WWE WrestlePalooza is set to return alongside another major star.
A couple of days ago, World Wrestling Entertainment officially announced the return of the ECW original show, WrestlePalooza. Set to take place on September 20th in Indianapolis, the PLE is also set to clash directly against AEW’s All Out 2025.
With the highly anticipated Brock Lesnar vs John Cena match also rumored to take place at that show, the Stamford-based promotion’s Chief Content Officer, Triple H, recently announced the return of a major name for that show.
Triple H, aka Paul Levesque, recently appeared alongside CM Punk on ESPN Thursday and was joined by SportsCenter’s Brian Custer. Officially announcing the return of former Raw broadcaster Pat McAfee, Levesque said,
Pat will be there. He’s going to light the place up. It’s going to be exciting. Indianapolis, we were just there for the Royal Rumble. 70,000 fans there. It was incredible. So we’re looking forward to being back there […]
We’re full guns blazing on ESPN. We are headed into Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia. We are headed into Survivor series. And then right on the other side of that is the Royal Rumble and the road to WrestleMania. So it’s not going to get any bigger. And as I said, this is the perfect partnership to take what we do and take it to a whole other level.”
Since McAfee’s departure earlier this year, his spot was taken over by Corey Graves on Raw. However, with the former NFL punter returning, fans wonder what it might mean for Graves.
Triple H Discusses The Fate Of More Two-Night WWE PLEs
In the same interview, Hall of Famer Triple H opened up on whether the promotion could host more two-night PLEs in the future, similar to WrestleMania and SummerSlam.
I think time will tell, and it’s really for us about super-serving our fans, just like for ESPN, you guys thrive on super-serving your fan base and the people that watch. So do we. It’s what we want to do. So when we can turn these into bigger events, make them destination weekends for fans, that’s what we will do. And it’s all about our fans, our WWE universe and making them happy.
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