10 Glorious Things That Must Happen In WWE Before 2017
2. Conor McGregor Shows His Face
UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor has spent the best part of three weeks taking potshots at WWE in the media. Whether calling John Cena a “fat, failed Mr. Olympia” or claiming he’d “slap the head off the entire roster", McGregor has whipped the pro-wrestling world into a frenzy, as he so often does in MMA.
McGregor is a shameless self-promoter whose thirst for attention knows no bounds, and he’s never shy of sharing a controversial opinion or twelve. A devout disciple of the philosophy that “no publicity is bad publicity", he’s his sport’s biggest star, and a man who would’ve made a great professional wrestler in another life.
With the apparent bad blood between McGregor at the WWE roster at the moment, it makes too much sense not to bring him in for an angle. Whether his words were off the cuff or a deliberate attempt at working an angle, McGregor has put the cat among the pigeons, and seeing him go face-to-face with John Cena on an episode of SmackDown would send ratings through the roof.
Brock Lesnar’s UFC return and Ronda Rousey’s WrestleMania 31 appearance shows that WWE and UFC aren’t averse to working together under the right circumstances. Though McGregor has been extremely critical of the roster, he did praise Triple H and Vince McMahon in-between rants, so a WWE appearance isn’t out of the question. It’ll no doubt cost a pretty penny, but WWE have to capitalise on this situation while it’s still hot.