{"id":161336,"date":"2025-06-05T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161336\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:21:12","slug":"london-mayor-sadiq-khan-makes-pitch-to-bring-wrestlemania-across-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161336\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor Sadiq Khan makes pitch to bring WrestleMania across the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"General view of WrestleMania 41 Sunday at Allegiant Stadium\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TCVQ6J5RCBAOHGUOVPT2GQAWDQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"535\"\/>Speculation has \u201cbeen rife\u201d about London as a destination since 2023 when John Cena\u2019s show appearance \u201cgave backing to the idea of bringing WrestleMania to the British capital.\u201d WWE via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">London Mayor Sadiq Khan made a pitch to WWE to \u201cbring the wrestling promotion\u2019s biggest event,\u201d WrestleMania, to the U.K. capital, according to Arjun Kharpal of CNBC.com. Khan said, \u201cI\u2019d love for WrestleMania to come to London.\u201d Speculation has \u201cbeen rife\u201d about London as a destination since 2023 when John Cena\u2019s show appearance \u201cgave backing to the idea of bringing WrestleMania to the British capital.\u201d It would be the first time the event is hosted outside of North America. Khan \u201cheld talks\u201d with WWE Chief Content Officer Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque in July last year, \u201cadding to the speculation.\u201d Khan: \u201cTriple H if you\u2019re watching, we want WrestleMania to come to London.\u201d This speculation comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/23\/wwe-moving-2026-wrestlemania-from-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/23\/wwe-moving-2026-wrestlemania-from-new-orleans\/\">cancellation of New Orleans hosting<\/a> the 2026 WrestleMania (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/05\/wrestlemania-in-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-makes-pitch-to-triple-h.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/05\/wrestlemania-in-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-makes-pitch-to-triple-h.html\">CNBC.com, 6\/5<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation has \u201cbeen rife\u201d about London as a destination since 2023 when John Cena\u2019s show appearance \u201cgave backing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,77,4884,257,16,15,149],"class_list":{"0":"post-161336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}