DichEvans
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Post by DichEvans on Sept 26, 2022 15:55:05 GMT -5
WWE just put up huge numbers in western Canada for their current tour. All the gates were about 40-70% higher than regular.
This is the first TV in Edmonton in like a decade and they have only done 2-3 TV's from Calgary and Vancouver in the last 15 years. While they still do Toronto fairly regularly, I don't get why they tour this wrestling hotbed far less than the UK. Vancouver is the closest major city to Seattle, so it's not really hard to include it on most western tours.
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schma
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Post by schma on Sept 29, 2022 10:22:58 GMT -5
I wonder if it's the hassle of crossing the border? That would be a poor reason but how many bands include all of 2-3 Canadian locations, if any in North American tours. Still, yeah it would be nice to see the west get the same love we enjoy here in Ontario.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Sept 29, 2022 13:35:06 GMT -5
Vince probably got spat on by a drunk dude on Granville St. and said f*** no never again we're never coming back
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 29, 2022 14:02:08 GMT -5
Feels like they've been in Canada a ton lately. I'm probably exaggerating but it feels like they've done four or five loops there in the last month or so.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Sept 29, 2022 14:07:37 GMT -5
WWE just put up huge numbers in western Canada for their current tour. All the gates were about 40-70% higher than regular. This is the first TV in Edmonton in like a decade and they have only done 2-3 TV's from Calgary and Vancouver in the last 15 years. While they still do Toronto fairly regularly, I don't get why they tour this wrestling hotbed far less than the UK. Vancouver is the closest major city to Seattle, so it's not really hard to include it on most western tours.Maybe that's part of it, it's still much easier for a Canadian to get to a WWE show more regularly than a Brit. I'm not sure why they don't do TV more often though, the crowds are usually always hot. |
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Post by koreycaskets on Sept 29, 2022 14:08:56 GMT -5
They are here in Kitchener at least once a year (non covid years)
The 80s and 90s though they were in my old town of Newmarket at least 3 or 4 times a year.
This is Ontario Canada
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Sept 29, 2022 14:13:02 GMT -5
At least Canada has things happen that matter. The UK has only had 2 title changes in the last 11 years that I can remember.
AJ Styles winning the WWE Championship in 2017 and Big Show and Kane winning the Tag Team Championships in 2011.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Sept 29, 2022 14:29:55 GMT -5
At least Canada has things happen that matter. The UK has only had 2 title changes in the last 11 years that I can remember. AJ Styles winning the WWE Championship in 2017 and Big Show and Kane winning the Tag Team Championships in 2011. Regal won the IC Title in 2008, he ended the Santino Honkameter reign |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Sept 29, 2022 15:09:38 GMT -5
Feels like they've been in Canada a ton lately. I'm probably exaggerating but it feels like they've done four or five loops there in the last month or so. Tomorrow is the second TV taping in Winnipeg in less then 3 years, after going 16 years without one. Normally Winnipeg got 2 house shows a years, spring and fall. However, it was heavily rumoured at the time of the last TV here in 2020 that WWE cut a 10 year deal with the MTS Centre for exclusivity that guaranteed at least one televised show a year we might be getting more TV to spite AEW rather then WWE really liking Winnipeg. Which, I get, Winnipeg sucks and the MTS Centre is nice but it’s a f***ing nightmare for parking and access. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 29, 2022 16:39:55 GMT -5
Is it because Canadian crowds have too many of their own opinions?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 29, 2022 16:59:32 GMT -5
Last time WWE came to Scuzzbury was the 90s
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 29, 2022 18:17:23 GMT -5
They haven’t been to Calgary in years. They can’t sellout the Saddledome, even if it was fit to host a show anymore and the city tore down the arena they did house shows in.
Haven’t been to my city in probably 12 years or so. They had a show scheduled a couple years ago, the same day as the Super Bowl, that got cancelled due to “routing issues”.
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