Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. spent several years behind the scenes at WWE as part of the creative writing team.
On a new episode of his Wrestling with Freddie podcast, he shared a memory thats now getting people talkinghis claim that WWE used to assign writers to wrestlers based on ethnicity. Prinze Jr. was discussing Rey Mysterios aura when he brought up how he was given the masked legend to write for.
This claim has raised eyebrows. Ringside News can confirmed that we never heard of a system like that being official policy. In fact, white writers have worked with Black wrestlers and vice versa for years. If anything, Freddies language skills may have simply made things easier when collaborating with Rey Mysterio, but theres no confirmation that this was standard practice at WWE.
Freddie Prinze Jr.s story adds another strange chapter to the long list of behind-the-scenes WWE tales. Whether it was a case of stereotyping or just a one-off moment of convenience, the idea of matching writers and talent by ethnicity probably wouldnt sit well with everyone. WWE has evolved a lot since those daysbut stories like this show just how messy things used to get when the cameras werent rolling.
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