Hollywood A-Lister Stephen Amell, who has competed in WWE in the past, appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet to dicuss a number of topics including when he first fell in love with wrestling.
Amell said, “I first fell in love with wrestling, we’re looking at 1987 or something like that. I was six years old and someone got me the VHS tape of WrestleMania 3. Then, of course, I went back and I watched WrestleMania 1, I watched WrestleMania 2. Wrestling became my obsession. I will never forget getting in trouble in third grade [because] some kid accused me of throwing a booger on him, and I don’t think I did, but my punishment was I had my wrestling magazines taken away from me for two weeks. I wasn’t allowed to watch wrestling on Saturday morning. That was devastating.”
On seeing Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI:
“I’m like crying in front of all these different 10, 11-year-old boys. My dad’s like ‘Hey bud, just get it together.’ [I said] ‘Sorry, Hulk lost.’ I didn’t think that him losing was conceivable.”
On competing at SummerSlam 2015:
“I wouldn’t recommend to anybody to have their first match at a premium live event in f***ing Brooklyn. I was so nervous that I forgot to get in the ring.”
On being nervous at the start of the match:
“We decided we were going to start the match off with Cody springboarding into the ring and then my springboarding as well. I was terrified of messing up the springboard … I even said to him right before the match, ‘Do we have to start with the springboard?’”
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