10 Best Celebrity Involvements At WWE WrestleMania Ever

10. Pete Rose

WrestleMania is a place where sporting icons of other disciplines can come to play and Pete Rose was probably the most unlikely sportsman to have had the longest run on the grandest stage of them all. One of Major League Baseball’s greats stepped into the ring several times and at different WrestleMania’s, yet they all ended the same for the slugger.

Appearing at three consecutive WrestleMania’s between 1998 and 2000, Rose was brought in as a special guest announcer, who of course got major heat with the crowd as he stated Boston was the “city of losers”, this resulted in the first of his encounters with Kane who dropped the baseball hit king with a Tombstone piledriver. Rose proved he was game though a year later, disguising himself as the San Diego Chicken mascot to attack the Big Red Machine ahead of his match with Triple H. Revenge? Nope, another Tombstone.

His final encounter ended up with a double humiliation though, with Rikishi getting in on the act and performing a stink face on Rose. A legend on the diamond turned into one of the best comedy spot takers in WrestleMania history. Rose went on to have a long relationship with WWE, performing in commercials and entering their celebrity wing of the Hall of Fame. A cross over sports star who refused to take himself seriously, breaking the mould for future appearances.