wrestling / News

Stephen Amell On When His Wrestling Fandom Began, Recalls SummerSlam 2015 Match

September 19, 2024 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
Heels Season Stephen Amell Image Credit: Starz

Stephen Amell competed in his first match at WWE SummerSlam 2015, and he recently looked back on the match and growing up a wrestling fan. The Heels star spoke about the topics in his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, and you can see highlights below (courtesy of Wrestling Inc):

On becoming a wrestling fan: “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**king 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?'”