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Big-time professional wrestling will come face to face with rugby league when WWE world heavyweight champion Batista meets the Vodafone Warriors on Friday.
The 196cm, 131kg American is due to arrive in Auckland that morning for a two-day visit to promote next months WWE Smackdown Road to WrestleMania 23 Tour here.
In the afternoon hell be a special guest at a Vodafone Warriors training session, watching the players at work as they complete the first week of their pre-season programme ahead of the 2007 NRL competition.
Kiwis Ruben Wiki, Manu Vatuvei, Simon Mannering and Jerome Ropati joined the squad for the first time since the end of the 2006 NRL when training resumed yesterday after the Christmas-New Year break.
Wikis a self-confessed WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) fan as are a number of his team-mates.
Wrestling, of the more orthodox kind, is part of the Vodafone Warriors training mix from time to time.
Apart from that, the Vodafone Warriors and WWE share a television link. They both have a home on SKY 1, which airs all Vodafone Warriors NRL matches live as well as WWEs Smackdown and Raw shows.
The WWE Smackdown Road to Wrestlemania 23 Tour will be the first time Auckland and Christchurch fans have a chance to get up close and personal with the WWE stars. Two shows are being held, the first at Westpac Centre in Christchurch on February 23 and the second at Western Springs in Auckland on February 24.
The timing doesnt work out well for Wiki and other WWE fans in the Vodafone Warriors. Theyll miss the Auckland show because theyll be in Mackay that weekend for their first major 2007 NRL trial against the North Queensland Cowboys.
The 196cm, 131kg American is due to arrive in Auckland that morning for a two-day visit to promote next months WWE Smackdown Road to WrestleMania 23 Tour here.
In the afternoon hell be a special guest at a Vodafone Warriors training session, watching the players at work as they complete the first week of their pre-season programme ahead of the 2007 NRL competition.
Kiwis Ruben Wiki, Manu Vatuvei, Simon Mannering and Jerome Ropati joined the squad for the first time since the end of the 2006 NRL when training resumed yesterday after the Christmas-New Year break.
Wikis a self-confessed WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) fan as are a number of his team-mates.
Wrestling, of the more orthodox kind, is part of the Vodafone Warriors training mix from time to time.
Apart from that, the Vodafone Warriors and WWE share a television link. They both have a home on SKY 1, which airs all Vodafone Warriors NRL matches live as well as WWEs Smackdown and Raw shows.
The WWE Smackdown Road to Wrestlemania 23 Tour will be the first time Auckland and Christchurch fans have a chance to get up close and personal with the WWE stars. Two shows are being held, the first at Westpac Centre in Christchurch on February 23 and the second at Western Springs in Auckland on February 24.
The timing doesnt work out well for Wiki and other WWE fans in the Vodafone Warriors. Theyll miss the Auckland show because theyll be in Mackay that weekend for their first major 2007 NRL trial against the North Queensland Cowboys.
