What was with the locations for WWF PPVs in 2000?

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Being in Louisville for Rock vs HHH ironman match when Taker returned.

He got a huge pop in Kentucky

 

[Starboy52]

TBF, The Kentuckies are a decent sized hotbed for wrestling thanks to OVW in Louisville & The Carr Wrestling Academy in Lexington.

 

[Rack4K]

Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim (now known as the Honda Center) was a used alot back then

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

There isn't anything strange about that.

Hartford is a historical WWF town in their home state and has the biggest indoor arena in the state (HCC/XLCenter) and has even hosted a WrestleMania before (XI) and hosted Survivor Series 1990 where the Undertaker made his debut.

Louisville is a huge wrestling town. Freedom Hall and Louisville Gardens are historic wrestling venues going back to the 70's.and before 2000, Louisville had already hosted two other PPV's: In Your House Feb. 1996 and Ground Zero in 1997.

Albany is another historical WWF town they've been running shows there since the early 90's (IIRC) The GOAT 1992 Royal Rumble and the famous Raw after WresleMania XIV both took place in Albany.

Birmingham is another town they've been running shows at since the 80's WCW and ECW ran this town as well. Them getting a PPV isn't strange at all IMO.

Raleigh getting Summeslam was probably because they just built a new arena there and when WWF chose it to host Summerslam 2000 it drew 17,000 fans and a 1.1 million dollar gate (the first non-WM show to do a million). Raleigh historically was a NWA/WCW town back in the day.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

There isn't anything strange about that.

Hartford is a historical WWF town in their home state and has the biggest indoor arena in the state (HCC/XLCenter) and has even hosted a WrestleMania before (XI) and hosted Survivor Series 1990 where the Undertaker made his debut.

Louisville is a huge wrestling town. Freedom Hall and Louisville Gardens are historic wrestling venues going back to the 70's.and before 2000, Louisville had already hosted two other PPV's: In Your House Feb. 1996 and Ground Zero in 1997.

Albany is another historical WWF town they've been running shows there since the early 90's (IIRC) The GOAT 1992 Royal Rumble and the famous Raw after WresleMania XIV both took place in Albany.

Birmingham is another town they've been running shows at since the 80's WCW and ECW ran this town as well. Them getting a PPV isn't strange at all IMO.

Raleigh getting Summeslam was probably because they just built a new arena there and when WWF chose it to host Summerslam 2000 it drew 17,000 fans. Raleigh historically was a NWA/WCW town back in the day.

I think this thread can be closed up now.

 

[Rell84shots]

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

Wrestlemania 2000 was not a classic, I did like the knockoff California Love theme song though.

 

[staticshock]

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.

Why are you acting like those cities have populations of 300?

those are some good mid sized cities

bham

Raleigh

louisville

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Wrestlemania 2000 was not a classic, I did like the knockoff California Love theme song though.

I forgot all about that show honestly
It being so lame helped make Backlash even better so I’ll take it atleast