Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre starrer Clash at the Castle is vastly considered the best pay per view event of 2022. The event only had six matches but even with six matches on the card, it turned out to be the best event of the year. It featured some of the best matches of the Year including the intercontinental championship clash between Gunther and Sheamus.
The main event of the night was for the WWE Universal Heavyweight Championship where Drew McIntyre challenged Roman Reigns for the title. This match was also excellently received and the fans were expecting McIntyre to finally dethrone The Tribal Chief and take his title away. But Roman Reigns was able to keep it.
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Drew McIntyre was a hot favourite of this event and the fans remained on his side throughout. It was hard breaking for majority of the fans in the arena to see their favourite getting beaten at the end. McIntyre recently explained how he always wanted a UK based WWE pay per view. Speaking on the “Under the Ring” podcast, he said;
On his support for a UK pay-per-view before Clash was planned: “Man, it feels good to be right. I don’t like to say I told you so but… [laughs]. I had been harassing management for many, many years. When it came to the stadium show in the U.K, I’ve always known the passion for the UK fans, I knew that they would show up if they were getting something that was theirs and I know financially how good it would be for the company.
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“Obviously that’s not my [place], it isn’t for me to say, ‘We should just do this’ because I don’t understand the logistics and that was the excuse I got initially. But when it got to the point where we were doing super shows in places like Australia, suddenly things like logistics and time difference raised my eyebrow.
“I said, ‘Okay, we really should be looking at this.’ Eventually, I heard rumblings of the conversation of [the UK] maybe getting a stadium show and eventually, I was able to get involved and speak to the government. It was so cool to finally get a significant stadium show at Clash At The Castle, and also to be in the main event and to hear the fans.”
After the success of Clash at the Castle, WWE has decided to organise more UK based pay per view events. One of the latest events that took place in UK was Money in the Bank which was a huge success too. Wrestling Legend John Cena even used a future UK based WrestleMania as well. Moreover UK is turning out to be a Paradise for professional wrestling.
H/T – eWrestlingNews.com