In an interview with the Lancashire Evening Post, WWE superstar Wade Barrett confirmed that he’s currently off WWE television due to a work visa issue. The WWE superstar also noted that he’s hoping to get the Preston North End football team (the team he supports) along to the WWE TV tapings in the UK next month, to repay the favour after they gave him a day out with the team and discussed the very British crowd at the post-WrestleMania 29 edition of WWE RAW.
On his work visa issues: “Fingers crossed I’m getting this Visa sorted soon, which has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works for us. I was supposed to be going on tour to Abu Dhabi but I’m going to get taken off that. It’s not really problems, they’re just really slow at processing them. I think the Night of Champions pay-per-view I was supposed to be away for, but I also missed Battleground.”
On WWE’s upcoming UK events: “We’ve got Manchester I think on the 11th and 12th, our two TV tapings. I know we’re trying our best to get the Preston North End first team along for the shows, which would be really cool. I know a few of the lads are fans and they’re planning a team night-out or something like that. They need to check their schedules first but I want to give them a good night-out, like they gave me a good day out in Walsall. Hopefully now I can repay the favour!”
On the WrestleMania 29 event and the RAW crowd the next night, including a unique reaction: “I’ve wrestled in two WrestleManias now – the one this time I think was an 80,000 crowd. Going out there and wrestling in front of a packed NFL stadium, with 80,000 screaming fans who are all losing their minds, is a great experience, and something I will never forget. It was pretty cool to get it back so quickly. The crowd that night were very unique. I think one of the cool things about the crowd is because so many Brits come over to watch WrestleMania, a lot of them stay the next night and watch the Raw TV show too. Basically you went from an 80,000 crowd with maybe 10 per cent of it being Brits, to the next night we’re in a 15,000 crowd in a smaller area, but probably half the crowd were British. I was kind of the popular guy that night and everyone was cheering for me, which is pretty unique in the States where I’m normally booed. I think for the first time the star of the show was actually the crowd that day, they were fantastic. It was like an English football crowd!”
The interview is available in full at this link.
