WWE
WWE is heading to London, England for its first main occasion in 20 years. WWE Money within the Bank will happen on the O2 Arena on Saturday, July 1, marking the primary time WWE has aired a premium stay occasion or pay-per-view within the nation since 2003.
WWE has not held an occasion of this scale in England since 2003’s “Insurrextion” PPV in Newcastle. Insurrextion was headlined by Triple H vs. Kevin Nash (with Shawn Michaels) for the vacant world heavyweight championship. All three superstars have since retired from in-ring performing with Triple H and Michaels being promoted to chief content material officer and senior vice chairman of expertise improvement artistic, respectively.
The Money within the Bank occasion usually contains a males’s and girls’s Money within the Bank ladder match. The matches characteristic a number of superstars competing to retrieve a briefcase hanging over the middle of the ring. The briefcase holder is rewarded with a championship match at a time and site of their selecting over the following yr.
WWE’s most up-to-date go to to the United Kingdom was for September’s Clash on the Castle in Cardiff, Wales. It was the primary U.Ok. stadium present since 1992’s SummerSlam headlined by The British Bulldog vs. Bret Hart and that includes the likes of “Macho Man” Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior.