Throughout the years fans have seen many celebrities make appearances on WWE programming, and back in 2011 Hugh Jackman acted as the guest host for en episode of Monday Night Raw. During the show Hugh Jackman got involved in a singles match featuring Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder when he decided to punch Ziggler in the face.
Recently on the Going Postl podcast Nic Nemeth (Dolph Ziggler) talked about how he tried to hype up the punch on social media with a tweet. However, the tweet didn’t go over well with WWE officials as he claimed that he was threatened with being fired.
“The next day (after moment with Hugh Jackman on Raw), I said, ‘I have to go for x-rays. I may have a slight fractured jaw’ and by the time the next morning came around, I was being threatened with being fired from WWE because I had lied and TMZ was calling them to check on it and I go, ‘I’m just trying to protect the storyline.’ I said, ‘I didn’t say Hugh Jackman put me in a hospital or I’m having a heart attack. I was like, oh, there’s a chance there’s a hairline fracture and I’m gonna get x-rays to keep it vague’, because it’s wrestling… Because it was such a good punch and everybody was talking about it that night and the next day, I was so excited.
It all worked out and Broski was on a tear, I was so excited about it, I go, ‘Let me add a little extra to it’ and then the second-in-command was like, ‘I don’t wanna have to fire you but you’re gonna have to recant and take this down…’ Meanwhile, cut to two years later or the rest of WWE’s existence, they’d be begging for that kind of publicity but whatever and I said it in a nice way but I took it down but, for the next couple of weeks, I wore mouthguards and did Miz’s punch in the face gimmick that he did for a month or whatever… and it was really, really fun. I think I had matches with Miz anyway or Broski and it was like, the whole thing was not to not punch me in the face because my jaw might be broken and it was the best. That stuff makes it so much fun on the weekends.”
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