Not every WWE Superstar can moonlight as a major movie star, and ever wrestler who has dreams of being the next Rock or John Cena can’t always star in a major Hollywood blockbuster. But there have been some stinkers over the years, and with all these different streaming services doing their best to provide original content, there will likely be more of them in the future.Some of these cameos are more memorable than others, but they’re all part of big, steaming piles of bad movies that are nowhere near grand blockbusters. But at least these WWE Superstars gave it a shot.
8 Goldberg In Looney Tunes Back In Action
No one will ever excuse Bill Goldberg of being a good wrestler, let along a master thespian, and yet still he continues to try his hand at both ventures. He made a guest spot in the abysmal Looney Tunes Back In Action, which might have been one of the reasons Brendan Frasier went away for nearly twenty years. Bill shows up as Bob Smith at some point during the film and mixed it up with Yosemite Sam.
7 Jesse Ventura In Abraxas, Guardian Of The Universe
Who would have predicted that not one, but two wrestling personalities would become politicians and end up in cruddy movies? But at least Kane didn’t fashion himself as a movie star. Jesse Ventura, however, would constantly let the WWE Universe know how big of a movie star he was, making cameos in movies from the two muscle-dirven movie stars of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
But in 1991, The Body went out on his own in a sci-fi turkey, Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe. He plays the title role of an alien policeman who hunts down a fellow member of his race, who just so happaned to impregnat a human with a mutant embryo.
6 Buff Bagwell In Day Of The Warrior
Buff Bagwell was a superstar always on the verge of cracking through the glass ceiling. Couple that with his current profession as a male dancer, and it makes sense that he would also wind up starting in a fringe film, right on the cusp of something more mainstream. He was in a flick called The Day of the Warrior. The movie sounds like parody gold. Female operatives go undercover. An ex-CIA agent’s scheme of snuggling. Pornography. Bagwell plays the titular role and even paints himself up to look like Warrior-wannabe, The Renegade. He is the criminal mastermind behind everything, so, sorry for the spoilers.
5 Sable In Corky Romano
Corky Romano features comedian Chris Kattan as the title role, a veterinarian whose mob family force him to infiltrate the FBI and destroy evidence against his mob father (Peter Falk). Sable scored herself a role in the movie as a bouncer who refuses Corky entry into an underground casino. When he sneaks in anyway, Sable shows off more moves than she ever did in the ring.
4 WCW Stars In Ready To Rumble
Leave it to WCW to sign-off on using their stars in a movie that became more famous for its marketing (booking David Arquette to win the World Championship) and featuring a background bodybuilder who would go on to become one of the biggest WWE stars of all time. A guy currently working towards being a pretty big movie star in his own right: John Cena.
But other than that, Ready To Rumble was a huge let down for WCW fans and the wrestling community as a whole. It didn’t help that film stunk either.
3 Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Seth Rollins, And John Morrison In Sharknado 2, 3, 4, And 5
Thanks to the SyFy network’s purposefully ridiculous “sharksploitation” series Sharknado, wrestlers had one more place to work. Most of the films in the direct-to-TV series feature cameos from a litany of stars from all of fields of entertainment. In The Second One, Kurt Angle shows up as a fire chief. Chris Jericho shows up in Oh Hell No as a theme park ride attendant who winds up as shark bait. The titular man of our list, Seth Rollins arrives in The 4th Awakens as a swat team member looking to “super kick that storm back to the dark ages.” John Morrison shows up next as he actually gets to fights off a shark or two in Global Swarming.
2 Kevin Nash In DOA
The DOA fighting game series might not be as popular as Tekken or Street Fighter, but the series still has its fans. Each fighting game has a hook to it: violent fatalities, anime style-looking fighters, or in the case of DOA, beautiful fighters.
In 2006, the popularity of the series made it to the movies. Kevin Nash was able to be part of the proceedings, hamming it up as Bass Armstrong, the father of Jamie Pressly’s Tina. If you’re wondering why Nash looks like a poor man’s Hulk Hogan, it’s because Bass is a poor man’s Hulk Hogan.
1 The Undertaker In Suburban Commando
Thanks to thirty years in the wrestling business, not only is The Undertaker enjoying a well earned retirement, he’s also enjoying a new level of fame. Depending on who’s story you believe, it was a chance meeting with Hulk Hogan that got him in front of Vince McMahon. And he would have a cameo as one of the aliens hunting Hogan’s Shep Ramsey in Suburban Commando. According to Hogan, Mean Mark’s cameo was enough for Hogan to suggest to Vince that WWE should hire him.