Hosting a premium live event like Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia is a logistical challenge for WWE, especially since the cage for the namesake matches has its own transportation needs. The company thought it had the shipping part figured out but needed to change plans because of an unexpected complication: pirates.
Not the eyepatch-wearing kind from movies and TV shows, mind you, but honest to goodness criminals controlling waterways in some parts of the world. During the Elimination Chamber press event earlier today in Perth, Michael Cole noted that pirates forced WWE to find a different way of getting the Chamber itself to Australia, one that basically forced it to reverse shipping directions altogether — much to the disbelief of Cole’s colleague, Corey Graves.
The structure took over a month to get here. Originally it was supposed to ship through the Suez Canal, but pirates made sure that didn’t happen. So it was sent to Miami, it was then shipped by truck to Los Angeles, put on a ship to Sydney, sent on a train to Perth, and now the Elimination Chamber is being constructed as we speak.
Michael Cole once again mentioning the pirates that forced them to re-route the delivery of the Elimination Chamber structure. #WWEChamber pic.twitter.com/NNnzbUNdBZ
— Tim Jarrell of PWUnlimited (@TimmyBuddy) February 23, 2024
Piracy on the high seas is actually on the decline worldwide over the past decade or so, but it still does exist and has been a particular problem in the area around the Suez Canal in Egypt. Thankfully, WWE figured out another way to get the Elimination Chamber to Perth, but it’s wild that it even had to do so.
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