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Outside of Gronk and football, is there a more perfect match than Gronk and wrestling? It’s like he was born to be the greatest tight end of all-time somehow also born to be a WWE superstar post-football. You guys all know the history with Gronk and the WWE. He’s boys with friend of the site Mojo Rawley, he’s been spotted at various wrestling events over the years, and he made that appearance at Wrestlemania last year.
Now you throw in the fact that he left his future up in the air after the Super Bowl loss and people are starting to think he might make the jump over to the WWE instead of continuing to play and take a beating on the regular. It would be an easy transition, he knows people over there, and like I said, it’s a perfect match.
Obviously, the WWE is now jumping all over this. They know the value in a guy like Gronk. Today it’s being reported that they definitely have an interest and are looking to land a deal with him if he does end up retiring.
Details from Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer newsletter, via Reddit:
This comes at the same time that reports from wrestling indicate WWE is willing to offer a similar style deal to Gronkowski that they offered to Ronda Rousey. Given that would be making far less money than he would make in football, it’s hard to say, but he’s been hurt a lot in football and while wrestling full-time is very hard on the body as well, a part-time deal isn’t so bad. Gronkowski obviously likes wrestling, as he’s been at many WWE events when Rawley was there, including in developmental, and of course, was already part of one WrestleMania, which led to Rawley winning the Andre the Giant Battle Royal, and then they did nothing with him afterwards, so it was more a way to get Gronkowski and ESPN and mainstream sports coverage than to get one of their guys over to star level.
I still think Gronk ends up playing for at least a couple more years, but this is obviously laying the groundwork for a future in wrestling. If it’s not this year or next year, I think we can assume now that some kind of deal will happen whenever he does decide to hang it up.
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