The Reason Mickey Rourke Backed Out Of WrestleMania Match

Mickey Rourke spoke to the Baltimore Sun over the weekend and revealed why his rumored match with Chris Jericho at WrestleMania fell through.

Rourke said, "After I got done with the movie, I really started liking this sport a lot. And I believe it was through Vince [McMahon's] people who said, 'Would you like to come and do WrestleMania and wrestle?' And Jericho's name came up and I said, 'Yeah, I want to do it.' To be real honest with you, because I had left acting for six years to go back to professional fighting, my agents said it would be detrimental to my career."

He continued, "If I took time off at this point in my career and did the wrestling, I wouldn't be taken seriously in the acting world again. I've always enjoyed sports a lot more than I have acting, but they just advised me not to do it. I was kind of disappointed."