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Dwayne Johnson is doing everything he can to make sure XFL can succeed where the previous owner, WWE's Vince McMahon, failed… not once, but twice The football league struck a deal with Disney that will air games on its owned networks ESPN, FX, and ABC Network rivals FOX and NBC air USFL games, as both[...]

The XFL has failed twice under its founder and the previous owner Vince McMahon, only accumulating one full season in its original incarnation in 2001 and only five weeks of games to show for its 2020 reboot, though to be fair, that season and the league with it fell apart due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading[...]

In the biggest swerve since the name on the contract to purchase WCW did read McMahon, but not Vince McMahon, former WWE Superstar turned Hollywood megastar The Rock has purchased the XFL from former boss Vince McMahon According to a report from Sportico, The Rock, who tends to go more often by his birth name[...]

Vince McMahon and his legal team have delivered that promised legal response to fired XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck's wrongful termination lawsuit, and you won't believe the reason Vince says he fired him Luck filed a lawsuit against McMahon last month, claiming McMahon breached his contract He was fired from his job as commissioner of the[...]

But unlike the WWE wrestlers and backstage talent who were laid off or furloughed by the dozens even as WWE declared a $9.4 million stock dividend for investors and announced $500 million in cash reserves, former XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck has the resources to fight back against the McMahon's practices Luck is suing Vince McMahon[...]

The XFL has filed for bankruptcy, and the legal documents are available online, and they make for some interesting reading It turns out that WWE partially owned the football league after all, despite claims that it would be completely separate from the wrestling company. The world learned last Friday that the XFL had ceased operations and[...]

The XFL might be gone again The pro football league created by WWE's Vince McMahon has fired nearly all of its employees as of Friday morning, according to ESPN sources They are also reporting that the league has no plans to return in 2021 This puts an end to the return of the XFL, which[...]

Of all the companies or social media accounts we expected to throw shade at the XFL, Dungeons & Dragons wasn't exactly the first group to come to mind If you didn't catch the news yesterday, the newly reformed XFL announced the eight new teams that would make up their 2020 inaugural season coming in February[...]

Looking to move out from underneath the shadow of the recently shuttered Alliance of American Football (AAF) as well as learn from its own disastrous past (with the hopes of not repeating it), WWE head Vince McMahon's XFL has announced multi-year deals with both ESPN and FOX Sports to televise league games beginning with the[...]

Vince McMahon's attempt to revive the XFL took a major step forward Wednesday, announcing its start date and the first 8 cities that will get their own XFL teams. XFL Cities and Stadiums: Official Announcement https://t.co/DLE6cq9rfp — XFL (@xfl2020) December 5, 2018 The cities to get teams include New York/New Jersey (even though they already have two, the[...]

In an exciting offer that will allow fans to stock up on all the XFL gear they want before the league launches in 2020, fails spectacularly within one season, and then folds, the XFL has opened its merchandise shop! Why wait to see if the XFL is even something you'll actually like when you can[...]

When Vince McMahon announced that he's going to reboot the XFL in 2020, one question was on the fans of pro wrestling and football fans alike: why? The league existed for one season back in 2001 before failing, and was remembered for the better part of 15 years afterward as a laughingstock But thanks to[...]

Disgraced professional football player and potential future baseball star Tim Tebow doesn't sound too keen on joining Vince McMahon's relaunched XFL in 2020 In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Tebow was asked about McMahon's comments that Tebow would be welcome to play in the league, since he meets McMahon's standards of being a "quality human[...]

I mean a real stream, btw…Wonka style! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGSMfhzetY&feature=youtu.beVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Weekly Static s01e24: ABC Firsts, XFL Seconds Plus Three More! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGSMfhzetY&feature=youtu.be) Shameless's William H Macy on All-Male Time's Up Meet, Gender Equality ABC to 'Get Christie Love' Pilot from Power's Courtney Kemp Oprah Winfrey on Presidential Bid: "Not Something That Interests Me" Vince McMahon[...]

Having learned nothing from the last time, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced today that he will relaunch the XFL under his new company, Alpha Entertainment founded using $100 million of WWE stock Vince sold to fund the venture In a press conference, Vince explained the plans for launching the league and addressed in more depth than[...]

ESPN host and former WWE Raw commentator Jonathan Coachman would apparently be interested in joining Vince McMahon's reboot of the failed XFL. "Best believe Vince has been doing some kind of research behind the scenes because he's not going to come out and blow 50 or 100 million dollars on something that he has already tried,"[...]

Presidential Election (and I wish I was joking about that one) and a chance at twenty minutes of stand-up at Carolines's on Broadway in NYC. Is WWE Chairman Vince McMahon Planning to Reboot the XFL? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLy_c1s-WyEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: TWS19 XFL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLy_c1s-WyE) ESPN President John Skipper Resigns to Battle Substance Addiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7p2ZRMLMpUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

In a world where the ratings for both professional Football and professional wrestling are on the decline, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has a plan to save both industries: he's going to relaunch the XFL, an alternative football league that the WWE tried once before as a joint venture with NBC that lasted for one season,[...]

It's beginning to look a lot like Vince McMahon is planning to relaunch the XFL, the ill-fated competitor to the NFL that lasted for one glorious season in 2001. The XFL aimed to bring the theatrics of pro wrestling to the world of professional football. With eight teams (all owned by the XFL) with names that would[...]

However, with an upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 documentary telling the ill-fated league's story coming out on February 2, the XFL is getting a hall of fame. Well, it'll just be a "pop up" hall of fame, and it appears to be aimed more at promoting the documentary than anything else It will open on January[...]

With 8 teams (all owned by the XFL) with names that would make Rob Liefeld proud, such as the Los Angeles Xtreme and the Memphis Maniax, players such as "He Hate Me," announcers like Jesse "The Body" Ventura and "Good Ol'" Jim Ross, scantily clad cheerleaders, and pre-show hosts New York City shock jocks Opie and[...]