Eric Bischoff dives deep into the possibility of WrestleMania going to London.
Many international fans are still abuzz about the possibility, one that was first mentioned by John Cena in a promo at the Money In The Bank premium live event on Saturday, July 1.
In the days after the event, Eric Bischoff noted that he could see London getting to host a WrestleMania within the next five years.
On the latest episode of the Strictly Business podcast, Bischoff elaborated on the topic and talked about the logistics of the event.
“I certainly could see it happening, I can’t imagine what the staff, the team over at WWE are thinking in terms of having to produce a WrestleMania overseas. The logistics are tough. You have all the travel involved, you’re working with a lot of vendors you’ve never worked with before. When it happens, it’s going to be a big challenge and of course you have the obvious one right, you want to be in prime time. You want to make sure that the live event is available to the largest sector of your audience, which is the domestic U.S, so they can watch it live and not have to stay up until 2 o’clock in the morning in order to do it. That’s the biggest issue, and again the costs. Everything is more expensive when you do it overseas, the logistics side of that… I wouldn’t want to be on that team, let’s put it that way."
Bischoff went on to recall seeing the exhaustion on the faces of various employees in WWE in the days leading up to past WrestleMania events, talking about how that would be even worse in a international situation.
"I’d go to WrestleMania and I’d be backstage, and they would ask me to do something on camera. But, if you’re backstage the day before or two days before WrestleMania and you look at the eyes of the people that are there to work, whether it’s the production team or the logistics, by the second day they’re like the walking dead. So adding the stress of doing it internationally on top of that, mind boggling to me. But again, there are some seasoned vets there. They’ve been doing it in Saudi Arabia, but it’s not as big in scope as WrestleMania. That’s a different animal.”
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