Assassin’s Creed actor “honored” to return as fan-favorite Ezio in the most unlikely place - AEW wrestler Will Ospreay’s entrance at Wembley Stadium
“We are assassins”
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Yesterday saw All Elite Wrestling’s annual All In pay-per-view return to Wembley Stadium, and one of the featured stars was Britain’s own Will Ospreay, who took the opportunity to once again display his Assassin’s Creed fandom in front of the world with a unique entrance that featured a cameo from Ezio Auditore himself.
Ospreay’s entrance featured branding forAssassin’s Creed Shadows, and you’d be forgiven if you initially dismissed this as a marketing stunt for anupcoming Ubisoft game. ButOspreay has been showing his Assassin’s Creed fandom for years, often wearing an AC-inspired hood to the ring and taking opponents out with a finishing move called the Hidden Blade.
The centerpiece of Ospreay’s All In entrance was a montage of wrestling and video game footage featuring voiceover from Assassin’s Creed 2’s Ezio Auditore, performed by original voice actor Roger Craig Smith himself, where Ospreay is more or less inducted into the assassin’s brotherhood. You can check it out in full below.
“You have no idea how much your role in Assassins Creed played a huge impact in my career,” Ospreaytweetedto Smith in the aftermath of the event. “Thank you so much for being part of the biggest night of my life. We are assassins.”
“Thanks, Will! Flattered and honored to have been a part of this,” Smithresponded. “That a game character could impact folks to the point where THE Aerial Assassin would want me involved in such a massive moment…I’m immensely fortunate! Congrats on your victory! VITTORIA AGLI ASSASSINI!”
While Ezio’s mainline appearances in the Assassin’s Creed series ended with Revelations in 2011, the fan-favorite assassin has continued to cameo in the games and appear in various spin-offs ever since, with Smith occasionally returning to voice the character along the way. I’m fairly confident Wembley constitutes a whole new arena for the character, however.
Like a Dragon Gaiden’s pro wrestling debut was a shockingly entertaining tribute to Yakuza’s goofy violence.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He’s been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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