Wrestlemania 41: The biggest celebrity games in the history of Wrestlemania, from Lawrence Taylor to Bad Bunny

From the beginning, Wrestlemania was a balance between Wrestling and Hollywood Glitz and Glamor. The excitement about the first Wrestlemania was built on pop star Cyndi Lauper, who led the women’s champion Wendi Richter and the television/film star Mr. T, who was in the main event day -match. Celebrities often put on the pantyhose, and although the results were a kind of hit and Miss (nobody will try to rediscover the size of Maria Menounos’ Wrestlemania 28 -Tag -Match).

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From Wrestlemania 1 to the project of last year’s Philadelphia show case you will find a list of the best:

7. Bad Bunny/Damien priests against John Morrison/Miz: Wrestlemania 37 (2021)

Bunny is a huge music star and has to receive a lot of recognition for how he clearly prepared for this game. He broke out a few flicks, satellite head scissors, Plancha and Canadian destroyers.

However, the match never really felt like a fight, a significantly less polished celebrity could undress. Miz and Morrison are experienced hands and have certainly done their best to install some credibility, but this felt more like a handful of cool Twitter gifs as a complete match. (Still some cool Twitter gifs.)

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6. Lawrence Taylor against Bam Bam Bigelow: Wrestlemania 11 (1995)

Taylor was one of the largest pure athletes in football history, and this sportiness jumped off the screen in this game. You have the feeling that Taylor spent less time preparing for this game than any other celebrity on this list. When he tried to make something complicated, it didn’t look good – but the match still worked completely.

Most of Taylors’ offenses were these jumping forearm slurry, in which he jumped through the air and ended up with an explosive force that terrorized quarterback in the 80s and 90s. Bigelow was a professional, and they could see how he moved “LT” in positions and fed openings and the potatoes that Taylor delivered playfully took.

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Bam Bam was always a bit something, for what reason he never really reached the heights to which his talent and appearance should have brought him. But in his most famous moment he was totally delivered.

5. Hulk Hogan/Mr. T against Roddy Piper/Paul Orndorff: Wrestlemania 1 (1985)

An incredible moment of the 1980s: Muhammed Ali as a special referee, Libarace as a time holder and Billy Martin, who sits on the ring. A change of sea in the way in which professional wrestling was presented. A great Piper performance-a stirrer at all time, which reaches Mr. TS face, cheap, a stooging for Hogan, the entire match with an unimpeded energy, injects a little grit in the shine.

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Mr. T also did a good job with his role and hit some nice takedowns, was a good hot day and came out like a hard guy. Hogan was a master of this kind of spectacle in 1985 and played on cheap sitting with a great expressive sale and moving and delivering what the crowd paid.

4. Kurt Angle/Ronda Rousey against Triple H/Stephanie McMahon: Wrestlemania 34 (2018)

While Ronda Rousey had a few runs as a full-time wrestler, she was a celebrity attraction at that time and came to the WWE after being one of the world’s greatest sports stars as a UFC champion. This was a great example of the excellence of the structure, a classic southern label in which the Katharsis is pushed and shifted to make the moment when it means so much.

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The rules of the game only enabled men to wrestle men and women to wrestle women, so that the start of the game was Triple H to prevent angle from marking in Rousey and forcing his wife into the threshing machine. McMahon could certainly surpass her greeting as an on-air figure, but this was her masterpiece, a cheap disgusting heel that begs the crowd to see how she gets her come-up.

They actually use a lot of bells and whistles to achieve a competition run, with Steph in full hair sweater and eye-rake mode keeps the audience from the moment Ronda catches it to the point where the crowd is not glued when Ronda finally grabs her arm with the arm rod.

3 .. Logan Paul/Miz against Dominick Mysterio/Rey Mysterio: Wrestlemania 38 (2022)

Logan Paul has become a staple of the WWE in the past three years, but came into this game and he showed as a social media star without any previous experience in Ring-and he showed him what would make him such a successful wrestler. Paul only seemed to understand the way to dig under the skin of the fans. There is a moment when Paul Eddie Guerrero’s characteristic combos from Mysterio mocked. It is a place that has been made hundreds of times for Eddie’s death, but simply watch Paul paused after every Suplex to maximize the boos – and his absolutely contemptuous, shimmering small, shimmering on the upper rope in front of the frog splash.

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In today’s days there are many wrestling heels today in which fans cheer them on for “a good villain”. Paul in this match channeled the kind of hate that old women would try to stab Tully Blanchard.

2. Johnny Knoxville against Samy Zayn: Wrestlemania 38 (2022)

Basically a live action Tom and Jerry Cartoon. Knoxville did an enormous job and translated what “Jackass” has made so special in a wrestling match over the years – and Sami Zayn took the type of insane bumps that were necessary to withdraw it.

Huge hands, tables full of mouse claps, bowling balls to the private, crazy amount of punishment. It was as if Kevin against the wet bandits took place live without special effects or cutting. Most celebrity games are based on how celebrity can integrate into the world of the wrestling. This was basically Sami Zayn in an episode of “Jackass” and fit perfectly.

1. Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Big Show: Wrestlemania 24 (2008)

One of the great Pro-wrestling glasses of all time, the ultimate glamor and glamor promist. Mayweather has been the biggest boxing star since Mike Tyson and someone who was opposite with a giant who was £ 250 and one and a half foot. Somehow Floyd’s natural brand of Charisma made the crowd for Goliath to take revenge on David.

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Mayweather was equipped with a retinue to take interference and bumps, but when he got his chances, he showed his dazzling hand speed and force and perhaps threw the worst corporate shots that have ever been in a pro-wrestling ring. Big Show also brought his licks, entered Mayweather’s breast and arms and plunged him around the ring – huge bumps for an active champion boxer (although Mayweather was technically in the middle of one of his many retirement.)

The finish was incredible, and Floyd used distractions to crush Big Show with a chair to Valaop and then with a brass knuckle-supported right hand, which he didn’t even seem to pull a little.