Freddie Prinze Jr. Claims WWE Matched Writers to Wrestlers by Ethnicity

Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. spent several years behind the scenes at WWE as part of the creative writing team.

On a new episode of his Wrestling with Freddie podcast, he shared a memory that’s now getting people talking—his claim that WWE used to assign writers to wrestlers based on ethnicity. Prinze Jr. was discussing Rey Mysterio’s aura when he brought up how he was given the masked legend to write for.

“When I worked at WWE back in the day, they were like, ‘Well, you speak Spanish so you’re working with Rey.’ That’s kind of how the writers got assigned people. It was like, if you’re Black, you write for the Black. If you’re Spanish — they didn’t know I was Puerto Rican. They’re like, you’re Mexican, go work with Rey…”

This claim has raised eyebrows. Ringside News can confirmed that we never heard of a system like that being official policy. In fact, white writers have worked with Black wrestlers and vice versa for years. If anything, Freddie’s language skills may have simply made things easier when collaborating with Rey Mysterio, but there’s no confirmation that this was standard practice at WWE.

Freddie Prinze Jr.’s story adds another strange chapter to the long list of behind-the-scenes WWE tales. Whether it was a case of stereotyping or just a one-off moment of convenience, the idea of matching writers and talent by ethnicity probably wouldn’t sit well with everyone. WWE has evolved a lot since those days—but stories like this show just how messy things used to get when the cameras weren’t rolling.