Former Patriots’ tight end and three-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski has reportedly signed a deal to join the WWE. The report also mentioned that Gronkowski will make his debut on March 20’s episode of Smackdown and will make an appearance at Wrestlemania on April 5, according to a company insider. Contract terms have not been disclosed.

The 30-year-old had previously participated in the Andre The Giant Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 33 in 2017, running into the ring to help WWE wrestler and real-life friend Mojo Rawley win the match. In August, Gronkowski said he’d be interested in doing a special match at WWE in “maybe five years” but admitted he didn’t see himself becoming a full-time wrestler.

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“With wrestling, I don’t feel like I would be a full-time wrestler, but there is one thing I’m down for,” Gronkowski said. “And that’s to do one crazy match. Practice it for a little bit, go out there – like in a Royal Rumble – go out there, I got my friend in WWE [Rawley], practice it and do a full-on WWE match. I’m not saying when, maybe five years. I got the rest of my life to do that. I’ve always dreamed about doing that, just one time, going in there and going full-out. That may be a possibility, one time, down the road.”

Rawley caught up with ESPN in October and said the prospect of Gronkowski joining WWE was not impossible. “Hey, man, we’ve got SummerSlam in Boston [this coming August],” Rawley said. “Maybe we’ll do a tag match. I’ve been doing my own thing, but for him, maybe I’ll do a tag match.”

WWE Executives Stephanie McMahon and Paul “Triple H” Levesque were in attendance at the five-time Pro Bowler’s Super Bowl beach party in February, and Lavesque tweeted a photo of the group referencing SummerSlam, a popular pay-per-view that takes place in Boston this year. Now, we’ll see what “Gronk” has in store for his next career.

Ronda Rousey officially signed her WWE contract on Sunday, and in the same day made a major splash at the Elimination Chamber event.

Ronda Rousey Triple H table bodyslam WWE video

The 31-year-old former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion body-slammed Triple H through a table upon Raw general manager Kurt Angle revealing that Triple H and his wife, Raw commissioner Stephanie McMahon had only signed Rousey as a precursor to getting revenge against her.

McMahon then stormed into the ring and slapped Rousey across the face. “Don’t you ever touch my husband,” McMahon snarled. “Who do you think you are, Ronda? Who do you think you are?”

Rousey later tweeted about the event:

It seems the stage is set for Angle and Rousey to team up and take on Triple H and McMahon at the much-anticipated WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans on April 8, WWE’s first signature event of the year.

Rousey enjoyed a long undefeated streak in UFC until Holly Holm knocked her out in the second round of a women’s bantamweight world title fight in November 2015. She did not compete for a year and when she returned, she was knocked out again, this time by Amanda Nunes, in December 2016.

Rousey had made sporadic appearances at WWE events from 2014 to 2017, but officially appeared as a contracted wrestler at the Royal Rumble earlier this year.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 22: Ronda Rousey speaks during Reebok Women’s Luncheon, hosted by Ronda Rousey, on March 22, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Reebok)

Royal Rumble has been one of wrestling’s greatest annual events since the first competition aired on the USA Network in 1988, and next year’s event will be historic.

WWE First Women’s Royal Rumble 2018 News

On Monday night, WWE announced that the first-ever women’s Royal Rumble will take place on Jan. 28, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The company has yet to announce how many women will compete in the match.

“I think that it’s long overdue. There’s been an incredible movement that’s been happening in our business that started nearly three years ago,” Stephanie McMahon, chief brand officer of WWE, proudly told ESPN.com on Monday.

The women’s rosters on Raw, SmackDown and NXT have grown in both size and stature over the last four years, achieving several milestones along the way.

“They’ve been regularly headlining television and pay-per-view events, including their first-ever Hell in a Cell match and first-ever women’s Money in the Bank match,” McMahon said of the big steps forward. “Now, for the first time ever, we’re going to have a women’s Royal Rumble match.”

“Every time our women have had the chance to perform and headline, they have over-delivered, and I have absolutely every confidence that they will do the same thing at the Royal Rumble on Jan. 28. I think that it will be incredibly memorable, I think that they will over-deliver, and I think that fans will get more than their money’s worth.”

The first-ever Mae Young Classic in September featured 32 women from all over the world.

