WWE legend pitches to hold Wrestlemania in UK as rival AEW gears up for major London show

Wrestling fable John Cena amazed fans with a transportation to clasp WWE's largest unrecorded lawsuit Westlemania, the alleged "Super Bowl of wrestling" that has ne'er taken spot extracurricular of North America, successful London.

WWE brought its premium unrecorded lawsuit called Money successful the Bank to London's O2 arena connected Saturday, successful its 2nd large lawsuit successful the U.K. successful the past year.

Cena, a 16-time satellite champion successful WWE and present Hollywood movie star, shocked fans with an quality astatine Money successful the Bank, aft a adjacent three-month absence.

The assemblage erupted arsenic his tell-tale entranceway euphony hit, but Cena arrived not to combat — but to transportation to clasp Wrestlemania successful London.

"It's not up to me, it's up to the determination makers. They don't needfully cognize however to consciousness astir London," Cena told the packed O2 arena which booed astatine the suggestion.

"They deliberation this is benignant of a hostile environment," Cena said, to which the assemblage replied with a louder chorus of boos.

"They deliberation that sometimes you guys are a distraction. They adjacent deliberation that you guys effort to instrumentality implicit the show," Cena said, to which the assemblage cheered loudly successful agreement.

"You spot that? They don't cognize what they're talking about. You are the voice. You are the heartbeat. You are not trying to instrumentality implicit the show. You are the show," Cena said.

"So I americium present to effort to bring Wrestlemania to London."

The fans erupted successful cheers erstwhile more.

"Take a infinitesimal close now, fto them see, fto them feel, fto them perceive what WrestleMania is going to dependable similar successful London," Cena added.

Wrestlemania is WWE's biggest unrecorded lawsuit and has ne'er taken spot extracurricular of North America. This year's variation was held successful California.

However, the WWE has looked to bash much of its premium unrecorded events, which hap astir erstwhile a month, extracurricular of the U.S. This twelvemonth alone, WWE has held specified events successful Canada, Saudi Arabia, Puerto Rico and the U.K.

The WWE originative process is cautiously scripted. It's unclear if Cena went off-script successful his comments astir London and Wrestlemania. However, the WWE is pushing into planetary markets and if so the comments were planned, it's important that Cena was chosen to present them, fixed his important presumption successful the past of the company.

Paul "Triple H" Levesque, main contented serviceman astatine the WWE, connected Saturday said that Cena had enactment him successful an "unenviable" presumption regarding his bid to marque the U.K. the determination of Wrestlemania. However, helium did not unopen the doorway connected the possibility.

"So ne'er accidental ne'er for immoderate of it. The intent is there. It is simply a batch much hard than it appears, but the intent is there. And if determination  is a mode to get a batch of these planetary events done, we're hellhole bent connected doing them," Levesque said.

Talk of WWE's premier unrecorded lawsuit successful the U.K. comes astatine an absorbing clip for the WWE, which is currently successful the process of merging with UFC. Meanwhile, its startup rival AEW is hosting the 'All In' unrecorded lawsuit astatine Wembley stadium successful the U.K. successful August — a bigger venue than the O2 arena wherever WWE held Money successful the Bank.

Last week, AEW CEO Tony Khan told CNBC that, truthful far, AEW has sold 65,000 tickets for the event, for astir $9 million.

"It's the biggest wrestling lawsuit ever successful Europe and successful the past of pro wrestling lone a mates of the biggest WrestleMania shows basal alongside AEW All In arsenic the biggest gross wrestling shows successful the past of the business. And that amusement is inactive a fewer months away," Khan told CNBC.

AEW is WWE's closest rival and has poached immoderate of the WWE's apical endowment implicit the past fewer years.