May 14, 2001 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WWF Insurrextion review, more
WWF’s latest PPV offering in the United Kingdom, the Insurrextion show on 5/5 from Earl’s Court in London, which was broadcast both in the U.K. and strangely, Australia (where it aired live in the middle of the night) as well as in WWF New York (where almost nobody was there to watch it) drew mixed reviews.
The show drew a sellout 15,794 paying $840,054 in U.S. currency.
Like most of the U.K. only PPVs, it came across more like a house show but with some of the characters who don’t do house shows, such as Vince McMahon, doing their television shtick. In the U.K., the American PPV shows air for free on television, and there is becoming more and more of a negative reaction to the shows now that they’ve done enough that they are no longer a novelty. U.K. fans complain the shows don’t have major title changes or affect the storyline while being sold for the equivalent of $20 (a price increase for this show) while the big shows which do have those elements air free.
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