Tom Brady keeps finding new lanes after football, and WWE may be the next one he’s openly circling.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion has been leaning into a public back-and-forth with Logan Paul, and the latest chapter came at Fanatics Fest in New York City last week. Brady and Paul were seen in a heated exchange with New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns nearby, and the moment escalated when Brady used his right hand to slap Paul across the face.
Towns stepped in as Brady was escorted away, while Paul kept jawing at the future Hall of Fame quarterback. The two also traded middle fingers Sunday while watching the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.
WWE wasted no time amplifying the scene. The company’s official X account posted the slap video, then later shared Brady dressed as The Undertaker. Brady also posted the clip himself and kept the caption short: “Dork.”
That clash didn’t come out of nowhere. The public tension between Brady and Paul was already simmering before the Fanatics Flag Football Classic in March. Paul had been talking up his own athletic ability to Brady, and the two went back and forth until Brady brushed it off as “cute.”
“I love WWE,” Brady said. “It’s very cute.”
Brady’s connection to WWE isn’t just about one viral moment, either. In May, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, two top executives at TKO, the company that owns WWE, confirmed plans for each to buy stakes of less than 10 percent of the Las Vegas Raiders. Brady owns a 5 percent stake in the Raiders.
Then came Thursday’s podcast appearance with WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes, where Brady made it clear he wants a real shot in the ring. During a 30-minute conversation on “What Do You Wanna Talk About? With Cody Rhodes,” the two spent the opening minutes on Brady’s possible WWE future.
“I need to get an invite,” Brady said. “I’ve been waiting for (president of WWE) Nick Khan to come up with some storyline for me to get in the mix. I feel like I’m retired from football, have an opportunity to go out there and still showcase that I’m a little bit of an athlete.”
Brady pointed to Rob Gronkowski and Paul as examples of people who’ve done it, and said he thinks he could “get in there for at least one match.”
“Come on, Nick,” Brady said. “Come on, make it happen.”
The next day, Brady slapped Paul.
Since retiring after the 2022 season, Brady has kept plenty on his plate. He has minority ownership stakes in the Raiders and the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, and he’s in the third year of a 10-year deal with Fox Sports as the network’s lead NFL color commentator.
If WWE does become part of that mix, Brady already knows how he’d fit.
“It’s such an easy choice; I’m a bad guy,” Brady said. “I’ve always been a bad guy.
I feel like when our teams did really well, I would always go into these stadiums, and I would feel that - obviously at home it was great. But when you go on the road, and you’ve had some success in the NFL, they don’t like you.
It’s an incredible feeling when you work that entire day to basically try to send the crowd home early.
“It’s a great feeling when you go on the road, with your 53 players, your coaches, to a visiting stadium, where there are 70,000 fans against you. And with three minutes left in the game, you look up in the stands, and there’s 20,000 people left, and a lot of them are now rooting for you and you realize, ‘OK, job well done today.’”
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