Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff revealed that he almost ended up fighting WWE Hallof Famer The Undertaker after being offered an 'Obscene 'contract by the stanford based wrestling promotion. The all-rounder claime to have received the offer right after retiring from cricket.
Flintoff reveals the story behind WWE contract
Speaking on The Overlap's Stick to Cricket, Flintoff revealed the reason behind turning down the offer from WWE co-founder Vince McMahon.
He said: "I just hid for a bit and started to wonder, 'What am I going to do now?' Some of the TV offers started to come, which was never the plan - I stumbled into that. I nearly joined the WWE, I didn't want to box, that was never the plan! I would have been called 'Big Fred'!"
Flintoff then opened up on his pitch to fight the Undertaker in Manchester and his training for the big bout.
He continued: "What happened was, it got to a point in Dubai where I was unfit, I'd put weight on and I was just not in a good place. I wanted to get fit again, but I needed motivation. As a kid, I loved WWE, so I came up with this idea, because I was doing League of Their Own with Sky, to fight the Undertaker in Manchester."
He added," I wrote this treatment up and presented the idea to Sky, it started gathering momentum and next minute it's being passed onto WWE. I was in contact with WWE...
"Me and the missus have gone over to Tampa, I've got two weeks at wrestling academy. They fly us over business class, next morning we get in the car and go to WWE's academy, two massive units all branded. We're sitting in the car and these things are walking past me, like 6ft 8in monsters"
Why Flintoff gave up WWE contract?
Flintoff realised that he wanted to move back to Dubai and that his kids were interested in cricket and did not want to go to America.
"Two weeks later, I got an email from WWE, saying, 'You can't do your documentary because you'll give the secrets away, we want to put you on a three-year contract.They said, 'We'll fast-track you and in 18 months you'll be at WrestleMania and Royal Rumble."
"The money was obscene, but we wanted to move back from Dubai.The kids wanted to play cricket and didn't want to go to America, so I just changed it to boxing and had a fight instead."
