Report: Rob Gronkowski Has Signed With WWE

The Patriots nation will be able to see retired tight end Rob Gronkowski on March 20 on the WWE’s “Friday Night SmackDown.”

The 30-year-old has already worked with WWE before. He was active in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33 in 2017. Gronk jumped the barricade to help wrestler Mojo Rawley win the match. They are really good friends.

FS1’s “WWE Backstage” program reported that Gronkowski and the WWE have reached a contract. According to this, Gronk will join the organization.

Former Patriots’ TE Rob Gronkowski is close to finalizing a deal…with WWE.https://t.co/6RnxZg4kCF

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 11, 2020

Rob Gronkowski and his WWE future

In August, the retired tight end said he’d be interested in taking part in one big WWE match in “maybe five years.” However, Gronk doesn’t see himself as a full-time wrestler.

BREAKING: Rob Gronkowski has allegedly signed with WWE and will be making his debut for the company on the 03/20 episode of SmackDown:https://t.co/gXYZq33vdF

— WrestleTalk (@WrestleTalk_TV) March 11, 2020

“With wrestling, I don’t feel like I would be a full-time wrestler, but there is one thing I’m down for,” the retired tight end 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 told ESPN in October that the idea of seeing Gronk in WWE this year “was not far-fetched.”

“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 Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Stephanie McMahon attended Gronk’s Super Bowl beach party in February.

Gronk won three Super Bowls with the Patriots. He decided to retire in March 2019. Gronk spent nine seasons with the Patriots. He was plagued with pain and injuries, and the pressure affected him a lot. Gronk was selected to five Pro Bowls and he is a four-time All-Pro first-team selection. He was also named to the NFL’s 100^th Anniversary All-Time Team.