As we reported earlier here on eWn, Saturday’s WWE Backlash: France pay-per-view event drew the largest arena gate in the history of the company.
During the post-WWE Backlash: France press conference, Triple H commented on the possibility of running more international events.
Additionally, WWE’s Chief Content Officer teased the possibility of running an event in Italy.
You can check out some highlights from the post-show media scrum below:
On the attendance for Backlash: France: “We had huge expectations for being here. You surpassed those greatly. Everybody getting alerts to their phones that the decibel levels were too high and they were risking permanent damage to their hearing. I love to read that and I love to experience that. Quite a night. We had the largest gate of any arena show in WWE history tonight and I think that’s worth repeating. The largest gate in the history of WWE. Man, that is saying something, because we’ve been doing this for a long time. We’ve been doing this around the globe. It’s quite a statement. And I’m blown away by that. Very excited. We broke the all-time record, obviously, for Smackdown, which was just set four weeks ago at Wrestlemania. So in this time we’re very fortunate to be knocking off record after record. 11,628 in the house tonight, so excited. I would expect this to not be the last time we are in France.”
On more international dates: “You see that this is the beginning of a very large global run for us. WWE going out there and taking what we do and taking it to the rest of the world that we haven’t always been frequently going to. You’ll see that in this international run that is up and coming. Three weeks from today, we will be in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for King & Queen of the Ring. Three weeks after that, Glasgow, Scotland for Clash at the Castle. Three weeks after that, Toronto, Canada for Money in the Bank. We’ll take a little journey into the US for Summerslam and then right back to Germany for Bash in Berlin on August 31. So I think you see the commitment now to international markets. As I said, I would not expect this to be the last time in France. From what I heard on this tour of the last few days, Italy was quite crazy. So when we get home I will be looking heavily into Italy. I hear this a lot from people, people hit me up a lot on social media from various international markets, asking ‘how do we get WWE here?’ You get it by doing what France did here. You get it by being loud. You get those events by being intense, by being crazy and just being passionate about WWE. So I would look forward to a lot more international events in the years to come. And one last thing I will say when it comes to amazing fans, great reactions…our friend in London, Mayor Khan, was re-elected tonight, we should talk. As I said before. We should talk.”
