The first of WWE’s big announcements this week turned out to be exactly what reports said it would be... Seth Rollins is the coverboy of WWE 2K18, becoming the first full-time, active Superstar to do so since John Cena on 2K15.
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Rollins was a guest on ESPN SportsCenter this morning (June 19) to unveil the cover and talk a little bit about his journey to the honor, his love of video games and other topics (including picking Floyd Mayweather to defeat Conor McGregor in August, and claiming his Chicago Bears have a better chance of winning the Super Bowl than Conor does of beating Mayweather).
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ESPN also has an in-depth feature on the announcement up at their website here.
There was no mention of the other details concerning the marketing of the game which were reported by PWInsider yesterday (read those here, if you don’t mind spoilers, that is), but they did show an old clip of Kurt Angle appearing on SportsCenter to wrap the segment, so...
Stay tuned.