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XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck reveals the league's most critical key to challenging the NFL

After 19 long years since its last attempt to wrestle the football crown away from the NFL, the XFL is finally back and giving football fans something to cheer for.

The resurrected league, personally financed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) CEO Vince McMahon, is hardly comparable to its 2001 past iteration which even McMahon himself and current XFL CEO and Commissioner Oliver Luck admit was a flat out failure.

This time around, however, Luck tells Yahoo Finance that every aspect of the league — from more polished play on the field, to broadcast partnerships, to business fundamentals — is stronger and ready to weather the inevitable stumbles that have overwhelmed attempts to launch competing football leagues in the past.