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Post by Jindrak Mark on Apr 13, 2022 10:09:26 GMT -5
Reportedly nearly 60,000 people pre-registered for tickets within the first 24 hours of the show being announced. Not really surprising. They likely could have ran a major stadium PPV in England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland at any point over the last 20 years and did these kind of numbers so it's pretty baffling that they waited so long.
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Post by welshpenguin on Apr 13, 2022 10:15:04 GMT -5
I demand we have a cgi dragon fighting with a cgi sheep Like the RKBro snakes 😀
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Post by welshpenguin on Apr 13, 2022 10:22:01 GMT -5
I like how the official announcement on the wwe website is bilingual in Welsh & English, fair play.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 13, 2022 10:46:35 GMT -5
Reportedly nearly 60,000 people pre-registered for tickets within the first 24 hours of the show being announced. Not really surprising. They likely could have ran a major stadium PPV in England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland at any point over the last 20 years and did these kind of numbers so it's pretty baffling that they waited so long. Same. I’d make the bold claim that if it were, say, 5-7 years ago, it’d have been sold out completely not even 12 hours. That’s not to say that isn’t an achievement, though.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Apr 13, 2022 10:56:37 GMT -5
Not really surprising. They likely could have ran a major stadium PPV in England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland at any point over the last 20 years and did these kind of numbers so it's pretty baffling that they waited so long. Same. I’d make the bold claim that if it were, say, 5-7 years ago, it’d have been sold out completely not even 12 hours. That’s not to say that isn’t an achievement, though. Yeah, I'd agree. If they can sell 60,000 in 24 hours simply based on the WWE name and with Roman/Seth/Drew/Becky/Ronda likely to be the top stars then imagine a few years ago when they had Cena/Batista/HHH/HBK/Undertaker/Punk/Bryan. They could have sold out any stadium in the UK. They probably still can now. If they want to make this a regular thing though it has to be treated as important. It can't be like the UK PPVs from 1997-03 that were basically non-canon and barely mentioned to US viewers. It has to be like the Saudi shows and the Australian one a couple years back were it's treated like an actual real PPV for the company and built up on Raw and Smackdown.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 13, 2022 10:59:07 GMT -5
Same. I’d make the bold claim that if it were, say, 5-7 years ago, it’d have been sold out completely not even 12 hours. That’s not to say that isn’t an achievement, though. Yeah, I'd agree. If they can sell 60,000 in 24 hours simply based on the WWE name and with Roman/Seth/Drew/Becky/Ronda likely to be the top stars then imagine a few years ago when they had Cena/Batista/HHH/HBK/Undertaker/Punk/Bryan. They could have sold out any stadium in the UK. They probably still can now. If they want to make this a regular thing though it has to be treated as important. It can't be like the UK PPVs from 1997-03 that were basically non-canon and barely mentioned to US viewers. It has to be like the Saudi shows and the Australian one a couple years back were it's treated like an actual real PPV for the company and built up on Raw and Smackdown. I have no doubt they will but yeah, they can't have this much interest and go "We're bringing back Insurrextion, folks!"
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Post by oxbaker on Apr 13, 2022 11:00:41 GMT -5
When WWE announces they’ve booked a London taxicab and phone booth as stage props, they’ll have to add a second night.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 14, 2022 8:51:14 GMT -5
Same. I’d make the bold claim that if it were, say, 5-7 years ago, it’d have been sold out completely not even 12 hours. That’s not to say that isn’t an achievement, though. Yeah, I'd agree. If they can sell 60,000 in 24 hours simply based on the WWE name and with Roman/Seth/Drew/Becky/Ronda likely to be the top stars then imagine a few years ago when they had Cena/Batista/HHH/HBK/Undertaker/Punk/Bryan. They could have sold out any stadium in the UK. They probably still can now. If they want to make this a regular thing though it has to be treated as important. It can't be like the UK PPVs from 1997-03 that were basically non-canon and barely mentioned to US viewers. It has to be like the Saudi shows and the Australian one a couple years back were it's treated like an actual real PPV for the company and built up on Raw and Smackdown. A few years back they noticed that UK fans have realised nothing ever happens on UK TV takings and started throwing title changes in there, so I think this will be a show worth watching storyline wise at least. And much as I rag on WWE, most of their matches are still usually good. This show should be a slam dunk with a hot crowd, even for a product as cold and nonsensical as WWE is now
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Post by msc on Apr 14, 2022 12:25:26 GMT -5
It being in Wales -one off HOF induction for Adrian Street who can't travel far now on health grounds? Just throwing that idea out there.
If they noticed they had a Welsh wrestler a few months ago I'd expect a huge attempt to get Tegan Nox back, but I don't think the WWE note the difference between Welsh/Scottish/N Irish/Republic of Ireland so it'll be Sheamus and Drew.
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 14, 2022 14:37:04 GMT -5
They should pull a British Bulldog and use this as an opportunity to put some British talent over big.
