WWE: 10 Celebrity Guest Stars Who Should Have Wrestled

In 2009 Mickey Rourke made a short-lived comeback to mainstream cinema after starring in The Wrestler as Randy the Ram Robinson. Rumor had it that Vince McMahon personally hated the film, but soon changed his tone when Rourke was nominated for an Oscar. So began a deal between WWE and Rourke for a potential match with Chris Jericho at WrestleMania XXV that (of course) never happened.

The story is now infamous. Rourke was definitely up for the match - perhaps a little too up for it, as he over excitedly spilled the beans at the Screen Actors Guild Awards before WWE were ready to officially announce it. He was then advised by his agents to pull out of the match in case it affected his Oscar chances. 

Sure enough he cancelled the match but the damage was done (the award went to Sean Penn for Milk) and Jericho was left to wrestle Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snucka and Ricky Steamboat in an anti-climactic handicap match (although Steamboats performance almost stole the show - before Undertaker and Shawn Michaels went out and had the best WM match ever).

Mickey Rourke, good sport that he is, still showed up at the show. After Y2J had dispatched the Legends, he called Rourke into the ring. Rourke proceeded to knock Jericho out with quick punch, thus ending his WWE saga.

I'm not saying the match would have been a technical masterpiece, but Rourke was in the best shape he had been in for decades and was absolutely red hot in the public eye. The Houston crowd would have gone crazy for him bringing Randy the Ram to WrestleMania.