The WWE will return to Australian shores for the primary time since 2018 in February after the Elimination Chamber occasion was introduced for Perth’s Optus Stadium.
After months of hypothesis, the sports activities leisure behemoth introduced that the 60,000 seat stadium would host the stay occasion on Saturday February 24.
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The final time the WWE got here down underneath was in 2018 when the Tremendous-Present Down took over the MCG with Ronda Rousey gorgeous a packed home earlier than Triple H pinned The Undertaker.
Within the meantime, Aussie Rhea Ripley has turn into one of many sports activities’ greatest names and is predicted to star because the WWE comes again to Australia, whereas Grayson Walker can be a close to certainty to struggle.
Whereas the schedule has not but been launched, it would culminate in not less than one six-man cage match with a number of the promotion’s greatest names set to go to only one month out from WrestleMania 40.
Wrestlers Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods joined WA Premier Roger Cook dinner for the announcement.
“These are set to be the most well liked tickets on the town and followers can pre-register and safe their spot from as we speak,” Cook dinner stated.
“We anticipate the premium stay occasion at Optus Stadium might be a sellout with hundreds of east coast and worldwide followers flocking to Perth, Western Australia to witness this unique present.”
The present is predicted to achieve an viewers of 1 billion individuals worldwide and Kingston, who is among the members of The New Day alongside Woods and Large E, stated the Elimination Chamber may “completely change the trajectory of no matter is happening within the WWE panorama”.
“Two combatants enter and there are 4 pods with the opposite combatants inside them,” Woods added.
“As time passes, a kind of pods will open till all of their combatants are within the ring.
“After which the match formally begins and also you lose by pinfall or submission till there’s one combatant standing and they’re the winner.
“And the rationale that that is so intense is since you are ready for individuals to get into this match.”
The wrestlers concerned are anticipated to have neighborhood activations and meet-and-greets with followers, and Kingston stated they “actually come right into a city and take it over”.
The WWE has lately merged with the UFC, which had an enormous present earlier this 12 months in Perth when Alexander Volkanovski misplaced a controversial bout to Islam Makhachev for the light-weight title.
“Securing this unique WWE whopping blockbuster occasion to Western Australia will put our State on the world stage,” added Premier Cook dinner.
“It’s unique main occasions like these that appeal to individuals to Western Australia, and set us other than some other metropolis or city within the nation or certainly the Asia Pacific.
“The WWE stadium spectacle will drive guests to Western Australia from proper world wide, inject hundreds of thousands into the economic system and showcase our State on the worldwide stage.
“We all know the UFC 284 occasion held in Perth this 12 months was a winner for WA, attracting hundreds of tourists and breaking attendance and income data, and we anticipate WWE might be simply as profitable as we host it for the primary time right here subsequent 12 months.”
Tourism Minister Rita Saffioti, in the meantime, described it as a “large coup” for Western Australia.
“That is an unbelievable achievement, and we’re so excited to have secured this Australian unique,” she stated.