So you’ve all read the big news that Mickey Rourke is signed to perform for WWE to have a match against Chris Jericho for Wrestlemania 25. For those out there who know nothing about the profesional wrestling industry, I’m sure you’re wondering by now, “Huh? How are they going to bring in Mickey Rourke in a storyline?”

Here’s how I think they could possibly do it. These are just possibilities.

You know in WWE Roddy Piper has his usual Piper’s Pit shows, where he interviews a special guest? My belief is that, I think Rourke will appear on RAW the week before Wrestlemania or a few weeks earlier to start the big feud with Jericho.

On RAW before Wrestlemania, Piper will probably have his Piper’s pit thing, Piper is out in the ring giving his speech doing his usual screaming and growling through the mic as he speaks, then Piper brings up the movie, “The Wrestler”, he tells the audience that he has seen the movie at the Los Angeles premiere. He goes on saying how great the movie was and how the movie inspires his own wrestling career, and all that, then Piper announce he is going to invite movie star Mickey Rourke to the ring to discuss the movie in front of the audience.

Mickey Rourke starts walking down the ramp on RAW making his way to the ring to the Piper’s Pit as the crowd cheers loudly for him. Bruce Springsteen’s song “The Wrestler” could possibly be Rourke’s entrance theme song, if Bruce gives Rourke and the WWE permission to use it. Rourke enters the ring, Rourke and Piper chat about the movie for a little bit while the audience listens, giving Piper and Rourke chants and cheers.

Suddenly Jericho’ s”Break the Walls Down” music theme song hits, Jericho starts walking down the ring, wearing his usual rich man suit. Jericho takes the mic as soon as he enters the ring. Jericho then starts talking trash at Roddy Piper, saying how much of a washed up nobody and nostalgia hack that Piper is. Rourke decides to step in when Jericho gets out of hand, Jericho warns him to back off or Jericho will give Rourke the smackdown. Jericho goes back to Piper, talks more trash at Piper’s face, when Rourke couldn’t take it anymore, he starts beating the hell out of Jericho and all hell breaks loose. The audience goes wild. Jericho quickly gets out of the ring so he wouldn’t get beaten some more, grabs the mic and challenges Mickey Rourke to a wrestling match at Wrestlemania. Rourke accepts the challenge.

Now, I’m not quite sure what kind of match they will have, whether it will be a tag team or a singles match with just Jericho vs. Rourke (w/maybe Piper at Rourke’s corner or as a special guest refferee). While I’m sure it could be a tag team, I think it should be a single’s match.

Other than that, I’m glad Mickey Rourke is down fo Wrestlemania. The story above is just my prediction, it’s not a spoiler or anything. If it’s indeed Jericho vs. Rourke at Wrestlemania, I really think WWE should have Jericho win it because he would be a more aggressive heel that way.

The question you have to ask is, will Mickey Rourke come in the WWE as Mickey Rourke or will he be in character as Randy “The Ram” Robinson? If Mickey does come as “The Ram”, that be kind of cool, but I would rather see Mickey come in as himself, not in character from “The Wrestler”. Make the storyline more realistic and not gimmicky.

We’ll have to wait and see how they’re going to pull this off and I’m pretty sure Mr. McMahon will be involved in this feud somehow, I can definitely see McMahon screaming, “Who the hell do you think you are?” at Rourke’s face, lol. I’ll keep an eye on this news to find out what they’re planning. It’ll be entertaining for sure.

Kev