Tom Hardy attends wrestling event; Venom is in action

Tom Hardy attended a major wrestling event recently to watch "Venom" in action. Venom: The Last Dance is scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States on October 24, 2024.

Earlier this week, Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel attended a match at Arena Mexico in Mexico City. Volador Jr. portrayed Venom in a match against Hechicero and emerged victorious. After the match, Hardy and Marcel posed in the ring with a giant cardboard cutout of Venom. The account "SonyPicturesXM" shared several photos from the special match, and you can check them out in the post below.

The connection between Hollywood and wrestling continues to grow. The Rock was able to become one of the most popular stars in Hollywood due to his wrestling career. John Cena announced earlier this year at WWE Money in the Bank that he would be retiring from the ring in 2025.

Cena has found success as an actor and likely has a full-time career in Hollywood once his days as an active WWE Superstar are behind him. Batista has also been able to parlay his wrestling career into becoming a star on the silver screen.

Wrestling veteran suggests Vince McMahon could have cost Damian Priest a major movie role

EC3 recently suggested that former WWE CEO Vince McMahon could have prevented Damian Priest from appearing in Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Speaking on Sportkeeda's The Wrestling Outlaws show, EC3 stated that Vince McMahon was possibly out of touch with pop culture and didn't understand the magnitude of the project. The veteran also noted that the company didn't believe that Batista's involvement in Guardians of the Galaxy would amount to anything.

"You know how the rumors or the truth how like out of touch Vince McMahon would be with so many things that are modern in pop culture. I mean, Vince would know, but does he see, 'Black Panther, what?' and just like not understand the Marvel aspect. I think when Batista went to Guardians of the Galaxy, didn't WWE kinda like went, 'Yeah, all right, whatever dude, that's gonna work.' And then, it did." [From 5:50 onwards]

You can check out the video below:

WWE has featured several celebrity appearances in recent weeks. Popular rapper Sexyy Red has appeared in NXT, and Jelly Roll hit a Chokeslam on Austin Theory at WWE SummerSlam earlier this year.