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Aaron Rodgers has by no means shied away from his love {of professional} wrestling, together with his well-known “low cost double verify” celebration mimicking him carrying a championship belt.
AEW’s Brian Cage, who went to highschool with Rodgers, mentioned that love for wrestling by no means wavered—even when wrestling wasn’t the preferred factor in school.
” what’s so cool about him? He was a very cool man,” Cage mentioned on Hey! (EW) (1:55 mark). “That was the Angle Period, everybody watched wrestling. Would not matter how a lot they mentioned they did not watch wrestling—everybody watched wrestling. Him being a highschool quarterback, standard man, he by no means pale as soon as. He knew I used to be an enormous wrestling fan, so math class, we might all the time speak. ‘Man, you watch Uncooked final night time? You watch Nitro?’ He knew.”
Cage and Rodgers each went to Nice Valley Excessive Faculty in Chico, California.
WWE references have been a part of Rodgers’ profession, with him even carrying a championship belt throughout his Tremendous Bowl XLV-winning marketing campaign.
The corporate even reportedly offered the concept of Rodgers working a match alongside pal Pat McAfee, although that concept by no means obtained near coming to fruition. McAfee has served as a coloration commentator and in-ring competitor with WWE earlier than shifting on to work for ESPN full time.
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