NFL Prospect Morkeith Brown On Signing With the WWE

Arena Football star and NFL prospect Morkeith Brown recently joined Vaughn Johnson of Philly.com to talk about Brown’s decision to give up football and pursue a career in professional wrestling. Back in August, Brown made Philadelphia headlines when he announced that he was done with football and had signed a developmental contract with the WWE.

Brown had this to say to Philly.com,

“They flew me down for a workout in Tampa and said they were interested in signing a developmental deal. After the championship game with the Soul, I came back down to Orlando.”

Brown told Johnson that he declined taking place in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp in hopes of signing the developmental deal he is now a part of with the WWE. Brown is currently learning how to work a ring, taking bumps, hitting the ropes, etc. Brown comments on his progress by saying,

“I’m learning the small things first – how to hit the ropes, how to fall, how to take a hit, how to hit people and how to tell a story in the ring.”

Brown now joins the WWE roster along side of another former AFL superstar in Titus O’Neil, who once played for the Utah Blaze.