A huge crowd watched WWE’s Super Showdown but smaller numbers at other events suggest wrestling is in truly rude health
On Saturday night as I sat with around 70,000 of my closest friends at WWE’s Super Showdown at the MCG and watched as The Undertaker pulled out Old School for one last time, I heard Lucille Bremer’s voice ringing in my ears. “We don’t have to come here on a train or stay in a hotel,” Bremer says, gazing at the Palace Of Electricity as the evergreen 1944 musical Meet Me In St Louis draws to a close. “It’s right in our own home town.”
Though WWE and its developmental arm, NXT, have done plenty of live “house shows” in Australia before, there was an extra frisson about Super Showdown being a real, live pay-per-view that everyone else in the world could see. Even through binoculars from the top of the Southern Stand, seeing Charlotte Flair’s moonsault in real life still gave me goosebumps.
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