{"id":15014,"date":"2018-03-04T00:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2018-03-04T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:09:05","slug":"global-warning-ii-wwe-expected-to-announce-australian-ppv-event-for-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/04\/global-warning-ii-wwe-expected-to-announce-australian-ppv-event-for-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warning II: WWE Expected to Announce Australia PPV Event For October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First rumored in December 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/wwe-wrestling-blockbuster-set-for-mcg-after-grand-final\/news-story\/62aeca18da116831b640dd9bf5729fea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The<em> Sunday Herald Sun\u00a0<\/em>can now confirm that <strong>WWE<\/strong> will in fact be heading to the Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/a>\u00a0in Victoria, Australia, for an upcoming PPV event in October, which is expected to be announced as part of the\u00a0<em><strong>Wrestlemania 34<\/strong><\/em> broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>While currently unnamed, speculation is that WWE would resurrect the Global Warning moniker they used when touring Melbourne in 2002. At the time, this was WWE&#8217;s first event in Australia since the 1980s and was headlined by a huge triple threat draw of <strong>The Rock<\/strong> vs <strong>Triple H<\/strong> vs <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong>. The event was held at\u00a0Etihad Stadium and drew a reported crowd of over 56,000 people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ronda Rousey could be coming to Melbourne with Dwayne The Rock Johnson in an event promoters hope will bring another 100,000 fans to the week after the AFL Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>Huge news came out a few months ago that WWE is planning on bringing back the WWE Global Warning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWnSoKD9h9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jWnSoKD9h9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juanito\u2019s Wrestling Vlog &amp; MORE (@juanitosvlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juanitosvlog\/status\/967073397850112001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the report however, this time around, WWE is looking to almost double that attendance number and have chosen the Melbourne Cricket Ground as the venue because it has the capacity of over 100,000 and is the tenth largest sporting venue in the world. And unlike 2015&#8217;s <em><strong>Beast in the East<\/strong><\/em>, which was just a network special, WWE is planning for the big Australia event to be a PPV. This would make Australia only the fourth country outside of the U.S. (the other three being Canada, Puerto Rico, and England) to host a PPV and the first country not located in the Americas to host one since Newcastle, England hosted <em><strong>Insurrextion<\/strong><\/em> in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>WWE is no stranger to touring Australia and has done so every year since Global Warning in 2002. The company has even had some years where they have done multiple tours of Australia including most recently in 2016 when both WWE Live and NXT Live embarked on separate excursions to the continent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On a tour of the Melbourne Cricket Ground today &#8211; quite a stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MCG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SKTWVHzAlH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SKTWVHzAlH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Sweeney (@SweeneysTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SweeneysTweets\/status\/968707991406022662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Normally, these tours have taken place in the summer but the Melbourne Cricket Ground will be quite busy during that time as it is the premier site of the Australian Football League and will be hosting 45 games for the league from March to September. The Grand Final, the equivalent of the National Football League&#8217;s Super Bowl, is scheduled for September 29. WWE&#8217;s PPV is expected to take place that following weekend, October 6-7.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, <em><strong>TLC<\/strong><\/em> is scheduled for October 21 in Boston but at this time it is unknown if Melbourne Cricket Ground will be hosting that particular PPV or one entirely different.<\/p>\n<p>With attendance at both <em><strong>Wrestlemania 32<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Wrestlemania III<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/whatculture.com\/wwe\/did-wwe-really-have-over-100000-fans-at-wrestlemania-32\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still highly disputed between what WWE claims and what actual gate numbers have revealed<\/a>, if the company does manage to sell-out this 100,024 seat venue, it very well likely will be WWE&#8217;s largest crowd of all-time. Of course in order to do this, Global Warning II or whatever name the PPV ends up being given, will have to be much more than your standard fare WWE show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perth, it\u2019s happening! TMDK vs. The Bullet Club inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpwglobal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@njpwglobal<\/a> ring!<\/p>\n<p>Time to find out who really is the best faction on the planet&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4j5b2UNfZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4j5b2UNfZQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WORLD-BEATER (@DamianSlater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamianSlater\/status\/961917624761253888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to likely needing to feature the NXT\/UK roster, if only to get the <strong>Iconic Duo<\/strong> of <strong>Billie Kay<\/strong> and <strong>Peyton Royce<\/strong>, and Australian tag team <strong>TM-61<\/strong> (fka TMDK &#8211; The Mighty Don&#8217;t Kneel) on the card. The duo of <strong>Nick Miller<\/strong> and <strong>Shane Thorne<\/strong> are both Australian natives and their tag team originated in Perth, Australia at the <strong>Explosive Pro Wrestling<\/strong> promotion. Including Miller and Thorne, TMDK began as a stable which included fellow Australian wrestlers, <strong>Elliot Sexton<\/strong>, <strong>Marcius Pitt<\/strong>, <strong>Damien Slater<\/strong> and <strong>Slex<\/strong>. The foursome continue to wrestle under the TMDK name and were featured as part of <strong>NJPW&#8217;s Fallout Down Under Tour<\/strong> in which the group took on <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong>. While WWE does not tend to bring in outside stars, especially for PPV events, a one-night only TMDK advertised reunion would not be a bad way to help with that draw.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, WWE will need a lot more than Australian talent to fill 100,000 seats and they&#8217;ll most certainly look to some of their own big names to do so. The\u00a0<em>Sunday Herald Sun\u00a0<\/em>specifically named <strong>John Cena<\/strong>, <strong>Rey Mysterio<\/strong>, and the <strong>Undertaker<\/strong> as guys WWE will likely target for the event. Others such as <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong> and the Rock, depending on their respective touring and filming commitments, could be other big names WWE looks to in order to fill the seats. And then there&#8217;s always the return talk of <strong>CM Punk<\/strong>, who could almost fill a 100,000 seat arena of his own, if he were to make his return to pro wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhenomenalOmega\/status\/969898757662781441<\/p>\n<p>To put it into context, only five of WWE&#8217;s top-21 listed attendances belong to non-Wrestlemania events, and of those five none have surpassed the 65,000 mark. This most likely means that if WWE wants their first real 100,000 seater, they are going to need to pull out all the stops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First rumored in December 2017,\u00a0The Sunday Herald Sun\u00a0can now confirm that WWE will in fact be heading to the Melbourne Cricket Ground\u00a0in Victoria, Australia, for an upcoming PPV event in October, which is expected to be announced as part of the\u00a0Wrestlemania 34 broadcast. While currently unnamed, speculation is that WWE would resurrect the Global Warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":15017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[2,13,4,3],"tags":[377,140,2273,165,2271,1931,1547,886,1932,550,2067,2272,47],"class_list":["post-15014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-australia","tag-cm-punk","tag-global-warning","tag-john-cena","tag-melbourne-cricket-ground","tag-nick-miller","tag-ppv","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-shane-thorne","tag-the-rock","tag-tm-61","tag-tmdk","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014","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\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}