Matthew McConaughey Says a ‘Wet Dream’ Led Him to WWE-Style Wrestling Fight in Small African Village

“Standing over me now was a much larger shirtless man, more able-bodied, wearing a burlap sack tied around his waist. He pointed at my chest, then his, then toward a Big. Dirt. Pit,” McConaughey wrote. “I looked at Issa. He smiled. ‘This is Michel. He is the real champion wrestler of the village.’ My heart started racing. Then I heard my own voice whisper, Take the challenge or you will forever regret not knowing. Leave your scent. I stood up, pointed to his chest, then mine, and walked toward the pit. The villagers went batsh*t.”

McConaughey went on to describe the violent battle between the men that occurred during round one of the fight.

“Head-to-head, we spun in a few circles measuring the other’s might before Michel lifted me up and into him, my chest to his face, then body-slammed me to the ground, knocking the wind out of me. One for him,”  McConaughey wrote. “The crowd howled as he tried to pin me. I countered, whipped my hips, swung my leg over his head, and slammed him back. One for me. For minutes we circled, flipped, and smashed each other into the dirt. Neither of us could pin the other. The chief broke it up. I was bleeding, hyperventilating, knees and ankles torn.”

The actor said the fight continued for another round as the pair faced off against one another until there was a stalemate with both of them “locked in the dirt, completely spent, until the chief stepped in and called it.”

Looking back later, McConaughey reflected that this WWE-style fight went down “all because I chased down a wet dream. Literally.”

It’s not the first time the Dallas Buyer’s Club star has claimed a wet dream had changed the trajectory of his life.

In November 2025, McConaughey claimed in another edition of his newsletter that a saucy dream led to him finding love with wife Camila Alves.

“I had met, spent time with, and seriously dated some wonderful women in my life, many of whom I am still friends with today, but ultimately they were all stops, no stays,”  McConaughey wrote at the time. “In my mid-30s, I was looking for a lifetime lover, a best friend, and a mother-to-be. I was looking for more, I was looking for the one, I was looking for her.”

He added, “Then I had a wet dream.”