We stated two weeks in the past when ‘Stone Chilly’ Steve Austin’s return at WrestleMania was mooted that WWE was pulling out all of the stops.
However that they had yet another cease to tug.
WWE chairman Vince McMahon, aged 76 years previous, is reportedly set to make his in-ring wrestling return at WrestleMania 38 in Dallas (April 3 and April 4 AEDT).
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The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported the present WrestleMania plan sees McMahon going through commentator and former NFL punter Pat McAfee in a singles match.
Hypothesis started when McMahon was introduced for an interview on McAfee’s podcast; the WWE head honcho hasn’t been interviewed on-camera since 2014. It’s virtually sure this interview might be used to spark this system that ends of their Mania match.
McAfee has wrestled earlier than, impressing along with his athleticism and keenness in two appearances within the NXT developmental league, together with a properly-good 16-minute match with Adam Cole in August 2020.
However McMahon hasn’t wrestled in 12 years, when he and Bret Hart had one of many worst matches in WrestleMania historical past at XXVI – and that was already a match that needed to work across the bodily limitations of each McMahon and stroke sufferer Hart.
The character of Mr McMahon is without doubt one of the nice heels in professional wrestling historical past and through the late 90s he duelled with Steve Austin and others, together with profitable the 1999 Royal Rumble and briefly holding the heavyweight championship later that yr.
He additionally held the ECW championship in 2007 earlier than being phased out of in-ring competitors.
McMahon has appeared much less steadily on WWE tv over time given his superior age however returned in latest months, together with a storyline the place somebody stole a golden egg given to him by The Rock.
McMahon has since been seen in segments with younger wrestler Austin Idea, who may find yourself getting concerned within the McAfee match.
The long-time WWE boss turns 77 this August. The oldest individual to ever wrestle in WWE was Mae Younger, who had a quick and hardly bodily TV match in 2010 aged 87, whereas The Fabulous Moolah wrestled a tag match with Younger on WWE tv aged 81.