“That’s Breaking News”: Internet Gets Sarcastic as Report Points at Glaring Difference Between $800 Million Worth Dwayne Johnson’s XFL Players and NFL Stars

With his evergreen obsession with the sport of American football, Dwayne Johnson took a vast leap in August 2020. The WWE legend ended up buying the startup minor football league XFL. After all this time, now in 2023, the first season has kicked off. Football fans seem to be loving it so far and so are the critics. However, there seems to be a bit of breaking news over the internet regarding XFL.

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Since the new football league is a startup and also has faced a lot of struggles, the remuneration of the players does not seem to be on par with some of the more popular football leagues. Although the amount they earn is still handsome, some have started to compare it with the all-time-popular NFL.

All hell breaks loose on the internet over Dwayne Johnson’s league

As a tweet goes viral, saying, “XFL Players Get Shockingly Low Salary Compared To NFL Players,” all the sports fans assemble in the comments. After assembling, a spam of endless hilarious and sarcastic comments started explaining how this difference in pay was already understood.

That is a great question to put forward.

Another sarcastic comment to make anybody’s day.

People are aware of the facts. That’s the power of the internet over the world of sports.

Yet another hilarious response from a sports fan.

That sounds about right.

The comparison between the two situations cannot be more accurate.

This is actually a pretty positive outlook on the situation. The league is already doing well, considering the circumstances it had to be pulled out from.

Let’s hope to see the majority of these aspiring athletes in the big league in the near future.

Founded in 1999 by WWE’s former chairman and CEO, Vince McMahon, XFL ceased operations after playing just one season in the year 2001. 

How did Dwayne Johnson acquire the league?

Although the league was revived again in 2018, the inaugural season was stopped by the global pandemic at the start of 2020. However, Dwayne Johnson, along with his business partner and ex-wife Dany Garcia, bought the bankrupt league in August 2020 for $15 million. Since then, XFL 3.0 has now found the right time to get rebooted after more than two years of waiting since its acquisition. 

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It appears that the sports enthusiast, Dwayne Johnson, is passionate about the sport. Even though some football fans have lost faith in the league, resulting in the viewer ratings to drop since its 2020 reboot, the Hollywood star is not looking forward to settling down anytime soon.

Let’s hope that the league gets immense success so that the players playing for it get a well-deserved increment in their pay.