{"id":20262,"date":"2018-06-16T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2018-06-16T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T15:29:31","slug":"wwe-announces-mega-show-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/06\/16\/wwe-announces-mega-show-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announces Mega Show in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE is coming back to Australia.\u00a0The <strong>Herald Sun<\/strong> based out of Melbourne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/wwe-ceo-vince-mcmahon-announces-super-showdown-live-at-the-mcg-in-october\/video\/d601c868b5b39120c0bbb01f4d7dd627\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the news early this morning<\/a> (in the US), releasing a brief video of Vince McMahon himself announcing the event: <em><strong>WWE Super Show-Down<\/strong><\/em> on Saturday, October 6th, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. McMahon said the event will be broadcast, making it the first time WWE has had a live broadcast emanate from Down Under, as every other shown they have performed there has either been an untelevised house show, or released on DVD afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first major show WWE has run in Australia since <em><strong>Global Warning<\/strong><\/em> in 2002, where the company drew over 56,000, although WWE has done house show tours most every year since then. This event could be one of the largest in WWE history, as the MCG can hold over 100,000 in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Triple H announces Australia&#039;s WWE Super Show-Down on Oct. 6\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6HubaQU7OWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So far <strong>John Cena, Roman Reigns, Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, Daniel Bryan, The New Day, Sasha Banks, Braun Strowman, Big Show<\/strong>, and <strong>Kurt Angle<\/strong> have been announced for making appearances, as well as a <strong>Triple H<\/strong> vs. <strong>The Undertaker<\/strong> match, which McMahon said would be for the \u201cfinal time.\u201d\u00a0Rousey\u2019s appearance is no coincidence, as in 2015 she headlined a UFC PPV in Melbourne, drawing over 56,000.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ronda Rousey intends to get rowdy at Australia&#039;s WWE Super Show-Down\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cA2Hb1w7Ntw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This show is happening just two weeks before <em><strong>TLC &#8217;18<\/strong> <\/em>in Boston, so it is not taking the place of the October PPV. The timing of this is interesting, and New Japan Pro Wrestling ran its first tour of Australia in February, and is reportedly looking to return in November or December of this year. Local promotion <strong>Melbourne City Wrestling<\/strong> has already announced a show the night before in their usual venue called <strong>MCW Horizons<\/strong>, piggybacking off of the wrestling hype that will no doubt be prevalent that weekend.<\/p>\n<p>With WWE, NJPW, and PROGRESS all making trips to Australia this year, as well as the growth of local Aussie promotions like MCW, it\u2019s a great time to be a wrestling fan in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>More to come soon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AJ Styles says WWE Super Show-Down will be too sweet in Australia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYjxysN0YSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE is coming back to Australia.\u00a0The Herald Sun based out of Melbourne broke the news early this morning (in the US), releasing a brief video of Vince McMahon himself announcing the event: WWE Super Show-Down on Saturday, October 6th, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. McMahon said the event will be broadcast, making it the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2483,"featured_media":20273,"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":[2,3],"tags":[377,2854,47],"class_list":["post-20262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-australia","tag-super-showdown","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262","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\/2483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}