Bad Bunny Said He Wants to Put His ‘Life at Risk’ in a WWE Event: ‘I Want to Scare My Mother’
Bad Bunny has participated in a handful of WWE events, and he hopes that at least one more is in his future. While his participation has impressed actual WWE stars, he said he hopes for an even more believable performance in the future. The rapper and singer said that he wants to take it so seriously that his life is at risk.
Bad Bunny said he wants to do one more WWE event
Bad Bunny, who was born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, participated in his first WWE match in 2021. Since then, he has continued to step into the ring and has hopes to do so again in the future.
“I want to do it one more time,” he told Rolling Stone, adding, “I want to put my life at risk in the ring. I felt like I didn’t risk it enough in the ring, and I want to do it.”
While he said he didn’t currently have plans to wrestle again, he wants to set it up. He also wants to train more for the next time.
“I want to scare my mother. When? I don’t know,” he said. “We stay in contact with the people at WWE, we’re always paying attention to what’s going on. But when, I don’t know. I hope there’s a time where I can really get ready, like I did the last few times. And I’d love to take more time to get ready physically.”
Bad Bunny joked that he sometimes wants to do WWE full-time
Martínez likes wrestling enough that he joked he could dedicate his life to it.
“But man, just like in music, I do this to get better and to do something different,” he said. “Sometimes, I say, ‘I’m going to quit everything and just do wrestling full time.’”
He wants to be seen as a wrestler, not a celebrity stepping into the ring.
“I feel like in wrestling, I just go sporadically as a celebrity. I’m going to go full-time and be a heel,” he said. “That’s what I’d love. [Laughs.] I was always a fan of the villains more than the good guys.”
A WWE superstar said he was impressed by him
In 2023, Martínez faced off against WWE superstar Damian Priest. Though Priest does this professionally, he said Martínez impressed him.
“Here he is doing all these moves and being able to take them,” Priest told Billboard. “The fact that he could take all these hits and get back up — and I know he was in a lot of pain — that drive to succeed and entertain, he has it, like we all do.”
Priest felt that music artists fit in well in WWE.
“Music and WWE have always run parallel,” Priest said. “When I describe how to make it in this business through the grind and the struggle, it’s always easier to explain it to musicians because they get it. It’s the same grind. You start performing in front of little to nobody in these greasy clubs, try to get noticed and then build up a reputation and a bit of a following. Hopefully, you get noticed by a record label or an artist who puts you on a tour, [and] it’s the same thing here.”
