Wrestlemania question:

[wwefan007]

So i was watching tv when all of a sudden a Pontiac Silverdome commercial came on and it got me thinking will wrestlemania ever come back to thee dome what do you think i mean if wwe ever came back to detroit for wm i think it would be better there then at Joe Louis arena well leave me your thoughts

[helmsley]

personally, i would like to see a wm in another country, canda,uk or estadio azteca in mexico

[Robstar]

WWE are not globally confident enough to take their PPV's very far from the USA. Canada being the only exception of recent times, Britain in the 90's and while they have been quite successful, I think it's a marketing risk WWE don't feel the need to take. I mean, why go out for milk when you have the cow at home, y'know? They know their U.S. based PPV's will sell out and the existence of Pay Per View sales totally does away with the need to take the product, literally, beyond their own shores.

And that goes double for the big enchilada, Wrestlemania. It's not about whether it would sell. There's no question that it would still sell out in certain countries.

I'd say, look for TNA to move into that market first.

[VanHooliganX]

I think WM would go to Canada at a push. Like Toronto. But I doubt WM will be in England or somewhere they visit quite a bit.

I'd love for Summerslam to come back to Wembley. It was WWEs highest ever achieved attendance I think.

[The Brown One]

What Rob said. I'd be happier seeing them be very successful selling out an American arena with great fans rather than another country where people just go because they haven't been to an event before.

[Robstar]

Hell, look at what happened when TNA did a PPV just out of their prime areas? Wasn't it BFG? The crowd was abysmal.

I'd go for any lesser PPV in markets the size of Canada or the U.K. or even Mexico. Maybe Japan?

[THEKEVINBRAND]

The problem is timezones, in order to go live in Europe to coincide an 8pm start time in the USA/Canada, you'd be taping the PPV at 1am over there. It's clearly impossible to air live, and I don't think Vince would want to air his biggest PPV on a tape delay.

[Robstar]

Wasn't Summerslam 92 held in the afternoon in the UK? (have I got the year right?)

With all the accumulative talent from the U.K. rising to the top of the WWE lately, I don't think it's too unlikely that we could see a major event held there again. Plus, they've started filming Raw's and SD's on U.K. tours

[THEKEVINBRAND]

Wasn't Summerslam 92 held in the afternoon in the UK? (have I got the year right?)

With all the accumulative talent from the U.K. rising to the top of the WWE lately, I don't think it's too unlikely that we could see a major event held there again. Plus, they've started filming Raw's and SD's on U.K. tours

Yes at Wembley in London UK with an attendance of 80,355. It was taped on August 29, 1992, and aired August 31, 1992.

[KJ PUNK]

Wasn't Summerslam 92 held in the afternoon in the UK? (have I got the year right?)

With all the accumulative talent from the U.K. rising to the top of the WWE lately, I don't think it's too unlikely that we could see a major event held there again. Plus, they've started filming Raw's and SD's on U.K. tours

Yeah but there would be no way that they would do that with a PPV nowadays. Then you would have had to wait for a newsletter to come out to find the spoilers. Now, we'd have them in a matter of minutes and noone would order the PPV when we already knew the results a day before. It's basically why when SD! is live it has a higher rating that it usually does.

For the OP - Wrestlemania 23 was held in Detroit at Ford Field. Since it took them 20 years to come back to the area, I'd forget about it. The Silverdome might not even be there the next time Detroit gets to host 'Mania.