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90s Hollywood Superstar Details The Ultimate Warrior Making Him Fall in Love with Wrestling

Published 01/07/2022, 7:00 AM EST

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Over the years, many celebrities have made appearances on WWE. While some of them did it for the money and free exposure, others did it for their childhood-selves, to fulfill a lifelong dream. The Ultimate Warrior

Some of these celebrities include Freddie Prinze Jr., Stephen Amell, and Macaulay Culkin, who are still huge professional wrestling fans.

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Prinze has his wrestling podcast, Wrestling with Freddie, where he talks about wrestling. This week, he had a special guest on his podcast, the Home Alone star, Culkin.

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Both men are famous Hollywood actors from the 90s and have also made appearances on RAW. Freddie was a WWE writer for a short period until he quit his job.

Culkin talks about how The Ultimate Warrior got him hooked to WWE

On the podcast, Freddie asked Culkin how he became a wrestling fan. Prinze also mentioned that Macaulay’s brother was a huge fan when he didn’t care about wrestling.

The Home Alone actor said, “They were showing a replay of Warrior-Honky Tonk Man from SummerSlam 89. And it was the first wrestling match I ever saw on, you know, and as soon as that like, you know, that music hit, I was just like, ‘Who is that guy?’ Yeah, when it comes to not Honky Tonk Man, The Warrior.”

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However, Culkin right away said his older self appreciates Honky Tonk Man and misses guys like him and The Genius. The actor added that wrestling needs more guys like them now. He continued with his story and told Prinze that he was hooked onto wrestling as soon as the music hit.

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“I was looking it up, made sure I didn’t miss anything,” Culkin said.

The Ultimate Warrior got Culkin hooked to wrestling and made him a fan for life. Macaulay mentioned that he loves the guy he becomes when he watches The Warrior on screen.

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The film star ended by calling Warrior a good gateway drug to get kids into professional wrestling. What is your first memory of The Ultimate Warrior? Which superstar made you fall in love with WWE?

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Avani Mishra is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Avani has been a WWE fan since 2008. Her all-time favorite wrestler is John Cena, who is the first wrestler she ever saw on TV.
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