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Genre: Wrestling
Produced By: WWE
Format: House Show
Date: November 8 2015
Location: Echo Arena, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Attendance: 8,000
This bonus WWE show review looks at a house show I attended on the latest WWE UK tour, in my hometown of Liverpool, England. Due to a lack of a suitable venue, WWE only made its Liverpool bow in April 2008, and from April 2009 onwards, WWE would always make an appearance in Liverpool during a large-scale tour. This led to Raw and SmackDown being recorded at the Echo Arena for the first time in November 2011. Strangely, it would then be three years before WWE returned to the city, doing so with further TV tapings one year ago, which was followed by this latest presentation. Okay, that's the history lesson over now.
Going into the show, expectations weren't sky-high, and not just because this was a house show in the post-Draft era where we still only see half of the roster at non-televised UK events. Right now, WWE has fewer genuine headline stars to mix and match with since, well, ever: John Cena is on a well-deserved break; Randy Orton recently got hurt; Brock Lesnar is, of course, a part-timer; The Undertaker was only scheduled to appear at the SmackDown TV taping (which was a surprise in itself); Chris Jericho's house show run has ended for now; and, biggest of all, Seth Rollins, who had reigned as WWE World Heavyweight Champion since WrestleMania 31, was injured on the first night of the tour in Dublin, Ireland, meaning that the title is now vacant.
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