Watch Ozzy Osbourne introduce WWE Survivor Sequence with Black Sabbath’s ‘Struggle Pigs’

Ozzy Osbourne made a shock cameo in a video bundle for World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) over the weekend, as the corporate held its annual Survivor Sequence occasion.

The present, which came about on Saturday night time (November 26) in Boston, used two of Osbourne’s songs as themes: ‘Parasite’, the Zakk Wylde-featuring observe from his newest album ‘Affected person Quantity 9’, and the Black Sabbath tune ‘Struggle Pigs’. The latter was used within the present’s introduction, in anticipation of the “Struggle Video games” stipulation match that pits two groups of 5 wrestlers towards each other throughout two rings and inside a metal cage.

Within the video, footage of Osbourne singing alongside to ‘Struggle Pigs’ whereas sitting in a throne is interspersed with pictures of wrestlers such because the Undisputed WWE Common Champion Roman Reigns (the cousin of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), Drew McIntyre and the WWE Uncooked Girls’s Champion, Bianca Belair.

On the conclusion of the bundle, Osbourne says “Welcome to Struggle Video games”, earlier than letting out his signature evil snigger. Watch the video beneath:

In a press convention that came about after the occasion, WWE Corridor Of Famer and present head of inventive Paul “Triple H” Levesque revealed that he had been in talks with Osbourne to seem at Survivor Sequence in individual and carry out ‘Struggle Pigs’ stay. Nevertheless, Levesque famous that “the timing wasn’t proper” and a deal was struck to movie Osbourne’s video look as an alternative.

Osbourne has appeared at a number of WWE occasions through the years, together with his first look for the corporate going down in 1986 at WrestleMania in Chicago. There, he accompanied the tag group The British Bulldogs to the ring for his or her match towards The Dream Crew. In 2007, Osbourne appeared stay on an episode of WWE Smackdown to carry out his tune ‘I Don’t Wanna Cease’, which was the theme tune for that 12 months’s Judgment Day occasion.

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne made a joint look on WWE Uncooked in 2009, the place they served because the present’s visitor hosts. In each 2020 and 2021, Osbourne’s 2019 tune ‘Straight To Hell’ was used because the theme tune for the corporate’s Hell In A Cell occasions. Osbourne was later inducted into the WWE Corridor Of Fame, becoming a member of the corridor’s movie star wing for his appearances and contributions to the corporate.

‘Affected person Quantity 9’, Osbourne’s thirteenth solo album, was launched in September. In a four-star overview, NME described the album as “one thing of a miracle”.

“At 73 years outdated and battling together with his well being, you won’t count on Osbourne to maintain that bar notably excessive,” it learn. “However, for essentially the most half, ‘Affected person Quantity 9’ does simply that – it’s a fizzing piece of hard-rock magic.”