Amell looks back on his history in wrestling.
Actor Stephen Amell is active within the pro wrestling space. He is the narrator of Cody Rhodes’ documentary on Peacock, he is a part of the wrestling-based television series Heels and Amell has several matches under his belt.
His in-ring debut was at WWE SummerSlam 2015 when he teamed with PAC to take on Wade Barrett and Cody Rhodes, who was donning the Stardust character. Amell was three years into his lead role in the Arrow series at the time.
He looked back on that while doing a Sign-it-Live for Highspots. Amell stated that he wanted to use the Arrow theme for his entrance music. Warner Bros. were going to charge Amell $5,000 to use it. He told them he is not paying anything for it and asked if they were aware that by him competing at SummerSlam, he is promoting Arrow. Their response was they did not set it up and Amell told those at Warner Bros. to ‘go f*ck yourself.’ He was later offered the song but said no.
I asked W.B. if we could use the Arrow theme song for my music (at WWE SummerSlam 2015), and they said yeah and they wanted to charge me $5,000, and I said, ‘Are you guys out of your mind?’ I said, ‘I will not pay you a single dollar. Do you understand that I’m doing promotion for the show?’ And they went, ‘Well, we didn’t set it up. So it’s gonna be $5,000,’ and I said — can we swear on this? I said, ‘Go f*ck yourselves’ and then they called up and they said, ‘We’re happy to give it to you’ and I said, ‘Uhn, uhn…’ I shouldn’t have shared that.
The WWE wrote me a nice — they wrote me something. They did it. It wasn’t as good as what Blake Neely put together for The Arrow score which would’ve been amazing… Oh man, people at studios don’t like when they don’t have their own ideas.
Amell brought up the Heels series and shared that he wanted to blade in the season two finale but the powers that be were against it.
I really, really wanted to blade in the season finale of season two of Heels and they’re just like, ‘No.’
The last time Amell wrestled was in 2018 at ALL IN. He fell in defeat to Christopher Daniels in a singles match that was refereed by Jerry Lynn.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Highspots Sign-it-Live with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
