WWE Cardiff 2022; All you need to know
Friday. Six in the morning. You leave home, but it’s not just any day. You’re off to Cardiff, Wales for the first WWE stadium event in Great Britain.
In over 30 years. The premise is not bad. You take the plane and think about what you can find there, about what colleagues who have already.
Arrived tell you, about seeing the atmosphere, about enjoying a weekend of wrestling. The truth is that reality surpassed fiction.
Walking into Cardiff was like walking into the Narnia wardrobe: it was uncharted territory and completely different. It was a city overturned.
By for Clash at the Castle. You walk out of Cardiff Central through some turnstiles with the faces of the fighters and the first thing you.
See are directions to the stadium, posters of the event and, one street further, the Principality Stadium, prepared for what was to come.
The postcard, with Drew McIntyre and Roman Reigns presiding over the riverside stadium, was bucolic. The capital of Wales is not very big.
And that made fans concentrate on a few meeting points. There was a five-minute walk from the rugby team field to the main street.
All of them passing people. With Stone Cold Steve Austin shirts (the most seen), Roman Reigns, Drew McIntyre or the commemorative of the event.
You looked up and saw nation flags accompanied by event banners. At the end of Saint Mary Street you came face to face with the castle.
The recognized emblem of the city it’s not a big deal, but having what they called the Undertaker Experience in one of his catacombs
With various layers of the wrestler. A throne to take pictures of, was a nice touch. A lot of queue -a lot, in fact-, but a nice touch.
In addition, WWE had placed a life-size toy truck. A tent at the entrance to play the video game. At night, the entire area was lit up with the billboard.
For the show, projected on the stone of what. An ancient Roman fort. If you turned right and passed all the fast food places, abundant and.
A salvation for many tourists -myself included-. You could reach the official store. I had never been to any of these features.
On Friday, the day I arrived, there was everything: t-shirts. The official program, a Lilly mask, tickets for exorbitant prices and accessories.
To stop a train. On Saturday, the day of the event. It was impossible to enter. On Sunday they had run out of stock. Opposite, some.
Meet & Greet with fighters -Damian Priest, Dakota Kai, Ridge Holland… – who were impossible to attend. As the eve of a Saturday that.
Promised strong emotions, we went to a pub, Tiny Rebel. To see SmackDown. We were greeted with full-scale models of The Rock and Roman Reigns.
Albeit in a 2014 version. The waiters and waitresses wore no and Roman Reigns t-shirts. There were giant screens in every room, and all.
Them were showing wrestling. At that moment I realized that there was a feeling of brotherhood, of fraternity. There was no room for more people there.
And everyone was happy and happy to host an event of this caliber so many years later. So much so that the only conflicts we saw throughout.
The weekend were orchestrated: From making a stranger surrender to exchanging a customized.
Money In The Bank, going through silletazos, chops, Stunners and even.
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A Charles Robinson, mythical WWE referee , who stopped to make the count of three to the fans. The day of the event arrived and the snapshot was.
Even more impressive. The mouths of the stadium were full from early in the morning, it was impossible to eat and everyone had moved.
To the city, some even without a ticket. Spain was represented by various media and by many fans. In fact, in one of the long queues that.
Formed around the city, a security guard told us that he was surprised to see so much Spanish. That was right before he told us that.
His favorite wrestler was Stacy Keibler. Arriving at three in the afternoon I separated from the group to go pick up my ticket.
After several calls to the WWE department, a lot of tension and general chaos, I was granted access. From here, everything related falls short.
After all, you are there for that. To cover the event and to enjoy the experience. We were ushered backstage, where I could see the likes of.
Tyson Fury, Chad Gable, Rhea Ripley, Scarlett and an angry Karrion Kross, and taken to the press area. The seats were privileged.
We had a panoramic view of the show and all the facilities, food included. And he was grateful, because eating there that day was like finding the Holy Grail.
Clash at the Castle was about to start. I smelled that the atmosphere could be earthquake, but I was especially surprised by the acoustics of the show.
It was an opera wrestling version. The chants of the more than 62,000 people gathered echoed in the closed roof of the Principality.
They rumbled. And, as could also be seen on television, they modified the show. Having the feeling, albeit sterile, of momentary.
Control of the show is incredible. The “Hey, hey Bayley, uh, ah, I wanna know if you’ll be my girl”, the “OoO” from Seth Rollins’ entrance, the “Oh.
Drew McIntyre” or the a cappella Metalingus are already something indelible . When you go to see something like that, you stay with the peripheral.
We saw Dominik’s betrayal of his father Rey Mysterio, the return of Imperium with Giovanni Vinci and the debut of Solo Sikoa, but the intangible.
The ethereal and the experience trumps everything else. And we were lucky, if it can be called that, because WWE asked us to go down to.
The press conference right after the final bell, and we were spared seeing the grotesque Drew McIntyre and Tyson Fury karaoke after.the Scotsman’s defeat.
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The thorn, precisely, was that press conference. A golden opportunity turned into a problem, because the WWE department played.
Our partner Alex McCarthy, without him knowing it, and put him in a fictional segment with Roman Reigns in a real press conference.
That clouded the rest of the questions that were legitimate and were answered as such. In fact, both Triple H and the fighters involved
Seth Rollins, Gunther, Liv Morgan, Drew McIntyre- left several interesting headlines. In the end, however, we went to enjoy the last night.
Each one told his vision of what happened, as if he had been in a different place than the other. It was the day to explain anecdotes.
To practice what you would say to your grandchildren when they asked you about Clash at the Castle. It was also, the next morning.
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The time to leave, to say goodbye to a unique experience and to be able to write these memories, for you and for me, of Cardiff.
