20 WWE Extreme Rules Facts You Didn't Know
How many did you know?
One of the many insults often levelled at fans of pro wrestling is that the scripted, predetermined nature of events somehow renders the entire thing unimportant.
A simple retort is that not everything has to be a competition, or possess some profound, life-altering significance. Some things can simply be enjoyed for what they are.
And in many ways, such parallels can be drawn with the “culturally significant, yet essentially unimportant” field of trivia. A field so “unimportant” that it managed to spawn the 8th best-selling board game of all time. Not bad going at all.
But enough with the trivia on trivia. My somewhat convoluted point is that the two seemingly unrelated topics are quite the match for one another. Just as the intricacies of trivial factoids don’t really matter, neither do the wins and losses of wrestling; it’s all done for show.
So let us indulge our affliction for the absurd, our penchant for the pointless, and combine these two most, well, trivial of pursuits. And with Extreme Rules right around the corner, that seems like as good a backdrop as any against which to stage the combination.
This article runs through 20 pieces of (hopefully) interesting trivia that the Extreme Rules pay-per-view has produced over the years.
20. Home Sweet Home
Extreme Rules 2015 will mark the first time in history that the show has returned to an arena it’s already been to.
The venue in question is of course the All State Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. The epic instalment from 2012 also took place in the Chicago suburb, where Brock Lesnar made his blockbuster return in a losing effort to John Cena.
This time around though, there’ll be no heroic homecoming for the Second City Saint, CM Punk—and you can expect the audience to remind us of that fact.
Other hosts of Extreme Rules include New Orleans, Baltimore, Tampa, St Louis and East Rutherford.