The world’s biggest streamer is keeping the door to a WWE career wide open. IShowSpeed appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Thursday and said that at some point in his career, going full-time with WWE sounds like an inevitability.
“WWE, I mean like, it makes sense,” Speed told McAfee. “I genuinely think at some point in my career, I will take WWE a bit more serious and actually able to deliver my full self into it and immerse myself into it. Right now, I’m still figuring out what I really want to do, you know?” (h/t Fightful for the transcription.)
119 Million Views in His Back Pocket
When Speed talks about delivering his “full self” to WWE, there’s a specific moment he’s standing on. At WrestleMania 42, the 20-year-old made his proper in-ring debut for the company, teaming with Logan Paul and Austin Theory against LA Knight and The Usos. The match opened the show, and Speed made sure no one slept through it.
His Speed Splash off the ring post and through the announce table, sending Logan Paul crashing to the floor, became one of the event’s most replicated clips. The post hit 119 million views on Instagram alone, plus another 14 million across YouTube Shorts. For context, that’s not celebrity-cameo territory. That’s main-event-clip territory.
WWE Noticed Too
It wasn’t just the internet reacting. According to Ringside News, WWE officials praised Speed backstage after the show for actually committing to his role rather than treating it like a photo opportunity. That praise matters, it’s the same distinction that separated Logan Paul‘s arc from the average celebrity walk-on. And it’s exactly the quality WWE looks for when it starts thinking bigger.
This wasn’t Speed’s first time in the orbit, either. He also appeared in the 2025 Royal Rumble, where his sheer chaotic energy made him one of the more memorable moments of the night. The progression from Rumble alternate to full-on WrestleMania tag match is the same path plenty of non-traditional performers have used to build a legitimate wrestling story.
The Streaming Generation’s Gateway to Wrestling
IShowSpeed commands an audience that dwarfs most traditional wrestling’s reach, more than 500 million subscribers across platforms, skewed younger than WWE‘s existing fanbase. When someone like him says wrestling “makes sense,” it’s not a throwaway line. It’s a bridge between two of the biggest live-entertainment ecosystems on the planet.
We’ve seen what happens when streaming meets wrestling and the chemistry is real. Logan Paul went from YouTuber cameo to United States Championship contender. WWE is clearly interested in finding the next version of that story, and Speed apparently is too, on his own timeline.
For now, WWE has a 20-year-old with 500 million followers who just had the internet’s most-replayed WrestleMania moment and is openly talking about going deeper. That’s not a rumor. That’s a story that’s still being written.