The 2023 WWE Backlash pay-per-view event takes place on Saturday, May 6, at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, marking the first WWE event held in Puerto Rico since New Year’s Revolution in January 2005, and the second event overall.
During the post-WrestleMania 39 media scrum, Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque addressed WWE’s decision to organize Backlash in Puerto Rico. He said,
“We want to go everywhere, right? So you know, we have amazing fans everywhere. And I think Puerto Rico is certainly no different. We ant to go everywhere where there’s a passionate fanbase for us to go to. Every corner of the globe, we want to go there, we want to get in front of those people, we want to perform for them. We want them to go crazy. I can tell you out there right now, if you’re a part of the world that has a great fanbase in, you’re gonna be louder than everybody else, we’re gonna go there and we’re going to deliver for you. It’s the passion of what we do.”
“So to me, Puerto Rico’s been something we’ve been talking about for a while. Have delayed a few times for other reasons, but now’s the right time to do it. And you know, having [Bad] Bunny come along with us for the right and want to be a part of it, it just makes it that much sweeter for us. So exciting time, you know, and it’s like us going to Wales. It’s like us coming up going to London. We’re going to go around the globe, you know. WWE — as you saw this weekend, we had watch parties all over the world. Everywhere, at all hours for them of the day and night. And we showed those watch parties on TV. It just shows you the strength of the brand. It’s everywhere. It’s news everywhere. It’s big everywhere. And we’re gonna go where everybody is, and we’re going to deliver for them.”
