Irish 'Celeb' Wrestling Fans?

leggo

Random one for you guys: does anyone know of any Irish 'celebs' that are vocal wrestling fans? TV, radio stars, musicians, anyone really.

There are plenty in the UK and US, but I'm drawing a blank when it comes to over here. I've heard 98FM's Ray Foley play The Undertaker's music plenty of times, but I think he's just an old school fan who doesn't keep up with today's product. Just something that came up in conversation recently and I can't think of anyone...

the flananator

David Coffey, the guy from Dan and Becs and writes for RTE, used to work for The Wrestling Channel and was the ring announcer for IWW at their first 'Supershow' event (jesus, what year was that? 2004?). He still Tweets about wrestling a good bit I think.

Not sure if he counts as a 'fan', but Ross Browne is a stand up comedian and a cast member of RTE's 'The Fear', he's a former NWA tag champ and current trainer for CCW down in Cork I believe?

Those are two from the top of my head anyway. Neither are really proper 'celebs' or house hold names though I guess, but they were as good as I could think of!

leggo

Good shouts!

Yeah it's weird. Like I'm sure there are plenty, as I explain to non-wrestling fans it's the type of thing you'll have all kinds from kids to bank managers interested in, but I think the Irish celeb scene is so paper thin that they're almost afraid of admitting it in public. A bit sad on their parts but so it goes...

PTH2009

surly some celebs (well kind off) like the hardy bucks boys are fans of Wrestling.

Eddie Durkan is the image of Sheamus

GTR63

PTH2009 wrote: »

surly some celebs (well kind off) like the hardy bucks boys are fans of Wrestling.

They had a Randy Orton & a Stone Cold poster on the walls in the cottage anyway

the flananator

leggo wrote: »

Good shouts!

Yeah it's weird. Like I'm sure there are plenty, as I explain to non-wrestling fans it's the type of thing you'll have all kinds from kids to bank managers interested in, but I think the Irish celeb scene is so paper thin that they're almost afraid of admitting it in public. A bit sad on their parts but so it goes...

Wrestling just has an image of being really trashy TV, like Real Housewifes or Big Brother or something, which is mostly justified really. While sometimes it reaches the lofty heights of performance art, most of the time its just throwaway fun at best, and total garbage at worst. Take this week's Impact for example. For every exciting AJ Styles/Austin Aries match, there's Mr. Anderson scratching himself like his leather jacket has been infested while Tito Ortiz stares at him for some reason. There's a reason most of our mates think we're eijits for liking it.

leggo

the flananator wrote: »

Wrestling just has an image of being really trashy TV, like Real Housewifes or Big Brother or something, which is mostly justified really. While sometimes it reaches the lofty heights of performance art, most of the time its just throwaway fun at best, and total garbage at worst. Take this week's Impact for example. For every exciting AJ Styles/Austin Aries match, there's Mr. Anderson scratching himself like his leather jacket has been infested while Tito Ortiz stares at him for some reason. There's a reason most of our mates think we're eijits for liking it.

I get what you're saying, wrestling can be cringe-inducing at times even when you love it, but I also think you're giving people too much credit by coming up with excuses to be ashamed of it. I mean, nobody had any problems admitting they were wrestling fans in 1999, and Mae Young gave birth to a hand then.

It's always been cheesy, but there have been several periods when people have come out of the closet as fans en masse or jumped on the bandwagon regardless. So I think it's more a case that people are deathly afraid of what people think and keep their fandom to themselves, celebs in particular since what people think about them is their business.

The Showstopper

Dan Hegarty of 2fm used to be a big wrestling fan but I don't think he is anymore.

Mick Murdock

Ok, not exactly an a-lister, but Eoin McDevitt (formerly of Off The Ball on Newstalk) is a genuinely HUGE wrestling fan. He often talked about it on air. Cool dude too.

Tinie

Those 2 guys on the breakfast show on Beat 102 are or at least used to be big wrestling fans, as they would discuss the big ppvs for a few mins on the monday morning after it.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Victor Barry from Red fm used too do a slot on Charlie Wolfs old night time show JUST about wrestling.

Mick Murdock

Seems to be a lot of DJ's listed here! :pac: Never thought of it before, but I can see why people in the broadcasting/radio business would enjoy pro wrestling.

Diabhal Beag

Big Joe Canning is a big John Cena fan.

GTR63

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Big Joe Canning is a big John Cena fan.

Yet WWE still haven't released a maroon shirt.

antifyre

Continuing on the DJ theme, Ritchie McCormack from Phantom is also a huge fan (even interviewed Foley on the morning show a few year ago)

DM_7

GTR63 wrote: »

Yet WWE still haven't released a maroon shirt.

They should bring one out a version of D Bryans yes, yes, yes shirt with Champ, Champ, Champ on it.

razorblunt

Not Irish I know, but a try scorer in the third test for the British and Irish Lions, Alex Corbisiero is a fan judging by his twitter.

GTR63

DM-ICE wrote: »

They should bring one out a version of D Bryans yes, yes, yes shirt with Champ, Champ, Champ on it.

That'd work 10x better had Galway not made a hames of the Championship this year.

max life

Gerry Ryan used to be a WWE fan. He would often talk about going to WWE shows with his sons. He also done a few interviews with some wrestlers....Mick Foley was one of his interviews afaik.

leggo

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Big Joe Canning is a big John Cena fan.

You can't see him! (...in the All-Ireland Final...)