I like this idea. Why not?! And I have a feeling players that can’t make it in the NFL, just might take to this idea as well! The WWE is looking to recruit cut NFL-ers. Details after the jump…
Via FoxSports:
Dwayne Johnson unsuccessfully attempted to play pro football well before anyone smelled what “The Rock” was cooking in pro wrestling.
WWE is interested in trying to recreate that same show-business magic with NFL players passionate about the rough-and-tumble world of “sports entertainment.”
Jim Ross, a WWE announcer who now assists with the company’s talent-development program, is meeting Wednesday with NFL Players Association officials in Washington, D.C. Ross hopes to develop a working relationship that could lead to the NFLPA funneling players whose football aspirations have ended toward a WWE tryout.
“Everybody doesn’t make the 53-man roster,” Ross told co-host Jim Miller and me Tuesday night on SiriusXM NFL Radio.
“Some guys are going to be looking for work, and we’ve got some job openings. Maybe we can put the synergies of those two entities together and create something wonderful some day.”
Pro wrestling has a long history of athletes who have made a successful transition from other sports. Johnson, who was a defensive lineman at the University of Miami, had a brief stint in the Canadian Football League before following in the footsteps of his father, Rocky Johnson, by signing with WWE in the mid-1990s.
(Story Continues..)
