From the WWE Rumor Mill: Global Warming Tour to become PPV in 2018

What’s the story?

WWE’s Global Warming live event tour from 2002 is rumored to return as a pay-per-view in 2018 according to a report published by Pro Wrestling Sheet.

In case you didn’t know...

WWE Global Warming Tour was a live event that took place at Dockland’s Stadium (formerly Colonial Stadium) in Melbourne, Australia. The event took place on Aug. 10, 2002, and featured The Rock defending the Undisputed WWE Champion against Triple H and Brock Lesnar; weeks before The Rock and Lesnar faced off at SummerSlam 2002.

The heart of the matter

The reports from Pro Wrestling Sheet say that there have been serious discussions regarding a reviving the Global Warming Tour as a pay-per-view to be aired on the WWE Network.

However, rather than running the event at Dockland’s Stadium, which held over 56,000 people for the 2002 event, the company is considering running the show at the much larger Melbourne Cricket Ground, which can hold over 100,000 people.

The last big venue the WWE ran was earlier this year at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The Alamodome can hold more than 60,000 fans and the WWE reported an attendance of approximately 52,000.

If WWE does run the Melbourne Cricket Ground and gets well over 80,000 fans in attendance, it will set a WWE attendance record outside of WrestleMania. If the venue does about 94,000 in attendance, it will set the record for the biggest crowd for a WWE pay-per-view since the 100,000 in attendance for WrestleMania 32 was disputed.

What’s next?

WWE was rumored to be running a lessened pay-per-view schedule in 2018, but the addition of this rumored Australia pay-per-view would increase the number of shows to 15.

There was no date reported for the proposed event so the show could run in August weeks before SummerSlam, but that is pure speculation and the show could be moved to a better point in the year.

Author’s take

WWE has some interesting plans for 2018 and this one could be one of the most fun.