Scott D'Amore wants to bring Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling to the Maple Leaf Gardens.
The Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto is considered to be one of the most historic and beloved venues in all of professional wrestling. Since 1930, the venue has hosted shows from WWE, Ring Of Honor, Prime Time Wrestling, and of course, the recently revived Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling.
On the latest edition of Talk is Jericho, Scott D'Amore revealed that he's aiming to bring Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling back to the Maple Leaf Gardens in 2025, even if it isn't in the original venue anymore.
“I don’t think I’ve said this publicly, one of the things about re-launching this brand, we want to be back in Maple Leaf Gardens. Maple Leaf Gardens, for those that don’t know, doesn’t exist as a 17,000 seat arena anymore, but the structure is still there. The building is still there, the facade is the same. The marquee is there, it says Maple Leaf Gardens. The main floor is like a grocery store, you can still see the center where the ring used to go. One of the things they have there is an ice rink, they have a 3,000 seat ice rink. I think it’s apropo that 2025, Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling makes its return to the building that it’s most synonymous with and what, to me, after Madison Square Garden is probably the second most iconic wrestling building in history. It’s the one building that, if you look at it historically, every company came into Maple Leaf Gardens. The AWA guys, you’d see the NWA guys, you see the WWF guys all come in until WWE bought it in 1984. It was the one place where everybody came in. Multiple champions, world champion versus world champion matches. It was a cool meeting place. That’s one of our things. We’re gonna get content out there, we’re gonna run some more shows after these two, but we’re gonna run these two, decompress, take a look at what we do right and what we need to tackle differently and then plan for 2025. That’s our game plan to get out there and see what we can do.”
Elsewhere in the interview, D'Amore chatted about starting talks between WWE and TNA. Learn more about those comments by clicking here.
Don Callis was recently announced as commentator for D'Amore's Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling. Learn more about the announcement by clicking here.
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