5 potential venues for SummerSlam 2019

Summerslam has been one of the marquee events in the annual WWE calendar. The inaugural edition of Summerslam took place in the year 1988 at the iconic Madison Square Garden wherein the main event The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) squared off against the Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and Andre the Gaint).

Over the years, Summerslam has become one of the most anticipated events of the year to a point where it is dubbed as the WWE's second biggest annual offering after Wrestlemania.

Some of the greatest moments in WWE history have taken place in the biggest party of the summer like the historic Intercontinental Championship match between the British Bulldog and Bret Hart, Lex Luger bodyslamming Yokozuna and Brock Lesnar winning the Undisputed WWE title just to name a few.

A major part of the success of Summerslam can be attributed to the massive press coverage that the event receives every year. This is primarily due to the fact that WWE has been holding the event in New York, the cultural and media hub of the United States.

This year Summerslam will enumerate from the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York on August 19, 2018.

With WWE announcing that the Barclays Center will play host to the events preceding and following Wrestlemania 29, it seems likely that they will be shifting SummerSlam from the Barclays Center to a new place.

So, here are five potential Venues where SummerSlam 2019 can be held:

#5 The Alamodome (San Antonio, Texas)

Being the biggest party of the summer, it's a shame that SummerSlam is still being held in smaller arenas. The time is right for WWE to move it to a bigger arena. With Promotions like ROH and NJPW moving to bigger arenas, it is entirely possible that WWE decides to move to bigger arenas or stadiums for their Big Four PPV's.

The Alamodome serves the criteria to a tee as in addition to being a domed arena, it can hold more than 65,000 people.

The Alamodome has previously hosted Royal Rumble twice in 1997 and 2017 with Stone Cold Steve Austin and Randy Orton winning the Royal Rumble Matches. The 2017 event received worldwide acclaim and grabbed multiple because of the fantastic match between John Cena and AJ Styles where Cena captured his 16th Word title thereby equalling Ric Flair's historic record of 16 world title wins.

San Antonio is the hometown of perhaps one of the greatest to ever step in the wrestling ring, Shawn Michaels. The Heart Break Kid might just give us that one more match that he has been teasing as of late.

#4 Dodgers Stadium (Los Angeles, California)

The City of Angels hosted the biggest party of the summer for six consecutive years from 2009 to 2014 when it was held in Staples Center. The staples center has been a home away from home for the WWE and provided numerous shocking moments that will be forever be etched in the minds of the WWE universe. Some of them include the insane TCL Match between CM Punk and Jeff Hardy, Brock Lesnar destroying John Cena in the most epic one-sided championship match in WWE history and Daniel Bryan finally winning the WWE Championship.

With rumors going around that WWE might be planning to return to the city for Summerslam 2018, it is only befitting that they hold the show in the Dodgers Stadium. What may entice WWE to go back to Los Angeles is the fact that the event will generate maximum attention from the mainstream media which the WWE craves for. Multiple Hollywood celebrities will be attending the event and as we have come to know over the years, the WWE never fails to encash on these opportunities.

The Company is not averse to the idea of holding a show in a baseball park as the Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona will be the venue for Royal Rumble next year. The Dodgers stadium is one of the most iconic baseball parks in the country and holding an event there will raise WWE's stock to newer heights.

#3 Allstate Arena (Chicago, Illinois)

WWE and Chicago have had quite a rocky relationship. The Wind city is considered to have one of the vocal and raucous fans in the entire wrestling world. The Allstate Arena or The Rosemont Horizon as it was previously called has borne witness to perhaps some of the greatest moments in the history of the company like the iconic Austin-Hart double turn at WrestleMania 13, the debut of Chris Jericho which to this date remains the greatest debut in WWE history and the hometown hero CM Punk defeating John Cena to capture the WWE Championship.

But ever since their hometown and WWE alumni CM Punk left the company, the Chicago crowd has become rowdier and have left no stone unturned in hijacking multiple WWE events by doing random chants of CM PUNK. It has come to point where WWE commentators refer to the city as 'Bizzaroland'.

WWE have sold out the arena almost everytime they had been to the city even in times where business was quite lukewarm in the rest of the country. This goes on to prove the immense passion that the people of Chicago have for professional wrestling and they have every right to express their feeling as they have paid their hard earned money to see the show.

Chicago is and always will be one of the greatest pro wrestling towns in the world and with ALL IN selling out in record time, the time is now for the WWE to move the biggest Party of the Summer toChi-Town.

#2 Madison Square Garden (New York City, New York)

The mecca of Combat Sports has been the home of WWE ever since it's inception. Vince McMahon Sr. would run shows every month at MSG. Bruno Sammartino is believed to have sold out the Garden an astonishing 188 times.

The eternal home of the company has hosted each of the Big Four Pay per view more than once and the company has enjoyed tremendous success in the New York area due to its events in the Graden.

But the relationship between the Company and the Garden hasn't been good over the recent years with WWE holding some of its major events in the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn. Things soured to such an event that Garden was starting to entertain the idea of hosting Non-WWE Wrestling events which shocked the wrestling community as no company other than WWE, not even the mighty WCW have held events in the Garden.

The Garden recently announced that it will host the G1 Supercard produced jointly by New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honour next year during Wrestlemania Weekend.

But things aren't as gloomy as they might seem with the company recently hosting a live event in the venue recently. WWE has also announced they will be returning to MSG on Boxing Day (26th December) this year as the venue will play host to Smackdown Live. With this announcement, we see no reason why Summerslam can't return to its first home next year.

#1 Wembley Stadium (London, England)

The sight of the British Bulldog beating Bret Hart and capturing the intercontinental championship in front of a jam-packed Wembley stadium is the stuff the legends are made of. Summerslam 1992 was the highest attended shows in WWE history.

WWE has since then held only one major event in the United Kingdom - NXT Takeover: London way back in 2015. The UK fans have been clamoring for the world's biggest wrestling promotion to return to their country for another major pay-per-view event.

The UK wrestling is the hottest it has ever been and with the re-debut of the hugely popular World of Sports (WOS), it is only expected to grow by leaps and bounds in the coming years. WWE has taken notice of the same with the introduction of the UK Championship and the recently announced NXT UK Brand and with the company signing some of the UK's top tier talent like Toni Storm, El Ligero, and Jack Gibson, it seems like the company have realised the true potential that this part of the world has.

Holding Summerslam at the iconic Wembley Stadium, which hosted the greatest edition of the event will be a huge statement on WWE's part. With the company opening up to the producing larger events outside North America, this will only solidify the company's position at the top of the wrestling pyramid.

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Edited by Kishan Prasad