:balo2My Dream would be Wrestlemania XXX Wembley England
Main Event
Mario Balotelli VS John Cena.
That Would be epic.
Wembley Stadium is at number 1 in my list.How about Wembly stadium? The home of Summerslam 92. If I remember that event was a success.
It would be about 90,000ish as the stage would take up a stand.I am sure Wembley could do 110,000+ with floor seating added.
I'd imagine the publicity that hosting one Wrestlemania in London would bring would offset any lost revenue from buyrates in the States. It's not exactly something you could do yearly but as a one off, it's possible. If it was during the Attitude Era it would have made headlines throughout Europe and been as anticipated as the Olympics this year. Alas it's the crappy PG era, so it wouldn't be quite that popular but it'd still make probably more news than hosting it in St. Louis or Denver or whatever. People in the States would just take a day off to watch the thing or avoid spoilers. It's not like the time difference in hosting football World Cups and European Championships in Europe or Euro time zone equivalents (South Africa) has affected viewing figures for those events. In fact they keep increasing exponentially event upon event.This list could have just as well been called: 10 good European and South American Stadiums. It has nothing to do with Wrestlemania. The time difference factor is too detrimental to hold Wrestlemania anywhere else. Unless in the future interest for WWE in America plummets to a point where it's more profitable to cater to the European/Japanese/Latin American audiences.
London is a big city. London is up there with Hong Kong and New York City in terms of international presence and just about everything else. If America and London weren't in a different time zone, than a WrestleMania in London would have already happened, probably decades ago.Though I am biased, London seems like a good option. It sounds like a "big" city, which would be appropriate for Wrestlemania. From your list: Munich, Barcelona and Rio sound like good options too.
Nice blog post by the way, good detail!
If Mexico wasn't having so many gang problems within it, then I believe a WrestleMania in Mexico would also be up for talk. But bringing an event like WrestleMania to Mexico now would be dangerous since Mania will attract many visitors from all over the world, and the local gangs love to jip off foreigners/travelers out of their money and other valuables.Mexico could definitely get one. They should've held Wrestlemania 22 in Mexico, I reckon.