The XFL announced today its plans to restart in the spring of 2022. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Dany Garcia, along with RedBird Capital, bought the embattled league in late August for $15 million.
The next iteration of the XFL will be its third — WWE founder Vince McMahon, in partnership with NBC, first launched the XFL in 2001, but the effort failed a year later. McMahon then personally spent over $200 million to relaunch the eight-team league in 2018.
The 2020 season kicked off in February, but couldn’t withstand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It ceased operations in mid-April, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.