10 Wrestling Facts We Didn’t Know Last Week (August 2)

3. John Cena Called Freddie Prinze Jr "Ashton Kutcher"

Freddie Prinze Jr
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Freddie Prinze Jr was part of WWE's creative team between 2008-2009 and again between 2010-2012. Through it all, the actor tried to marry his love of wrestling with Hollywood nouse to help flesh out stories and tweak the promotion's production style. He did all of that in between relentless ribbing from John Cena.

For the first three months of Freddie's run, Cena called him "Ashton Kutcher". Oh man.

That didn't go down well with Prinze Jr, but he could see that the wrestler was doing it on purpose. During an interview with 'The Ariel Helwani MMA Show', the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' star said he never actually got along with Cena at all. The pair would butt heads several more times when he was in WWE.

Prinze Jr doesn't believe to this day that Cena ever liked the thought of a Hollywood outsider coming in and working so high up in WWE. He recalled pulling Cena out of an "acting class" one day to ask what his problem was. Dude's lucky he didn't get an Attitude Adjustment.

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