What was with the locations for WWF PPVs in 2000?

[Mike the Executioner]

They were giving the most random cities a pay-per-view that year. Hartford, Louisville, Albany, and Birmingham all hosted one.

SummerSlam in Raleigh, North Carolina.

There were definitely big cities that got a pay-per-view like New York (Royal Rumble) and Philadelphia (Unforgiven), but it seems like most of them were picked out of a hat. Imagine them going to Kentucky or Alabama for a pay-per-view these days.

 

[Paper Boi]

all that tells me is that they were more popular back then and could go literally anywhere and draw.


also that they have to go to the same 6-8 smark cities a year for PPVs to even get a decent reaction from the live crowds in recent years.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

2000 is one of their best years, if not their best year PPV quality wise every show was a classic minus KOTR

 

[OmegaK2099]

2000 is one of their best years, if not their best year PPV quality wise every show was a classic minus KOTR

In hindsight, Even that one wasn't that bad

 

[Ill-Yaz]

Yes a thread about old school wrestling. That's what I like to see

And ofcourse KOTR was the first pay per view, my nikka H³ lost the world title without getting pinned!

 

[Rell Lauren]

It says that they could go anywhere and sell out. They can't do that now. The perception of wrestling has changed a lot since then.

 

[mannyrs13]

Was good to let those fans experience a wwe ppv in their hometown. Not everyone can live in a major city so those fans were prolly really excited to have a ppv be there.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Must have been why them crowds were so hot back then

 

[RammerJammer]

Looking back on the network, crowds even in New Hampshire used to be hot, now the only hot crowds are NY, Philly, Toronto, LA, Seattle, Chicago, and wherever the post-WM shows are.

They went to Lafayette, LA two years ago and it was the worst crowd I've ever heard.

 

[Metal Face]

Because fans were everywhere

now they gotta hit up super smarky cities just to sell out

 

[BlackAchilles]

Raleigh's a pretty big metro now w/a modern arena; Louisville and Birmingham arent exactly small towns, Hartford isnt so big but they have a decent size arena but if Providence and Manchester NH can host PPVs no reason Hartford can't

Albany is pretty random tho not sure how they chose that one

 

[Reality Check]

Raleigh's a pretty big metro now w/a modern arena; Louisville and Birmingham arent exactly small towns, Hartford isnt so big but they have a decent size arena but if Providence and Manchester NH can host PPVs no reason Hartford can't

Albany is pretty random tho not sure how they chose that one

Hartford is also close to WWE HQ as well.

 

[Rell Lauren]

Looking back on the network, crowds even in New Hampshire used to be hot, now the only hot crowds are NY, Philly, Toronto, LA, Seattle, Chicago, and wherever the post-WM shows are.

They went to Lafayette, LA two years ago and it was the worst crowd I've ever heard.

The worst crowd I ever heard was a Raw in Iowa IIRC. I believe there was a thread on here in which it talked about how WWE graded cities and used that to decide if they were going to come back. Unsurprisingly, that stop had graded an F.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Hartford XL Center and formally Civic Center has always hosted big WWE shows as has Providence

 

[StatUS]

More popular. They used to roll through college towns. Those Raws were wild.