WWE is considering Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium for SummerSlam 2021
By Amit Shukla
WWE is considering Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium to host SummerSlam 2021. The news around this stadium being the front runner did the rounds, but why is WWE considering this re-opened stadium for this major annual event?
The current direction is for SummerSlam 2021 to have a live crowd in attendance, just like WrestleMania 37. As with other shows slowly opening up around the country, this would be an event that is held at 100 percent capacity. SummerSlam is perhaps the second most important show on the WWE’s slate of events and having fans in attendance is a vital part of that atmosphere.
SummerSlam has given wrestling fans some of the biggest moments. These moments include the match between The Ultimate Warrior and Honky Tonk Man during the inaugural event, Bret Hart vs British Bulldog for the Intercontinental championship in 1992 in the first SummerSlam hosted outside North America in London’s Wembley Stadium, which gave the highest in-arena audience for the show at 80,355. Becky Lynch’s turn in 2018 and other moments have made the event worth the time every year, and this year is no different.
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Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium is away from the Las Vegas strip, so the company has complete freedom to do as they please to make the event fascinating. It re-started in October of 2020 and has had only one concert there, as of writing this article.
WWE’s SummerSlam event in 2021 will happen in front of a fully occupied audience, and this means that they can set another attendance world record at the show. The first time it happened when the show was outside North America, but this time around, it will be in the United States as the stadium has a seating capacity of seventy-two thousand. It would be a ground-breaking moment for the WWE’s event in four decades and a moment for the stadium as well that wants to host events shortly.
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It is a possibility that Brock Lesnar may return months before the show to promote the dream match between himself and The All Mighty Bobby Lashley. Lesnar lost his WWE Championship last year at WrestleMania 36, and he would want to get his hands on the coveted title again. He is a box-office attraction, and the tickets to the show will sell out in an instant. Lesnar vs Lashley is on the bucket list of many wrestlers and wrestling fans, and it could be the perfect place to live a match between two powerhouses that can change the course of the WWE with their presence on television and their performance between the ropes.
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