Eric Bischoff Discusses Logistical Issues For Potential UK WrestleMania

At the recent WWE Money in the Bank 2023 pay-per-view event, John Cena made a shocking appearance and cut a promo, floating around the idea of WrestleMania coming to London in the future. The idea was met with an overwhelming amount of support from the London crowd.

Reports have indicated that WWE really is considering bringing WrestleMania to London, with recent developments in the business and corporate side of things having made it possibility to explore. Nevertheless, there are plenty of logistics WWE will need to work around to make an overseas WrestleMania really happen

Speaking on a recent episode of Strictly Business, Eric Bischoff highlighted some of the logistical problems that he foresees. Emphasizing the issues with time difference, he said,

“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. I mean, the logistics are tough. First of all, you have all the travel involved. You’re working with a lot of vendors you’ve never worked with before. It’s going to be a challenge. 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, whatever day of the week — assuming it’s going to be a Friday night or a Saturday night or Sunday perhaps. You want to make sure that the live event is available to the largest sector of your audience — which is the domestic US — to buy so they can watch it live and not have to stay up until 2 o’clock in the morning in order to do it. So that’s the biggest issue. And again, even the costs. Everything is more expensive when you do it overseas. It’s — the logistics side of that is man… I wouldn’t want to be on that team. Let’s put it that way.”

As the opportunity arose, Bischoff also heaped praise on the one and the only John Cena.

“I’ve always had a massive amount of respect for John Cena. Massive. Not only when I worked with him, and I did a couple things in the ring with him obviously and had some fun. But just watching him, especially backstage. And and knowing what his schedule was like. Now this is back when it’s 300 days a year on the road. And oh, by the way, when you get days off, you’re doing Make-A-Wish. You’re doing this; you’re doing that. I mean, John Cena worked so freaking hard for so long. Um, nothing but massive respect for John Cena.”

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