The WWE world has been facing quite some turbulence lately, and recent reports all seem to add up to it. After the Cody Rhodes-Roman Reigns-The Rock drama, now reports are revealing that even the upcoming Elimination Chamber scheduled to be held in Perth had to surpass quite a few barricades just to reach fans on its planned day and date.
This Elimination Chamber almost wouldn’t have been possible because of all the changes in plans induced by pirates. Yes, you read it right. It was indeed pirates who caused this turbulence for WWE. And not pirates like Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, no: It was real-life pirates who caused panic in WWE before the Elimination Chamber!
Real-Life Pirates Spelled Trouble For The WWE Elimination Chamber
This year’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2024, planned to be held in Perth, Australia, is one of the most anticipated events by fans. Yet, there was a chance of them almost not getting to see it this year, all because of some notorious real-life pirates.
During the recent Elimination Chamber press event outside of Optus Stadium in Perth, Michael Cole, an announcer for WWE, shared the critical news of how the Elimination Chamber’s structure “had to endure actual piracy to get here to Perth,” as co-announcer Corey Graves said.
As Cole said, this very structure for the event “took over a month” to reach its final destination in Australia (via WWE | YouTube):
“Originally, it was supposed to ship through the Suez Canal, but pirates ended those plans. So it was sent to Miami, transported via truck to Los Angeles, taken by ship to Sydney, and then by train to Perth.”
Forget Johnny Depp‘s infamous Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, WWE had to endure real panic and trouble because of real-life pirates!
Continuing, Michael Cole then explained how the structure was constructed as he said: “It has been constructed over the past two days in the sweltering heat — sixteen feet tall, weighing ten times, with two miles of chains.”
For those who may not know, this year’s Elimination Chamber will notably be the 14th annual pay-per-view event by WWE. It would feature three championship matches along with two Elimination Chamber matches before finally determining who the number one contenders would be.
Fans React To Pirates Almost Stealing The Elimination Chamber Structure
Following this revelation about Pirates almost stealing the Elimination Chamber structure, fans are letting their imaginations run wild about this very incident.
While many are unable to believe that pirates still exist, others in the meanwhile, are nodding at this as being the professional wrestler Paul Burchill’s way of announcing his comeback.
Some other fans are having even more hilarious reactions to this as they try to rack their brains to decipher just why pirates may need to steal something like the Elimination Chamber structure.
All in all, taking to X, here’s how they are reacting to this piece of news:
That was wild I thought I heard him wrong
— K.N.C👑 🇨🇺 SZN ♋💯🔴 (@IEat_Her_Tweets) February 23, 2024
Tf? Pirates are real????
— The Visionary Nightmare (@Realjediorder5) February 23, 2024
Must be the work of Paul Burchill pic.twitter.com/lJUi0izVNy
— Mizzuyama (水山) (@mizzusomething) February 24, 2024
I was wondering how they where gonna get that giant steel cage there. I kinda was thinking maybe they made one in that area of the world just so future events with it would be easier if in Europe but I guess not.
— AgentBoolen 🐀 (@AgentBoolen) February 23, 2024
gather round maties were gonna hijack the chamber arrrrr pic.twitter.com/rORcN5G2Dl
— ALBOY88 (@alboy88) February 23, 2024
imagine they have pirates come out like they did with zombies 😭😭💀💀
— oooooo (@allty69) February 23, 2024
The hell were the pirates gonna do, have a chamber match themselves? That would've been hilarious.
— Mannyrs13.eth (@Mannyrs13) February 23, 2024
Well, irrespective of whatever barriers it may have had to face before reaching Perth, Australia for the event, fans are just happy that they would get to see this year’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2024 nonetheless.
You can watch the live streaming of the event on Peacock on the 24th of February, 2024, at 5 a.m. ET (4 a.m. ET kickoff show).
