The most powerful sports league in the United States and the most impactful sports entertainment company in the world. The NFL and the WWE have things in common which make them successful and they even have “changed” talent for years, with ring-type superstars Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, John Cena and The Rock tasting the ferocity of American football.
Constantly looking to have the best talent available in its ranks, Vince McMahon’s company has turned to athletes from other disciplines in an effort to improve the show for the public. Strength, dexterity, agility and endurance are necessary qualities in NFL to stand out, as in WWETherefore, the synergy of these sports monsters has common names worthy of the Hall of Fame.
WWE fighters who played in the NFL
- Brock Lesnar: One of the biggest attractions in the history of sports entertainment and one that brought his talents to the UFC. In your college years, Beast he put on his helmet and his first internship with WWE ended in 2004 because he tried to NFL with the Minnesota Vikings.
- Stone: The highest paid actor in the world played in University of Miami As a defensive end, his dream of becoming a professional never came true. In financial bankruptcy, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather to prepare as a fighter, and the world of entertainment in the ring and on the big screen has never been the same.
- Roman Lords: The head of the table He is called to be the next legend of the company, but before reaching the highest level in WWE he was part of Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars as part of defensive teams.
- John Cena: Life took him to Hollywood to star in successful movies, but for a decade and a half he was the most famous WWE face on the planet. What few know is that Marine ended up being selected as All-American in NCAA Division III, in the central position in the team Springfield College and Massachusetts.
- Goldberg: The man with Spear devastating in history has gained brute force with football because he played in the NFL between 1992 and 1994 with the Atlanta Falcons. And he “went back to the grills” for the movie The longest yard along with other fighters such as Kevin Nash, The Great Kahli and Stone Cold Steve Austin, starring Adam Sandler.
Some of the active WWE superstars who have gone through the National Football League include: Mojo Rawley, which was signed by the Green Bay Packers, to later join the Arizona Cardinals in 2010; Baron Corbin as a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals; Titus O’Neil, who was injured by injury to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but played in the Arena Football League.
NFL players who have appeared in the WWE
In this relationship back and forth, I also saw football stars involved in fights. It was recently Rob Gronkowski as host of WrestleMania 36 and even supported the Championship 24/7, although his seed was planted long before in the 33rd edition of the Showcase of the Immortals, when he entered the ring to attack Jinder Mahal.
Long before Gronkowski they were William Perry and Lawrence Taylor, one of the best and most feared defenders in history. The refrigerator was at WrestleMania II in a royal battle, and the second was measured in an official fight against Bam Bam Bigelow at WrestleMania XI.
In addition, I’ve seen other NFL stars show their fanaticism for World Wrestling Entertainment, recalling Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews presenting the World Weightlifting Championship since then during his celebration for Super Bowl XLV.
NFL stadiums as WrestleMania locations
And WrestleMania is nicknamed the Super Bowl of Wrestling It is due to the size of the event, the names that come together and the high demand for tickets to be present once a year, while the gladiators make history between 12 strings.
The third edition of Show WWE shows in 1987 it was the first to be made in a nfl stadium, Today Pontiac Silverdome of Detroit, where over 93 thousand people set a attendance record that was broken by 2016 in Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium, with more than 101 thousand fans.
Atlanta, New York, Phoenix, Miami and New Orleans there are other cities with NFL franchises that have put their properties at the service of the maximum extravagance of sports entertainment and in this 2021 it is the turn Gulf of Tampa, into the Raymond James Stadium of the Buccaneers champion, hosted WrestleMania for the first time, at the 37th edition.
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