Was Failed Wrestling Writer Freddie Prinze Jr. the WWE Phantom Leaker?

His awards hopes dashed, Mickey Rourke could still change his mind about WrestleMania, showing up to battle Oscar the Barbarian—a 7′2″ bald giant in gold bodypaint, whose signature move is the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Piledriver.

Meanwhile, another prominent, if less lauded, Hollywood star and ardent wrestling fan has become a very different kind of WWE casualty. Finding himself with some free time on his hands ever since Delgo failed to make him the toast of the CGI V.O. artist community, Freddie Prinze Jr. took Vince McMahon up on an offer to join the Smackdown creative team.

Prinze left the post last week, and the rumour was that he was let go for leaking plot spoilers online. Not so, according to this weirdly written report from wrestling trade site 24wrestling.com:

There has been speculation among WWE staffers that Freddie Prinze Jr. was one of the creative writers leaking WWE information. However, the official reason Prinze left WWE because of the demanding schedule, which is one of the main reasons other writers have departed from the company.

We may never truly know whether Prinze’s midlife career change was cut short because he released the name of Jeff Hardy’s mystery attacker (GIANT SPOILER ALERT: It was Christian!), or because the Scooby Doo 2 – Monsters Unleashed star could never quite hack the rigours of devising intricate storylines for McMahon’s chemically enhanced army of face-sitting leotard-warriors. Either way, there’s no denying the professional sport has lost one of its great ringwriters. Keep plugging away, Freddie. We need voices like yours on the mats.

• Backstage News On Prinze Leaving: Was He The Leak? [24wrestling.com]