leeds Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 I came across this. Could this just be to hype up the on sale Mania 30 tickets or an attempt to make UK fans by tickets for May tour or a legit tease for a Mania/UK PPV.  Make up your own minds, link below  http://rajah.com/node/37267 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2013 More chance of them running it from my back garden. Me and Cena for the belt next to the trampoline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Unless they book Hogan, Ian won't even bother with the fucking curtains. What a waste that'd be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Never going to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP RULZ Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Surely not this again  Wrestlemania WILL NEVER be in England or anyone where outside of the US/Canada markets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted November 16, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2013 Sounds like the dumb shit you'd read on Teletext. Â The city for WM 31 has already been agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeds Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 But a UK PPV is possible. Not Mania but another PPV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted November 17, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 17, 2013 Is it? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicsGuy Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I came across this. Could this just be to hype up the on sale Mania 30 tickets or an attempt to make UK fans by tickets for May tour or a legit tease for a Mania/UK PPV. Make up your own minds, link below  http://rajah.com/node/37267  London hasn't bid for it. Cities have to actually approach WWE and bid for it these days. Mania is worth a lot of money to the local economy wherever it is held, and has to also offer something to WWE too (i.e. tax breaks on the revenue etc).  WWE have already got locations for WM31 & WM32 sewn up by the way, by all accounts. They're just not announcing them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 17, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 17, 2013 But a UK PPV is possible. Not Mania but another PPV Â Possible but fucking stupid. To hold it at a sensible time over here for people to actually attend and/or not break the venues curfew, they'd ever have to air it live in the States on the Sunday afternoon and risk losing buys to the football fans that would rather watch their team play than watch the wrestling, or air it on a delay where some people will read the spoilers and decide whether to buy it or not, which would result in a drop off compared to people who buy it to watch live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve_grand Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Possible but fucking stupid. To hold it at a sensible time over here for people to actually attend and/or not break the venues curfew, they'd ever have to air it live in the States on the Sunday afternoon and risk losing buys to the football fans that would rather watch their team play than watch the wrestling, or air it on a delay where some people will read the spoilers and decide whether to buy it or not, which would result in a drop off compared to people who buy it to watch live. Â The Observer actually has a longish news item this week about there being some consideration of doing Summerslam in London next year. Meltzer argues it doesn't make sense to move from LA for summerslam. However he notes that PPV buy rates are so low if they can find the right main event and middle tier PPV event it is entirely conceivable they could make up the PPV reduction because of tape delay with the gate at Wembley or even the O2 priced right. Â Incidentally it seems part of the reason WWE are thinking about it again is to drive the greatest possible value out of the UK TV deal renewal at the end of 2014 and you can see why packing a big stadium and doing media around that might help. Not sure whether BT would be interested at all but the theory presumably is extract maximum value from a weakened Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Would Over The Limit really draw enough to fill Wembley, or megabucks prices at the O2 though? WWE wouldn't want to blow a massive attraction match on a pre-taped or odd-timed ppv so it'd only be a B-level card. Bar massive creative attention and a 92-esque media campaign, Barrett and Regal mean nothing. Even if I spend weeks cutting out a wallchart from The Daily Star, those two aren't Davey Boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 The only way it might work would be if they ran a PPV other than Mania and somehow fill Wembley Stadium. They would then need to offset any lost revenue from lost buys by a huge gate (perhaps having a version of Axxess and other PPV week activities could help- try and get people from all over Europe). It really depends on how much their buyrate would be effected and what kind of gate they would get. This will never happen with Mania, even if it worked with another PPV for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve_grand Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 So Meltzer reported Summerslam at $5.5m PPV & $1m gate. UFC has done a $2m gate in the O2 according to him but notes the extra costs of the overseas element. Other factors he mentioned are the TV deal and the TV network (if the plan holds to show non-WM PPVs would be shown free to subscribers so the time difference becomes less relevant revenue wise). Meltzer said he was surprised they were talking about it because of Vince McMahon's negative on the 1992 PPV rate although Meltzer's argument is that was simply the post Hogan inevitability. His actual report said "only it [/summerslam 2014] was mentioned on the tour to some people with major business connections in Europe as something being considered." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 It would make no business sense because the place is way too small for a big WWE event, but from a selfish point of view I'd love to see a re-booted King Of The Ring tournament (with the winner getting to choose between a WWE or World Title shot at Summerslam) held inside the Royal Albert Hall. Â Most PPV venues look pretty much the same these days, except of course for the huge outdoor Wrestlemania venues. Even MSG looks pretty average now they've done away with the cool entrance that used to be opposite the hard cam. The Albert Hall is such a beautiful venue and it would make a real change from generic corporate-sponsored US arenas. Â Never gonna happen, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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