Soccer Slammers: The figurines that turn football stars into wrestlers

Soccer Slammers
(Image credit: Soccer Slammers)

After taking down opposition players, journalists and a pack of Romanian wolves during his long career in football, even WWE giants would cower at the sight of Nigel Pearson surging towards them. 

Little wonder, then, that ‘Big Nige’ was one of the first men to be featured in Soccer Slammers, a frankly inspired series of creations on social media, depicting football stars as wrestling action figures. 

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Chris Flanagan
Senior Staff Writer

Chris joined FourFourTwo in 2015 and has reported from more than 20 countries, in places as varied as Ivory Coast and the Arctic Circle. He's interviewed Pele, Zlatan and Santa Claus (it's a long story), as well as covering the World Cup, AFCON and the Clasico. He previously spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, and completed the 92 in 2017.