Fantasy Football League Uses Pro Wrestling Battle Royal to Determine Draft Order
Fantasy football ranges from casual fun to serious business — and somewhere on that spectrum is a fantasy football league that hires professional wrestlers for a battle royal opening ceremony.
The world's top soccer leagues kicked off their 2022/23 seasons earlier this month, so the fantasy football craze is once again ramping up all over the planet. Drafting a team and ranking against others based on how its players perform in real-world fixtures is a uniquely entertaining experience; one that is particularly popular in this late-summer period while the next iterations of the most popular soccer games are still in development. Right now, there's still five weeks until FIFA 23hits the market, while Football Manager 2023 hasn't even been officially announced yet.
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One particularly enthusiastic fantasy football league from the U.S. decided to organize a wrestling battle royal to determine this year's player draft order. Not in the sense that its dozen players dished it out in the ring, but by delegating the dishing to a professional wrestling organization, Mass Anarchy Wrestling based out of Rhode Island. The players were randomly paired with wrestlers, who then proceeded to fight for their drafting interests till the last man. It's debatable whether the end result of this convoluted system was fair, but it was certainly highly entertaining for fans of fantasy football, WWE, and beyond. A video summary of the event has been shared on TikTok earlier this week and can be seen below.
The mainstream gaming industry still hasn't capitalized on the exploding popularity of fantasy football. Arguably the highest-profile attempt at doing so was announced early last year,
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