Let’s face it, we’re all scared of something.
Maybe the tough guy/gal inside you reading this is thinking “Huh? Me? I’m not scared of anything!”, but trust me on this one carnalito, you too, like almost everyone else, almost certainly have a phobia, an irrational fear of something or the other.
Maybe you haven’t discovered it yet, or maybe you refuse to acknowledge it. But if a tough person like you and a *somewhat* tough person like myself, too, can have a phobia, then what about the toughest people of them all, the pro wrestlers?
Well, that’s what we’re here to discuss today as I’m going to take you through this list of 5 WWE Superstars and their BIGGEST fears! Some of these might be understandable, while the others might appear to be completely stupid. But these phobias are indeed very real and the Superstars do actually have them.
Let’s proceed and find out who’s scared of what!
#1 John Cena: Acrophobia
John Cena, during an interview with WWE’s official website, revealed that he had Acrophobia, or a fear of heights. This is a fear that, according to Cena, he has had for the entirety of his life!
Cena stated that he had to overcome the phobia as he was required to jump off of a 60 feet cliff for the filming of his movie “The Reunion” (Don’t bother watching the movie, by the way, it was terrible and was universally slammed by critics).
Good on Cena to have overcome his fears, though. The dizzying heights that he has achieved in the WWE would have been very uncomfortable for him otherwise!
Next, let’s talk about one WWE Superstar and figure out “what’s up” with his greatest fear!
#2 R-Truth: Ailurophobia
Ron “The Truth” Killings had a terrible childhood, growing up. Not only did he have to involve himself in several petty crimes to make ends meet, he was also incarcerated for a brief period of time.
However, while R-Truth certainly didn’t have any fear of the law, he certainly did fear something seemingly harmless.
Cats!
That’s right, R-Truth has Ailurophobia, which is an irrational fear of cats. This was revealed on the Season 5, Episode 3 of Total Divas, where Natalya realised that she couldn’t call R-Truth to her party due to Truth’s fear of cats, seeing as how Natalya has a cat (You can follow him on @2Pawz, btw, thank me later Nattie!)
R-Truth apparently developed the fear after he was attacked by cats in his childhood. “Urban cats”, if Natalya’s words are to be quoted. Poor guy, he’s missing out on so many cuddles and furry times!
Anyway, let’s move on next to the irrational fear of a Big Guy!
#3 Ryback: Reverse Kinetophobia
Ryback, it seemed, was always willing to be fed more and more opponents, during his time in the WWE. Seemingly "Fearless" (Sorry Nikki!) it wouldn't seem to the anyone that this big guy would be afraid of anything, but he is!
Ryback has an irrational fear of moving backwards. While this fear/phobia isn't officially named, a fear of movement is called Kinetophobia, so we're going to stick with "Reverse Kinetophobia" for this one (and I'm filing for copyright on that one tomorrow morning).
With that being said, Ryback did end up conquering his fear.
The big man went out and purchased a trampoline for himself in October 2015, he ended up performing close to a 100 attempts to land a backflip, and after sweating through the attempts for several hours, he finally landed one.
We did an article about it on Sportskeeda, which features his Instagram post about the matter as well! Do check it out if you feel like reading more about it.
Next, we move on to a man whose name is chanted by MILLIONS of his fans, but what could he be afraid of?
#4 The Rock: Cleithrophobia
The Rock, The People’s Champ, The Brahma Bull, The Cleithrophobic?
One of these is not like the other. But they’re all true regardless.
The Rock once admitted during an interview that he once went to Disneyland in California with the cast of a movie that he was shooting. While all his co-stars and other people on the set hopped on one of the rollercoasters, the Rock stayed at bay and tried to look busy.
He was asked why he wasn’t getting on the ride, his response? “Important Hollywood stuff”.
Even though Rocky did avoid the thrill ride that day, he couldn’t avoid the questions that popped up afterwards. He later came out and explained that his fear wasn’t limited to (or about) roller coasters alone, he said that he indeed was Cleithrophobic, and that his fear was that of being locked or strapped in.
We hope the Brahma Bull is never locked down by anybody, especially not the WWE Creative team!
Next, let’s talk about the phobia of a certain slithering reptile in the WWE.
#5 Randy Orton: Arachnophobia
Randy Orton is one of the most unpredictable and yet one of the most fan-favourite Superstars in all of WWE. The WWE Universe sure loves their snake, but the snake doesn’t quite love everyone back.
In fact, the Viper actually hates a certain species of 8-legged members of the WWE Universe, seeing as how he has an irrational phobia of spiders!
It’s not entirely unreasonable, though. As some species of Tarantulas do indeed capture and kill snakes. Maybe our Viper, too, has seen something like this happen in front of his very eyes to his reptilian relatives and has developed a fear of spiders since then, it’s okay Randy!
But all jokes aside, Arachnophobia is indeed one of the most common phobias in the world and a LOT of people have it. Randy Orton, too is one of those people and has in the past stated that spiders were his “worst enemies”.
Little wonder then, that he hates the “spider walking” Bray Wyatt so much!
Next, we move on to the most amusingly bizarre phobia in this entire list, which belongs to the most respected member of the WWE locker room!
#6 The Undertaker: Cucumber-phobia?
The Undertaker is not scared of anything in this world, not The Urn, not WWE’s bad booking decisions, not his streak being ended (see what I did there?), not Michelle McCool’s annoying high pitched voice, not him being out of shape for WrestleMania, nothing.
Wait, not nothing, there is indeed one thing that The Undertaker, the DEAD MAN, the Phenom Mark Calaway is afraid of.
Cucumbers.
No, I didn’t misspell it, The Undertaker is indeed afraid of cucumbers. Literally, cucumbers.
The phobia is so rare, that there isn’t a name assigned to it by psychologists yet. It’s not that the Undertaker is afraid of any other vegetables, but the mere appearance of a cucumber triggers him so badly that he throws a fit and his stomach turns.
This was revealed by the late Paul Bearer in a shoot interview with Jim Cornette. The video can be seen below:
Ah well, maybe Roman Reigns should grow some brains (that rhymed!) and bring a cucumber or two to his match against the Deadman at WrestleMania 33, might even end up winning the whole damn thing. A Tuberman Punch to the face? A Cucumber-by? Alright, I’ll stop now.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, that was our list of Wrestlers and their Phobias! We hope you enjoyed going through it as much as I enjoyed penning it down. Please make sure you send in your feedback and suggestions in the comments.
Until next time!
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