Mojo Rawley On Biggest Transition From NFL To WWE, WWE Performance Center Adding Years To Careers

Source: RauteMusik

Recently, RauteMusik shared a video of the Hype Bros., Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley, participating in a Q&A session with the Scottish media during WWE’s European tour. During the session, Rawley talked about coming to WWE from the NFL, the differing training requirements for professional wresting and professional football, and the WWE Performance Center.

Rawley shared that he got into football at an early age instead of professional wrestling because there was nowhere for children to learn how to wrestle when he was a kid. Rawley went on to say that he turned down pro football offers to sign with WWE and he remains very happy with his decision to leave the NFL. 

“I played football my whole life, pretty much. Wrestling was always the first thing I ever wanted to do. You can’t sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it. I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending. I came back from it and when I was a free agent, I had some offers from the NFL on the table and then, all of a sudden, this offer from WWE kind of came out of left field and I kind of left everything I knew to give this a shot and I’m glad I did because it [has] already paid off and I’m having so much more fun now than I was before it’s ridiculous.”

According to Rawley, the biggest …

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