See several famous women’s reactions to the news about the women’s Royal Rumble:

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 18: Sasha Banks arrives for WWE RAW at 02 Brooklyn Bowl on April 18, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

WWE SummerSlam 2016 took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, in front of a sold out crowd Sunday night. The excitement of the fights weren’t as high as anticipated and the two-hour pre-show before the four-hour event made it hard for the show to keep pace and continue to entertain the fans. As fans entered Barclays Center during pre-show festivities, they bought t-shirts outside and took photos with their WWE championship belts, filled with enthusiasm, but as the show wore on some of that enthusiasm turned to boredom. If you didn’t pay the $120 to get inside, you didn’t miss anything. That being said there were some twists and new titles to be fought for as Finn Bálor became the first WWE universal champion.

The kickoff show featured American Alpha, Usos, and Hype Brothers vs. Breezango, Ascension and Vaudevillans, and Sami Zayn and Neville vs. The Dudley Boyz and Cesaro vs. Sheamus. Sheamus defeated Cesaro, Sami Zayn and Neville defeated The Dudley Boz, and American Alpha, Usos, and Hype Brothers defeated Breezango, Ascension and Vaudedillans all via pinfall.

Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens defeated Enzo Amore and Big Cass via pinfall. Enzo, the New Jersey native, and Cass, the Queens native entered the arena Enzo wore Yankees pinstripes and pictures of Notorious B.I.G. on his jacket. The two quoted Frank Sinatra lyrics talked about being from the New York, even though Enzo is from just across the river. According to CBS Sports Owens and Jericho used a Pop-up Codebreaker for the pinfall.

For the women’s championship Charlotte defeated Sasha Banks via pinfall. This fight looked a little amateur and scary as Banks nearly landed head-first in the ring and could have broken her neck. Banks maneuvered a top-rope Razor’s Edge by Charlotte into a hurricanrana and on the second lock in she was able to roll Banks over and keep her shoulders pinned for a three count to take the title as new women’s champ.

Nikki Bella, returned to the ring as a surprise and was hungry for a win. Bella had neck surgery seven months ago.

Bella, Natalya and Alexa Bliss defeated Carmella, Becky Lynch & Naomi via pinfall. Lynch took control of the ring at one point in the fight and cleared it, but that was as much as she would do the rest of the fight. Bella went one-on-one with Carmella, gave her a forearm and put her in a new age Rack Attack to finish the fight.

The main event saw Brock Lesnar defeat Randy Orton via TKO. Lensar was up early, he threw Orton into the announce table on two accounts. Orton looked limp and lifeless when Lesnar was setting him up on top of an announce table and suddenly Orton hit an RKO with a crazed look in his eye. Orton and Lesnar traded an RKO and F5 but neither resulted in a three count. Lesnar jumped on Orton and used his MMA fighting style to mercilessly punch Orton. Orton started bleeding from his head from all the jabs. The referee announced a decision for Lesnar by TKO after Orton was being tended to by doctors in the ring.

AJ Styles defeated John Cena via pinfall. Styles countered an Cena Attitude Adjustment into a Pele kick and the Styles Clash for the two count. Cena gave the AA for a two count of his own, Styles missed a springboard 450 off the top rope, Cena hit a flipping pin combination, Styles gave a German suplex that translated to a facebuster. A tornado DDT and top-rope leg drop by Cena did not give him the ‘W’. Styles hit a Frankensteiner from the corner and tried to finish with his Phenomenal Forearm finisher but no dice. Cena hit his AA from the middle rope but couldn’t keep Styles down for three. Styles finally converted an AA into a Styles Clash and Phenomenal Forearm for the three count.

The Universal championship featured Finn Bálor and Seth Rollins. Bálor won via pinfall but it was a back and forth fight with some classic maneuvers. Bálor missed three straight Coup de Grace attempts and on the third attempt Rollins switched it to a Pedigree but only got a two count. Rollins climbed to the top rope to eliminate Bálor, but he missed and Bálor dropkicked him into the corner. Rollins hit a superplex, but Balor reversed another Pedigree into a stomp and dropkick landing Rollins in the corner again and hit a Coup de Grace to win.

Jon Stewart took part in his second SummerSlam in a row. He was caught talking about RAW commissioner, Stephanie McMahon, in a backstage huddle that she confronted him on, of course and got in the ring later in the show and referenced how he leveled Cena with a chair.

NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 23: John Cena recovers from a blow during his fight against Seth Rollins at the WWE SummerSlam 2015 at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on August 23, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images)