The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Wrestler finds Fife MSP Ewing is not ready to rumble
Politics is a rough and tumble old game, but this week it seemed one Fife MSP could strike more fear than most into her opponents.
Step into the ring, Annabelle Ewing, SNP member for Cowdenbeath – and a star of all-in wrestling.
That is if the world of Twitter is to be believed.
In reality, a computer error led to the Scottish parliamentarian wrongly being tagged on social media as a wrestling legend.
Ms Ewing suddenly found herself with quite a few more followers after the autocorrect slip-up led to a genuine wrestling icon mistakenly highlighting her in a post to millions of fans.
Mick Foley, one of the most famous ever stars of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), had taken to Twitter to congratulate fellow legend of the sport Paul Wight – known as Big Show – on signing for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on Wednesday night.
However he accidentally tagged the Cowdenbeath MSP, whose Twitter handle, @aewing4Cbeath, begins in a similar fashion to the promotion company’s.
The wrestling star has a Twitter audience of 1.9 million people, and naturally the post drew a large response.
Many were quick to make light of the incident.
One joked: “I think @aewing4Cbeath will be shocked when she sees her phone and that she has to wrestle Big Show in the morning.”
Another said: “Some Scottish politician is hella confused right now.”
Many created memes augmenting AEW advertisement’s with Ms Ewing’s face – with the tagline “ANNABELLE IS #ALLELITE”.
“Who knew Paul Wight was a Scottish independence supporter,” commented Twitter user @gkirk1983.
Foley was quick to apologise to the SNP politician, who apparently did not notice the activity on her Twitter account until late on Wednesday evening when she wrote: “Who are all these people?”
Foley wrote: “My apologies @aewing4Cbeath for any unwanted attention my last tweet brought you.
“That was my auto correct being far from correct.”
Ms Ewing replied: “No worries. Have had a great laugh tonight.
“Great to see so many new folk taking an interest in Scottish Indy and my campaign!”
Ms Ewing was elected to the Cowdenbeath constituency in 2016.
She previously served as MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife from 2011.
Foley shot to fame for his 1990s wrestling personas Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love.
He has starred in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) – which became the WWE, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and other promotions.
In 2013 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.