WWE and Khan...the ideal tag team to conquer London
The Independent|April 28, 2024
Professional wrestling and politics may seem like strange bedfellows, but that isn’t really the case. There’s a surprisingly rich history of the two crossing over, probably due to their shared tendency to blur reality and fiction, their reliance on larger-than-life personalities, and the fact that most people can’t help but complain no matter who wins.
RYAN COOGAN
WWE and Khan...the ideal tag team to conquer London

Wrestlers like Jesse Ventura and Kane have taken public office, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has expressed his desire to run for the presidency, and we’ve even had a WWE hall of famer as former (and possibly future) president in Donald Trump.

While those sorts of crossovers might seem like a purely US phenomenon, it may be that we here in the UK could begin to see the sport of kings take hold in our own political institutions, as current WWE boss Paul “Triple H” Levesque has reached out to Sadiq Khan about bringing WrestleMania to London.

In fact, it was Khan who first proposed the idea, tweeting “London is already the sporting capital of the world. If I’m reelected next Thursday we’ll go even further. We’ll look to bring WrestleMania, Superbowl and the NBA to London, and put together another bid for the 2040 Olympics.” Triple H, in response, retweeted Khan, simply adding “Let’s talk.”

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