Stephanie McMahon says WWE needs to bring another stadium show back to Australia.
McMahon was speaking at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit recently and mentioned WWE's new exclusive partnership with Foxtel in Australia. She appeared to indicate that bringing a stadium show to Australia may be part of the deal.
You look at our new deal in Australia with Foxtel, where we need to bring a stadium event to Australia as well and how are we looking at that in terms of our international Premium Live Events? How does that work in terms of our domestic strategy?… How are we gonna be able to maximize our opportunities there?
WWE presented Super Show-Down from the Melbourne Cricket Grounds in Melbourne, Australia on October 26, 2018. The event featured Australian wrestlers The Iiconics (Peyton Royce & Billie Kay aka Cassie Lee & Jessie McKay) defeating Asuka & Naomi as well as Buddy Murphy winning the WWE Cruiserweight Championship from Cedric Alexander.
Stephanie also spoke about WWE's "global localization" plan regarding opening up more Performance Centers around the world.
In addition to that, international is the focus for us, as we have discussed in the past but now we really have the opportunity to create what we call ‘global localization’ or ‘glocal’ where we can create local Performance Centers with local talent, replicate the lines of business that we have here in WWE and do it on a much smaller scale but ultimately, hopefully that’ll ladder up into the bigger product and potentially then creating a World Cup-type scenario which would be fun and exciting. It also then of course is an opportunity for talent to rotate throughout and we can have local stars that can ultimately come up to the main roster of WWE
H/T to Post Wrestling for the above transcriptions.
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