WWE vs NFL: XFL will make its return this Saturday at the hands of The Rock
We are in exciting days for American football fans. A few hours ago Super Bowl LVII was held with the Cansas City Chiefs taking the 2022-23 NFL.
Season against the Philadelphia Eagles. Outside of the National Football League, another company will try to capitalize on the world of the most.
Lucrative sport in the United States. This is the XFL, which will return to activity for the first time since the purchase of the league by Alpha Acquico, LLC.
That group of investors is led by “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia, who will serve as XFL commissioner and CEO respectively.
Similar to its unfinished 2020 edition, the XFL will feature eight separate teams in the “North Division” and “South Division.” Several of the names.
Already seen in the previous season will be repeated for this occasion. The regular season will run for ten weeks from February 18 to April 23.
Followed by two playoff dates on April 29 and 30 and the championship game on May 13. Channels associated with Disney, such as ESPN, ESPN2, ABC.
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And FX, will be in charge of broadcasting the matches, with the possibility of viewing them through the ESPN+ platform and its variants around the globe.
The first game will take place on February 18 at 3:00 p.m. ET between the Vegas Vipers and the Arlington Renegades.
XFL: a history of failures
In 2001, as the rise of the Attitude Era in WWE was unfolding, Vince McMahon teamed up with NBC to launch the first season of the XFL.
The objective of the project was to combine American football with the most characteristic and groundbreaking aspects of wrestling at that time.
The project only lasted one season, receiving negative reviews and a low level of audience on television and public in the stands.
Nineteen years later, Vince McMahon resumed the project in 2020 in order to bring a “fast” version of the leading game in the United States.
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To the public. The season failed to complete due to the COVID pandemic, which forced the suspension of dates.
That cost millions of dollars in losses. McMahon declared the XFL bankrupt and carried out a mass layoff of players and staff involved.
