The entrance theme music that Samson comes out to is "Slow Death" by artist Zack Tempest. This is the same theme song used by Hardcore Holly in WWE in 1999.
Several WWE superstars appear in this film as themselves including The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Keith Lee, Otis, Sheamus etc. Guest commentators Renee Young and Corey Graves also appear.
In Leo's room you can see posters of WWE superstars most of them being from the "Attitude Era" for example Kurt Angle.
A number of local Canadian Indy wrestlers were used as additional characters in the Tryout camp and tournament.
All of the masked kids catch phrases are actually new and decades old phrases used by actual wrestlers.