10 Most Godawful Celebrity Cameos In Wrestling History
That star power must run on D batteries.
At their finest, celebrities that storm through the world of sports entertainment draw a wider audience to the product, while contributing their unique personalities and special flair. At their worst, they infuriate die-hard wrestling fans, embarrass the company, and push casual fans away even further.
Unfortunately, the majority of celebrity appearances in the wrestling ring have resulted in the latter. They typically just come in, promote whatever rubbish project they're shilling, and turn the whole situation into a joke.
And look, it's not as if wrestling is a particularly serious business to begin with, but the least they could do is play along with the rules we all agree to abide by as wrestling fans. That means that a middle-aged talk show host should not be able to come in off the street and lay waste to someone twice his size.
In Vince McMahon's (and during his WCW days, Eric Bischoff's) eyes, however, it's better to scrounge up whatever mainstream media recognition can be garnered from inserting every random musician, athlete, and TV personality into their programming, making the celebrities look like superheroes while the actual talent loses bucketfuls of credibility in the process.
Think that's an overstatement? Well, let's take a look at just how poorly these things tend to work out.
10. Kevin Federline
We can't start this off without giving a hearty, Stone Cold-approved, double middle finger to the former Mr. Britney Spears. Because seriously...just screw that guy. He's the worst.
With that out of the way, let's talk about the ways the lamest hip-hop "enthusiast" of all time came in and wrecked several different events simply by showing up and being his usual K-Fed self.
Pairing him with John Cena must have seemed like an obvious choice for WWE writers, since they both liked rap music and...well that's it, really. But surely that was enough to position him as a viable heel to take on one of the company's biggest draws in 2006?
Federline came in with a lot of heat, but certainly not the good kind. Every time the guy showed up at a WWE event, he got into it with Cena and the result was usually pretty poor. He slapped Cena in the face during his match with Johnny Nitro, helped Booker T retain his title at Cyber Sunday, and then actually won a match against Cena on the New Year's edition of Raw.
And then...poof. He was gone. Sure, Cena ended up giving him an FU before he ghosted back out of the company, but the damage had already been done.