWE legend Marty Jannetty claims self-defense from ‘rape’ amid police probe

After an apparent murder confession in a since-deleted Facebook post sparked a police investigation in Georgia, former WWE star Marty Jannetty claimed he was defending himself from someone who was trying to sexually assault him.

“I almost got raped. If I couldn’t have handled myself, that dude would’ve raped me,” the 60-year-old Jannetty said in an interview on the Boston Wrestling MWF YouTube channel. “I didn’t say I killed him. I said he disappeared.”

Jannetty, who wrote in the Facebook post he “made a man disappear,” said he wanted to buy marijuana, and the front desk clerk at a local bowling alley in Columbus, Ga., was known to sell it. “What I didn’t know was he lured in little kids,” said Jannetty, who added he was 13 years old at the time.

Jannetty said he went into the man’s car to complete the transaction. “But he reached over and grabbed me down there. And he goes, ‘What’s this?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, nah.’”

According to Jannetty, the “big” man dragged him out of the car and toward the back of the bowling alley, where he allegedly tried to take Jannetty’s pants off.

“I probably don’t need to say this, but there was a brick laying there,” Jannetty said. “What I said in my Facebook post, I’m not gonna lie about nothing, What do you do when you’re 13?”

“I can’t say he deserved to be kill — I didn’t say I killed him. I can’t say he deserved to die, but he deserved to get his ass beat. And when I was beating him in the head with a brick, I was only trying to beat his ass. I wasn’t trying to kill him,” Jannetty added.

In the Facebook post, Jannetty said the man he made “disappear” was never found and that authorities “shoulda looked in the [Chattahoochee] River.”

“Can you imagine dragging a guy — he’s just tried to f–k you in the ass — can you imagine dragging him to the river and throwing him in? And then finding out on the news the dude’s missing? You know the dude. And you know more than that. That f–king affected me bad, bro,” Jannetty said in the Boston Wrestling interview.

TMZ reported Columbus police were investigating the apparent confession. The alleged incident would’ve taken place around 1973.

Jannetty, a former tag team champion as a member of “The Rockers” duo with Shawn Michaels and an intercontinental champion for the then-WWF in the early 1990s, said last year he was in the midst of a 60-day drug and sex bender.