WWE followers don’t have to attend too lengthy to observe premium dwell occasions on ESPN’s new streaming service.
After initially saying that it could be a 12 months earlier than we noticed dwell premium WWE occasions on ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, the sports activities leisure firm is now kicking off its newly introduced partnership with the Disney-owned sports activities community subsequent month.
The WWE introduced on Wednesday that wrestling followers look ahead to seeing its inaugural dwell occasion, Wrestlepalooza, on September 20, streaming dwell on the brand new ESPN service at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, and the motion will go down in Indianapolis, which would be the house of this 12 months’s Royal Rumble.
“On September 20, WWE and ESPN are coming collectively for a can’t-miss occasion to kick off our new partnership,” WWE Chief Content material Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque mentioned in an announcement. “The largest Superstars in WWE. The largest model in sports activities media. Are you prepared?”
Deadline studies that followers can count on Wrestlepalooza to characteristic top-tier WWE expertise, with John Cena, who’s headlining the ticket, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, CM Punk, and Drew McIntyre in main matches.
Wrestlepalooza will even mark the ultimate time John Cena steps inside a WWE wrestling ring in Indy.
ESPN’s streaming service launches on August 21.
