5 Former Footballers That Went on to become WWE Superstars

Roman Reigns played football all through college and later onFootball and professional wrestling have pretty close ties. Wrestling promotions have a habit of scouting and recruiting football players every now and then, and this has given us a handful of crossover superstars throughout the years. Some went on to become legendary names, some failed to make the transition work while some others are still working hard to make things work.WWE is still looking for such talents and it explains a lot about how close football players are to becoming professional wrestlers. With that said, here are some of the superstars who managed to successfully transition from the world of football to the world of professional wrestling.

#6 Honourable mentions: Dusty Rhodes and Baron Corbin

Dusty Rhodes, before becoming the legendary wrestler that he is, had a love for football. He played in the Continental Football League for West Texas State and was talked into wrestling by Gary Hart.

Baron Corbin, on the other hand is treated as a big deal in NXT right now. He is having squash match after squash match there and had a solid football career preceeding that.