For someone who's never wrestled before, Stephen Amell did a pretty damn good job at SummerSlam last month. He clearly made an effort to look competent in the ring, got pretty beaten up, and unlike a lot of celebrity guests the WWE ropes in, he didn't make the product look like a joke (though neither did the brilliant Jon Stewart to be fair). One person who doesn't agree with that is Stone Cold Steve Austin though, and talking on his podcast this week, he made his distaste of celebrity angles like this one very clear. "I just don’t like the celebrities coming in there, the squared circle, and being able to compete at any level with the guys in the business. You’ve got to protect some of the integrity of the business. I don’t care what day and age, what year it is."
That's an understandable argument, but seeing as Stone Cold was involved in an angle with Mike Tyson which played a role in making him a star, it's also a little hypocritical. Amell has plenty of fight and stunt training and didn't make any of the actual wrestlers look bad. Or did he? "It was what it was, but I just got a hard time seeing that kid come off with that crossbody on the top rope on two WWE guys down there. So, was it embarrassing? You’re damn right it was, but for the wrong reasons, and the reasons were bad booking. It was shoot embarrassing to those guys to have to go out there and do that with the actor guy involved, but that’s on a shoot level, so it was an embarrassment because of the booking, and I felt bad for those guys because they were in that role." As a wrestlng fan it sucks to see celebrities like Hugh Jackman and Flo Rida come on WWE television to make fools out of the WWE Superstars, but that really isn't what happened here...
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