This is the kind of news that would get any WWE fan excited until they read about the actual plan. See, watch.
The WWE is planning on building an actual Hall of Fame in Orlando, Florida, home to next year’s WrestleMania. You’re pumped right? I was too. Until…
Replacing NBA City at Universal CityWalk adjacent to the theme park, the WWE attraction would incorporate some form of a physical Hall of Fame – displaying famous wrestling memorabilia of the promotion’s legendary performers.
Similar in style to The World – WWE’s former restaurant which occupied a prime spot in Times Square until its closure in 2003 – the restaurant element would incorporate WWE merchandise with a retail area, and multiple screens would show wrestling action while visitors eat their WWE-themed meals.
Similar in style to THE THING THAT ALREADY FAILED ONCE is THIS THING THAT WILL FAIL AGAIN.
Would fans go to an actual Hall of Fame, a brick and mortar building, to see WWE memorabilia and a shrine to the sport of professional wrestling? Absolutely. Will they flock to a fucking theme restaurant to eat overpriced hamburgers underneath the actual hangman’s knot used on Big Bossman? No. How do I know…
Similar in style to The World – WWE’s former restaurant which occupied a prime spot in Times Square until its closure in 2003
Because people didn’t go the first time!!!!!!!!
They might as well call the place Roman Reigns because the WWE is going to push it for years whether fans want it or not.
In the spirit of awful chain restaurants with a professional wrestling theme, here’s my proposed menu for the new WWE Hall of Fame eatery.
[via With Spandex]