Don’t fall off your chair, but the show that WWE was planning to hold at Place Bell in Laval on December 30 has been postponed.
The show is postponed until March 6, evenko announced. “Tickets purchased for December 30, 2021 will be valid for the new date of March 6, 2022”, specifies the promoter in an email.
This show would have been the first WWE presence in Quebec in two years, the most recent event here dating from December 29, 2019.
Postponing next week’s show was a no-brainer, as it was a non-televised gala (a house show), so there was no logic in presenting it behind closed doors. WWE produced numerous closed-door shows in the early months of the pandemic, but these were televised events.
That said, even without the new restrictions in Quebec, it is questionable if the show would have taken place. The specialist site PWInsider has indeed reported that an outbreak of COVID-19 is currently affecting WWE and that many wrestlers and staff have tested positive for the virus in the past few days.
Right now, wrestling fans won’t notice a difference, as the next show to be broadcast on Friday has been pre-taped.
But the organization that formerly employed Rick “The Model” Martel begins two separate tours on December 26. One will start in Tampa, the other in New York, where the average of new daily cases has just tripled in a week. Nearly 18,000 new cases were reported Tuesday in New York City alone.