We’ll see if they do.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2022 17:58:58 GMT -5
Yep apparently Drew/Reigns for the belt is scheduled at this ppv. Wow.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 17, 2022 1:10:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd agree. If they can sell 60,000 in 24 hours simply based on the WWE name and with Roman/Seth/Drew/Becky/Ronda likely to be the top stars then imagine a few years ago when they had Cena/Batista/HHH/HBK/Undertaker/Punk/Bryan. They could have sold out any stadium in the UK. They probably still can now. If they want to make this a regular thing though it has to be treated as important. It can't be like the UK PPVs from 1997-03 that were basically non-canon and barely mentioned to US viewers. It has to be like the Saudi shows and the Australian one a couple years back were it's treated like an actual real PPV for the company and built up on Raw and Smackdown. I have no doubt they will but yeah, they can't have this much interest and go "We're bringing back Insurrextion, folks!" It's kind of amusing how the 2000s UK PPVs seemed to want to be exclusive content that the UK fans earned by supporting WWE's PPVs when they aired in the middle of the night. But in reality, that just amounted to the shows not really mattering much aside from the C-level European title change that would just be reversed on Monday. because the US had to wait for a DVD release if they cared that much.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 21, 2022 8:01:38 GMT -5
So a lot happened today in the UK revolving around the leadership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wrestling in relation to this show and hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy, everyone involved in the entire incident looked like such goobers.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 21, 2022 9:11:12 GMT -5
So a lot happened today in the UK revolving around the leadership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wrestling in relation to this show and hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy, everyone involved in the entire incident looked like such goobers. What happened?
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 21, 2022 9:34:56 GMT -5
So a lot happened today in the UK revolving around the leadership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wrestling in relation to this show and hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy, everyone involved in the entire incident looked like such goobers. What happened? To put a long story short, around the time of Speaking Out happening here, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wrestling was formed, which was a cross party coalition group that (in theory) was supposed to look into the "systematic problems in pro wrestling" and write a report on it. They did the usual things of putting out a report, having representatives show up to take pictures and then...nothing. No governmental action, no policies that should be conducted, nothing happened and things went back to normal with very few doing something. So then the leader of said group, Alex Davies Jones, writes a whole article in The Times about how great it is that WWE is coming to Cardiff and how it'll help the scene when, in fact, a lot of NXT UK still has abusers working in it, the very thing they were looking to crack down on with a tiny section on how they've "raised concerns" without going into specifics and makes the whole thing seem like a waste of time. Oh, and she also went into British Parliament and wasted everyone's time asking a fluff WWE question and got the expected reaction. Like, this seems to have been the outcome of all of it and, rightfully, annoyed a lot of people because of the basic inaction of the entire thing.
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Apr 21, 2022 10:08:42 GMT -5
Yep apparently Drew/Reigns for the belt is scheduled at this ppv. Wow. Not so much a wow when it is almost casual knowledge Roman isn't dropping the title until WM against The Rock. So really it's more Roman vs Drew in a 'Guess how drew loses' match
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Apr 21, 2022 10:10:09 GMT -5
They should pull a British Bulldog and use this as an opportunity to put some British talent over big. We’ll see if they do. Dunne/Butch will be in the opening bout losing a 2-minute match to *Picks name out of hat* Bobby Roode
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 21, 2022 11:01:54 GMT -5
To put a long story short, around the time of Speaking Out happening here, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wrestling was formed, which was a cross party coalition group that (in theory) was supposed to look into the "systematic problems in pro wrestling" and write a report on it. They did the usual things of putting out a report, having representatives show up to take pictures and then...nothing. No governmental action, no policies that should be conducted, nothing happened and things went back to normal with very few doing something. So then the leader of said group, Alex Davies Jones, writes a whole article in The Times about how great it is that WWE is coming to Cardiff and how it'll help the scene when, in fact, a lot of NXT UK still has abusers working in it, the very thing they were looking to crack down on with a tiny section on how they've "raised concerns" without going into specifics and makes the whole thing seem like a waste of time. Oh, and she also went into British Parliament and wasted everyone's time asking a fluff WWE question and got the expected reaction. Like, this seems to have been the outcome of all of it and, rightfully, annoyed a lot of people because of the basic inaction of the entire thing. Is that true? I thought they were being slow but the law was being changed to offer better safeguarding. Classing training as a sport and the shows as art so there's more required of trainers. Has all that been dropped?
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Post by Herman The Tosser on Apr 21, 2022 11:06:31 GMT -5
It being in Wales -one off HOF induction for Adrian Street who can't travel far now on health grounds? Just throwing that idea out there. If they noticed they had a Welsh wrestler a few months ago I'd expect a huge attempt to get Tegan Nox back, but I don't think the WWE note the difference between Welsh/Scottish/N Irish/Republic of Ireland so it'll be Sheamus and Drew. What's Mason Ryan up to these days?
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Post by cornettesracket on Apr 21, 2022 11:23:13 GMT -5
It being in Wales -one off HOF induction for Adrian Street who can't travel far now on health grounds? Just throwing that idea out there. If they noticed they had a Welsh wrestler a few months ago I'd expect a huge attempt to get Tegan Nox back, but I don't think the WWE note the difference between Welsh/Scottish/N Irish/Republic of Ireland so it'll be Sheamus and Drew. Well they should because the have wrestlers from each of those countries working for them. You have piper Niven, drew, Kay lee Rae, Nikki Cross who are Scottish. Sheamus, Finn, and Becky who are from the Republic of Ireland(I still love that three wrestlers from my country are on WWE TV). Fit Finley who’s from the north. Wales they used to have Tegan nox but they disengaged their brains on that one. Those are the main roster wrestlers I can think of. I know NXT UK has irish, Scottish, English, welsh talent all over the shop.
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