WrestleMania famously bridges the gap between the in-ring performers and pop culture, providing crossovers of anyone from the music industry to Hollywood celebrities. Sports figures often appear at the Grandest Stage of Them All too, whether wrestling or in a non-contact role, from NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal to boxing star Floyd Mayweather.
With WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia in a few weeks, fans can only wonder which standout from the City of Brotherly Love will show up — but if there’s anyone for WWE to capitalize on, it would be Jason and Travis Kelce, who have transcended sports the last six months with their podcast and Travis’ relationship with Taylor Swift.
It makes almost too much sense for the Kelces to appear at WrestleMania or to just make a WWE appearance one day. The Miz seems all for it, telling TMZ Sports it “seems like a home run to me” (h/t Fightful for transcription).
The way I look at is [as] more of a fan of the Kelces. I’ve played golf with Travis, and what an incredible human being. Even when we were golfing, I was like, ‘When are you coming to WWE? When are you coming to WrestleMania? Jason, I’ve never met him, but those are Cleveland guys, and that guy, he’s played for Philadelphia, it seems like a home run to me. But who knows? He’s retired. He might just want to relax and chill out. Or he’d like to come to Philadelphia for WrestleMania.
The Miz also said he would train Jason, who retired from the NFL earlier this year, to wrestle a WWE match.
Hell yeah. I’d train him into a superstar. As big of a superstar as he is in the NFL, we’ll make him as big of a superstar in WWE. He could be very dangerous in a WWE ring. Not only with just the athleticism and the wrestling, which I think he could absolutely do. I’ve watched him jump up at a Bila game from down, and jump up into a window. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this guy’s 300 pounds. How did he do that? That’s incredible.’ Then the athleticism you see on the football field, but then the charisma [too], the ability to talk on a microphone and be captivating and innovative is something that I think he just has a knack for. So whatever I think Jason Kelce wants to do, whether it is to come to WWE for WrestleMania, wink, or do something in podcasting, which he already is, or if he wants to just do something in the NFL, coaching, whatever he wants to do, I think the world’s his oyster.
The Kelces appearing on WWE programming is a potentially massive crossover draw, especially during the company’s biggest weekend of the year. What better location to make this happen than the show at Lincoln Financial Field, where Jason’s career-spanning team, the Philadelphia Eagles, play, too. Do they have the time to make this work on the weekend of April 6? Fans will have to just wait and see.
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