{"id":121264,"date":"2023-11-16T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=121264"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:54:05","slug":"wwe-backlash-coming-to-france-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/11\/16\/wwe-backlash-coming-to-france-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Backlash Coming to France in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">STAMFORD, Conn \u2014 <strong>WWE<\/strong>, part of <strong>TKO Group Holdings<\/strong>, announced that <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><em><strong>WWE Backlash<\/strong> <strong>France<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> will be the first-ever WWE Premium Live Event to be held in France, emanating from the LDLC Arena in Lyon-Decines on Saturday, May 4, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWEBacklash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWEBacklash<\/a> France will be the first-ever WWE Premium Live Event to be held in France, emanating from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LDLC_Arena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LDLC_Arena<\/a> in Lyon-Decines on Saturday, May 4, 2024! \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>Register now for an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWEBacklash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWEBacklash<\/a> combo presale opportunity \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTrYn4qPnR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/qTrYn4qPnR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YERYEQqz5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YERYEQqz5Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1725076238295834662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This announcement comes after <em>Backlash <\/em>2023, being held at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jos\u00e9 Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which became WWE\u2019s highest-grossing and most-viewed <em>Backlash<\/em> in company history. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the premium live event, WWE will be hosting <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> on Friday, May 3, 2024, being the first time a Smackdown event will be broadcasted in France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rather fitting for the WWE and TKO Group Holdings to capitalize on pre-Olympics hype as the country hosts the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad\u00a0starting in mid-July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another reason for the significance of this event is that the LDLC arena in Lyon-Decines, France, is actually not even finished with its construction, with the arena doors being opened sometime in the next few weeks with the likes of mainstream music acts like the <strong>Jonas Brothers<\/strong>, <strong>Sting<\/strong> and <strong>Green Day<\/strong> having concerts and the new state of the art venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the official website of the architectural firm Populous, the same firm that\u2019s heading the new Buffalo Bills stadium, the renovations of the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Allianz Field in Saint Paul, Minn. and many other projects around the world<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, the LDLC Arena will be the largest indoor arena in France outside Paris and one of the most technologically and environmentally advanced in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The news also follows the announcement of Bash In Berlin, which will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, August 31, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAMFORD, Conn \u2014 WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, announced that WWE Backlash France will be the first-ever WWE Premium Live Event to be held in France, emanating from the LDLC Arena in Lyon-Decines on Saturday, May 4, 2024. BREAKING: #WWEBacklash France will be the first-ever WWE Premium Live Event to be held in France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2484,"featured_media":121281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,2192,4,3],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-121264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-wwe-backlash"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}