Shrek was released 24 years ago and one of the highlights of the classic film was "the wrestling scene" that took place, featuring Shrek and his tag team partner Donkey taking on a slew of Lord Farquaad's knights. It was a gauntlet style bout that showed the writers really must have been fans of pro wrestling.
In the scene, Shrek performed, in order of appearance, the following wrestling moves.
- A double clothesline
- A dropkick
- A cross body block
- A full nelson
- A headbutt (with help from Donkey)
- A senton (think Rey Mysterio after he hit the 619)
- A chairshot
- Another dropkick
- A suplex
- An ankle lock
- A Tombstone friggin' Piledriver
- And an airplane spin
Donkey also landed the final blow with an MJF-style mule kick, all while Rhonda Rousey's theme song (and also classic rock song) 'Bad Reputation' played in the background. The pair followed up the bedlam with some Hulk Hogan-style taunting and the scene went down as one of the best, in a film that was full of them.
Shrek turned 24 years old this week, which led to a resurgence of this clip, courtesy of the Fightful Twitter/X account and it caught the attention of several wrestlers and wrestling personalities.
Axiom, for instance, QT'd the clip and offered up a perspective that is hard to argue with.
I think Fraxiom vs Shrek and Donkey would go hard… https://t.co/HY4fCXl5Ow
— Axiom (@Axiom_WWE) May 19, 2025
The thing is, he's probably not wrong.
Naturally, Axiom's partner had to question the challenge.
Amigo… please tell me you didn’t get us into a match with Shrek and Donkey https://t.co/CL6UkDirTy
— Nathan Frazer (@WWEFrazer) May 20, 2025
Another wrestler who had less than favorable things to say about Shrek was Mansoor. Taking a cue from Shrek's post-match pandering, Mansoor had the following to say about the Big Green Machine:
Unsafe green piece of shit gets brought in as a new monster heel, proceeds to stiff and take liberties with every underneath guy on the roster. Throws away all his heat by playing to the crowd so much they had to improvise and turn him, only for him to jump ship to FFA. Fuck him. https://t.co/1v0CjZD0m0
— Mansoor (@suavemansoor) May 19, 2025
Harsh, brother.
Shrek is currently streaming on Peacock which, as luck would have it, is also a huge partner of WWE.
