5 Reasons why Pro Wrestling companies keep hiring celebrities

#4 It gives long time celebrity fans a chance to connect with pro wrestlers

Freddie Prinze Jr. guest-hosted RAW and then was invited to join the WWE's creative team.

It should come as no real surprise that many celebrities are in fact fans of pro wrestling.

This is especially understandable for actors, who share many of the same facets of pro wrestlers. Acting and pro wrestling are both very much performance arts. One seeks to step onto the stage, screen, or ring and connect with an audience, often in ways both subtle and profound.

One of the reasons why actors respect pro wrestlers so much is that in acting, one has multiple takes, sometimes as many as a hundred or more, to get a performance just right.

But Pro wrestling takes place in front of a live audience (our recent COVID sanctions notwithstanding) so there's only ONE take. It has to be right the first time, period end of the story. One of the more celebrity fans of pro wrestling is an actor and former teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr. He guest-hosted RAW and espoused his love for the industry and WWE in particular. He even admitted to eating the 'disgusting' WWE ice cream bars from the 1980s.

Having celebrities like Prinze, and Stephen Amell--Arrow star and another huge wrestling fan--participate gives a chance for famous fans to indulge their inner child, and also provides connections between the industry and Hollywood.