Before he was a Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey was a big wrestling fan. Now, during a recent interview with entertainment reporter Maria Menounos, herself a fan and occasional wrestler, the Dallas Buyers Club actor has revealed he was twice thrown out of a wrestling show he attended.
He looked me in the eye and got seriously pissed off, and scared the heck out of me after I did it. And I took off running, and they caught me and kicked me out for the second time that night, I brought a paper bag full of old, mushed tomatoes, and Skandor Akbar comes out, and I’m just pelting him. And that was all great until they started really connecting. Then the security found me and they kicked me out. Then I climb through this little bathroom window at Hirsch Coliseum and got back in and spit on King Kong Bundy.Matthew McConaughey
The Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana, has hosted numerous professional wrestling events over the years, including NWA, WCW, and WWE events. However, based on the wrestlers mentioned, it was likely a Mid-South Wrestling show in 1983. Depending on the show’s exact date, McConaughey would have been about 14 at the time, which probably saved him from receiving promoter Bill Watts’ wrath.
Also, in the interview, McConaughey would be asked whether he had any aspirations to wrestle himself and would reply, “You can’t say too much about these things, but it is something that interests me.” When you consider he appeared last year on a ThunderDome screen cheering on Drew McIntyre, it seems something might be on the horizon.
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