10 Best Celebrity Wrestling Matches

8. D’Angelo Williams & Moose Vs. Eli Drake & Chris Adonis – Impact Wrestling Slammiversay XV

TNA/Impact Wrestling are no strangers to using celebrities in a bid to garner a bit of mainstream attention, in their very early days calling upon country music stars and NASCAR drivers to generate buzz in the southern markets. 

Come 2017, they had stepped their game up a little bit and were courting highly-touted NFL players. 

Undeterred by a very negative experience with the troublesome Adam 'Pacman' Jones, the company booked the not long retired running back DeAngelo Williams for a tag match at their Big Slammiversay pay-per-view. 

Williams teamed with another former football player, Moose, to take on Eli Drake and Chris Adonis (formerly Masters) in a doubles bout that featured one of the best first-time wrestling performances ever. 

Of particular note was DeAngelo's ultra-smooth hot tag that tore the house down, as the longtime fan looked like a total pro out there hitting moves with a fluency and accuracy that belied his three days of training.

Yes, that's three days of training.

He nailed some great looking strikes, a version of the Codebreaker, a Samoan drop and a standing moonsault in quick succession, which had fans and critics raving. 

Yes, he overshot the finishing frog splash through a table (and nearly broke his neck in the process), but chalk that up to a mixture of inexperience, adrenaline, athleticism and exuberance. 

It certainly didn't take away from what had been a fine showing in what is, to date, Williams' first and last pro wrestling match.