The Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors are going inside the ropes.<\/p>\n
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which owns both clubs in addition to the Toronto Argonauts, Toronto FC and Toronto Marlies, announced a strategic partnership with WWE on Wednesday (Rogers Communications Inc., owner of Sportsnet, has a 75-per-cent stake in MLSE).<\/p>\n
The agreement includes the return of Monday Night Raw to Toronto on Jan. 26, at which some of the city’s sports personalities will be in attendance. WWE stars will attend Maple Leafs games both the night before and after.<\/p>\n
“MLSE and WWE have a long and strong history together, teaming up many times over the years to create iconic entertainment for our fans, and we are thrilled to expand our partnership … to create world-class content,” Phil King, MLSE’s chief business offer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In addition to Monday Night Raw, the agreement will also see the sides collaborate on exclusive merchandise, original content, community-focused programs and regular cross-brand appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors are going inside the ropes. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}