Tim Tebow has had a protracted and profitable profession, spanning from school soccer, to the NFL, to minor league baseball, and now broadcasting. Tebow’s resume nearly included a stint within the ring, in keeping with WWE president Nick Khan.
Khan joined “The Pat McAfee Present” on Tuesday and revealed simply how shut Tebow got here to creating his WWE debut. After Tebow was launched by the Patriots in 2013, Khan obtained a name from Paul Levesque, higher generally known as Triple H.
Khan was Tebow’s agent on the time, and Levesque needed to gauge Tebow’s curiosity in a doable match in opposition to The Massive Present at WrestleMania XXX.
“After I was an agent in my prior occupation and I used to be making an attempt to get into the WWE occupation, Paul had known as me with an unsolicited name,” Khan mentioned. “This was when Tim Tebow had simply gotten lower by the Patriots. … He mentioned, ‘Hey, what do you consider Tim Tebow in opposition to The Massive Present at no matter that WrestleMania was after the Patriots’ run?’ I mentioned, ‘Properly, what are you pondering?’ He provided some monetary phrases. I known as Tim on the time, ‘What do you suppose?'”
From there, Tebow and Khan had a secret assembly with WWE energy brokers, together with Vince McMahon. The match by no means labored out, and wrestling followers by no means bought to see Tebow throw down with a number of the greatest names in wrestling.
“Tim and I, then, had a top-secret non-public assembly,” Khan mentioned. “Tim Tebow, myself, Vince McMahon, and Triple H in Anaheim, California about that. In the end, it did not occur.”
As an alternative of battling Tebow, Massive Present participated in a battle royal for the Andre the Big Memorial Trophy.