Report: WWE Gauging Interest For Next Overseas PLE
Company looking to take their premium live events back Down Under in future.
WWE could be looking at heading back Down Under for a premium live event in the future.
Fightful Select reports that WWE has spoken with people in Australia to "gauge interest" in holding a PLE there. However, that is very preliminary, as Fightful notes that typically when info is leaked that a destination could host a PLE, it's often to drum up interest in the locale well before it's come to fruition.
If this becomes reality, it would be WWE's first PLE in Australia since its first -- and only -- premium live event there, Super Show-Down in October 2018. That event was highlighted by The Shield defeating Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre, and Triple H toppling the Undertaker. Aussies Buddy Murphy and the IIconics also won matches at Super Show-Down, but none of them are currently on WWE's roster.
However, the company currently boasts SmackDown Women's Champion Rhea Ripley, Bronson Reed and former NXT Women's Champion Indi Hartwell.
If WWE moves forward with a PLE in Australia, it would continue a recent trend of holding premium live events outside the continental United States, with Clash at the Castle in Cardiff, Wales last year, Elimination Chamber in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in February, and Backlash in San Juan, Puerto Rico (an American territory) this past weekend all being heralded as success stories for the company.
Of course, there is Money in the Bank taking place in July at London's O2 Arena, and there also are WWE's two annual bought shows in Saudi Arabia, including Night of Champions later this month.