Jesse “The Physique” Ventura will probably be returning to the WWE announce desk tomorrow evening when Saturday Night time’s Important Occasion airs dwell on NBC from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Ventura was typically featured on the commentary desk throughout Saturday Night time’s Important Occasion’s preliminary run, the place he’d accompany former WWE CEO Vince McMahon when calling the motion. Final week, Ventura joined “The Invoice Simmons Podcast” to touch upon his return to WWE, when he in contrast it to The Eagles reuniting and defined how he thought coming again to wrestling can be not possible, particularly resulting from his rocky relationship with McMahon.
“Hell has frozen over as a result of I by no means dreamed I might be again within the WWE now WWF till hell froze over,” Ventura stated. “I had a pal Glenn Fry of the Eagles and I bear in mind when the Eagles broke up they thought, oh it is over. We’ll by no means hear one other Eagle track, the variations are an excessive amount of, they’re going to by no means be capable of mend fences and lo and behold Glenn bought collectively and a manner with Don Henley and a manner they go, they got here again…I by no means believed in my wildest goals I might be again doing wrestling once more…for me it is a full circle of my profession, I am unable to return in the USA Navy the place I spent my first six years…I am unable to try this as a result of there’s age limits.”
Ventura additionally said that WWE could not management him when he was first with the corporate and questions in the event that they suppose he might be managed now. Famously, Ventura tried to start out a wrestlers union and would not permit WWE to market him with out negotiating, in the end resulting in his launch.
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