- Triple H met Khan at City Hall on Thursday afternoon to discuss a potential deal
- WrestleMania, WWE’s flagship show, has never been held outside North America
- The WWE chief told Mail Sport that everyone is ‘concentrating on the same goal’
WWE executives Triple H and Nick Khan were in London on Thursday to negotiate a deal to take WrestleMania to London.
The duo, who are the chief content officer and president of WWE respectively, arrived at City Hall in Southwark at around 2:30pm to speak to mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
In April, Khan took to social media to plant the seeds of the capital hosting wrestling’s biggest show in the future, to which Triple H, real name Paul Levesque, replied: ‘Let’s talk.’
Talk they did on Thursday, and Triple H exclusively told Mail Sport after: ‘We’re all focused on the same goal, which is WrestleMania coming here. But we’ll see where it goes.’
The mayor, meanwhile, added: ‘We’ve had a really good chat with the team at WWE and TKO. I’ve been blown away by the number of fans who would love to see WrestleMania in London and I know the difference sport makes in terms of bringing fans together.’
WWE executives Triple H (left) and Nick Khan (right) were in London on Thursday for talks over WrestleMania taking place in London
Chief Content Officer Triple H (left) met London mayor Sadiq Khan (right) to engage in talks
The mayor was gifted a WWE title replica, with talks lasting just over half an hour at City Hall
WWE hosted their most successful WrestleMania of all time in Philadelphia in April, with the likes of The Rock, Cody Rhodes and John Cena all present.
Next year they will put on the show in Las Vegas, but there is potential that it could make its way to London – the first time it would have left the United States or Canada – in the very near future.
‘We’ve had an exciting afternoon here, meeting with the mayor, sitting down with everybody here in London to try to determine the next steps on what the big spectacle WWE event is that we can bring here to London and for all the fans here,’ Triple H, who gifted the mayor a small WWE title replica, added. ‘It’s been quite productive.
‘As the sprinkles come down on me right now, weather sometimes is a factor here, the time of year. We’ll see. We’re all here concentrating on the same goal and hopefully it’ll end up in a great place.’
The mayor posted on X, formerly Twitter, post-WrestleMania 40 that he was determined to take the event to London if he was re-elected as mayor. That he was, and the mission is now on.
WWE have enjoyed success in the UK recently, with Money In The Bank a big hit at the O2 Arena last year and Clash At The Castle in Wales and Scotland in recent months also receiving rave reviews.
Triple H and the mayor engaged in early suggestions of an agreement being made in April
A number of executives gathered in a conference room at City Hall for talks over the highly-anticipated deal
WWE has recently held its most successful WrestleMania of all time and is looking to build on that triumph
Nick Khan, however, wouldn’t be pushed on potential venues, with the likes of Wembley and The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium surely the front-runners.
‘We’re booked for next year,’ Khan said. ‘WrestleMania 41, April 19 and 20 in Las Vegas, at Allegiant Stadium.
‘Everything else is part of the conversation today, so let’s see what we can figure out. But we hope to bring something big here.’
The mayor added: ‘This is the start of a conversation we are going to have. These things often take time. I know though that fans are desperate to see the likes of Damian Priest and Cody Rhodes and I think it will be a huge benefit for London.’