10 Wrestlers Who Became Involved In Politics

3. Linda McMahon

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Arguably the most famous wrestling-related political campaign of the modern age, in 2009 Linda McMahon quit her post as CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment in order to run for U.S Senator from Connecticut. She ran as a Republican of course (there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of wrestling democrats), and ploughed $50 million of McMahon money into the campaign.

Her campaign was obviously high-profile to say the least, and the fact that she was the wife of Mr. World Wrestling Entertainment meant extra scrutiny would be placed on her. Her opponents frequently brought up professional wrestling as a means of attacking Linda, but she still did enough to come out on top in the Republican primary.

Linda McMahon would come up just short in her attempt to reach the senate, finishing with 43% of the vote. Her campaign is often considered one of the reasons WWE made the move to PG, a state of affairs which persists to this day.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.