So, the XFL might still have a pulse after all. As I’ve previously written, it has been reported that the twice-failed league, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year after being forced to shutter its doors halfway through its inaugural season due to the pandemic, is actively looking for a buyer.
There are those who believe that that buyer will be Vince McMahon, the mastermind behind the league in the first place—twice. This comes from Dan Kaplan of The Athletic, who suggests that the bankruptcy may have been “just a cutthroat finance ploy by McMahon to ride out the pandemic and resultant economic turmoil without paying the costs of operating the league”.