Why WWE Will Use Wembley Stadium In 2020

Triple H's rationale parrots the company's own for the last quarter century. Pay-per-view, as they saw it, was a format not really to be messed with. Certainly not for a show that apparently mattered such as one-hit wonders Fatal 4 Way or Breaking Point or Great Balls Of Fire. Definitely not for a SummerSlam again. And categorically never for a WrestleMania, the one UK fans campaigned fervently for with the promise of the 80,000+ attendance WWE wouldn't have to artificially inflate.

It started to feel futile campaigning for the concept until WWE cannibalised it with the advent of the Network in 2014. Only then did the possibility become a visible reality. A year on from its launch, 'The Game' brought his beloved NXT across the pond for a house show tour culminating in a white hot TakeOver: London show. It mirrored much of WWE's 1992 excursion but on a micro scale - the interest was gauged and accounted for before the group went big with a blockbuster payoff.

Crucially, the show kicked off in the evening in the UK, meaning American viewers wishing to watch live had to be at their screens at a different time of day, or avoid spoilers until watching it at their evening leisure. It's a reality millions of fans of World Wrestling Entertainment have coped with their entire lives, but not one the company are accustomed to forcing American fans into. The Saudi Arabia deal's commencement in 2018 provided the same problem, but billions of dollars did away with pithy concerns. As in this case they should have - actual start times haven't ever mattered less. What could possibly be changing WWE's mind ahead of a vital 2020?

For those not already utterly enraged with having to click three times, permission granted to now be incensed that your writer almost made it to the fourth page without mentioning AEW.

Because it's AEW.

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