The most powerful sports league in the United States and the most impactful sports entertainment company in the world. The NFL and WWE have things in common that make them successful and even have them “exchanged” talent for years, with ring superstars like Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, John Cena and The Rock tasted the fierceness of American football.
In the constant search for the best talent available within its ranks, Vince McMahon’s company has turned to athletes from other disciplines to enhance the spectacle for the public. Strength, agility, agility and endurance are qualities required in the NFL stand out, just like in WWEThat’s why the synergies of these sports monsters have common names worthy of the Hall of Fame.
WWE wrestlers who played in the NFL
- Brock Lesnar: One of the greatest attractions in the history of sports entertainment and someone who also brought his talents to the UFC. In your college days The beast wore the helmet and his first stint with WWE ended in 2004 for trying at the NFL with Minnesota Vikings
- The stone: The highest paid actor in the world starred in the University of Miami As a defensive goal, 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 train as a wrestler and the world of entertainment in the ring and on the big screen was never the same again.
- Roman reigns The head of the table He is called to be the company’s next legend, but before reaching the highest level in WWE, he was part of the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars as part of defensive teams.
- John CenaLife took him to Hollywood to star in hit movies, but for a decade and a half he was WWE’s most famous face in the world. What few know is that The Navy came to be selected as All-American in NCAA Division III, in the middle position on the team Springfield College and Massachusetts
- Goldberg: The man with the Javelin devastating in history got brute force with football because played in the NFL between 1992 and 1994 with the Atlanta FalconsAnd “returned to the grills” for the movie The longest meter 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 that have passed through the National Football League include: Mojo Rawley, which was signed by the Green Bay Packers, to join the Arizona Cardinals later in 2010; Baron Corbin as an offensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals; Titus O’Neil, who was prevented from playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars through injury, but played in the Arena Football League.
NFL players who appeared in WWE
In this back-and-forth relationship, we’ve also seen soccer stars get involved in wrestling. Was recently Rob Gronkowski hosting WrestleMania 36 and he even held the 24/7 Championship, although his seed had been planted long before in the 33rd edition of the Showcase of the Immortals, when he entered the ring to attack Jinder Mahal.
They were long before Gronkowski William Perry and Lawrence Taylor, one of the best and most feared defenders in history. The fridge was at WrestleMania II during a Royal Battle and the second was measured in an official fight against Bam Bam Bigelow at WrestleMania XI.
Plus, we’ve seen other NFL stars show off their fanaticism for World Wrestling Entertainment Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews showing the then World Heavyweight Championship during the celebration for the Super Bowl XLV
NFL Stadiums and WrestleMania Locations
And WrestleMania is nicknamed the Super Bowl or Lucha Libre It’s because of the scale of the event, the names coming together, and the high demand for tickets to attend once a year as the gladiators make history between 12 strings.
The third edition of Show the Shows the WWE in 1987 it was the first to be performed in a nfl stadium, the Today Pontiac Silverdome de Detroit, where more than 93 thousand people set a visitor record that was broken in the AT&T Stadium de los Dallas Cowboys, with more than 101 thousand fans.
Atlanta, New York, Phoenix, Miami and New Orleans are other cities with NFL franchises that have put their properties at the service of the maximum extravaganza of sports entertainment and in 2021 it will be the turn of Tampa Bay, in the Raymond James Stadium from the champion Buccaneers, from hosting WrestleMania for the first time, in its 37th edition.
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