RevPro At Wembley What Do They Need To Do?

What do we have? Half a year before this show? Look I need to talk and talk now. Next August is the biggest night in British Wrestling History arguably since the pandemic as Revolution Pro Wrestling heads to Wembley Arena for their 14th anniversary show and man it’s already feeling like a big show. Yes, I already have my tickets but Wembley arena is a big venue with a big wrestling history and as such this needs to be a big show. The day before All In and you’d expect a lot of people to already be around Wembley the day RevPro take centre stage and as such they need to bring as many people in as possible. As such we need discuss the major issue for RevPro and that is how to get as many buts in as many seats. 

But first, let us break down Wembley Arena for wrestling. A venue in the shadow of Wembley Stadium it has a big history of its own. It’s a unique venue and probably the only one that both Sting & Kurt Angle have won world titles in (WCW & TNA respectively). But not just that it is the venue that held the long awaited clash of Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. It’s not just big American companies coming over it holds a personal history even up to Progress holding a show at Wembley arena. There’s a weight there to add to the legacy and history not just for RevPro but for wrestling at Wembley.   Not only that I imagine it costs a fair whack to rent for the night so you need a massive card to leave your mark in history.

So what is the main thing RevPro can do? Well it’s plan and announce ahead of time. I’m sat here on the 2nd December 5 days away from live in London with only 3 matches announced (who knows might be 4 by the end of the day). On average we see 8 matches on these cards so we have 5 days to announce 5 matches. I don’t understand how this is good promotion? Surely you want to announce things more in advance to get more tickets over a longe period. This is the third live in London show I will go and you do see the same faces so are they just banking on repeat business? I dunno but that won’t fly for a bigger venue.

I had this issue with this years anniversary show. Seemingly took forever for any match announcements, night one being global wars came really late as an announcement and no offence to Persephone vs. Emersyn Jayne but it was announced 48 hours before the show and wasn’t built up was just a match for the sake both women were there. Is that what the biggest show of the year was for? Thrown together matches? I can only imagine this was because it was sold out (and Saturday did look it) so why bother. I mean the CPF & Blue Panther vs. Kraven, Trew, Lacey & Hechicero was never announced on Facebook. It marked a complete shift from the year before at the Copper Box where we had Zack Sabre Jr vs. Hechicero announced a month before. I must be a move tickets thing but it was concerning the week of RevPro’s biggest shows we didn’t have the full card 7 days out. This cannot happen this year even if it is mystery opponents or surprise partners sure but needs announcing to allow interest to build.

So can a British company really sell bulk of tickets. Well I think they can. It needs a good card, good advertising and good luck. I’m not saying that they need to book just a bunch of random imports (I am saying book Mistico, please) but it will need people that will grab in those who aren’t RevPro regulars. This past year the anniversary shows featured Blue Panther, Hechicero, Ishii, Shibata, Tanahashi, Kyle Fletcher, Mercedes Mone to name a few. Those are worldwide names people know and I do expect to have a lot of multi person matches to get as many on the card (the cruiserweight scramble will be back and if we can get another hardcore multi person match like the women did on the 12th anniversary show I’d love that) so slots are open, that international dream match of Zack Sabre Jr vs. Mistico is the first thing I’d book, but that’s just me.

All in all we have a lot of time left and a number of big RevPro shows to go. I’m sure nothing will be announced before the Revolution Rumble and the winner will main event Wembley (I’d do Connor Mills (c) vs. Rumble Winner Michael Oku personally). But everything onward needs to look towards Wembley Arena. Though Uprising, High Stakes and beyond but for that you need a plan you need to have action and that is what I hope is ready and about to be actioned.