‘Next stop, Murrayfield!’ WWE’s Drew McIntyre on what fans can expect from Scotland’s first wrestling pay per view

With tickets for Clash at the Castle Scotland, WWE’s first ever pay per view here, going on sale this morning, interest in wrestling in the UK is at an all time high. The firm’s shock announcement that WWE’s Clash at the Castle 2024 will be held at the OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow on Saturday, June 15 2024 , with Friday Night Smackdown also there the night before caused instant reaction from fans across Europe with more than 80% of hotels around the city getting reserved on Booking.com for the date of the event within hours.

Interest in the UK is huge and only growing, hot on the heels of The Rock returning to WWE for a Wrestlemania season that became the most successful of the 40-years of the show, two other UK pay per views - one in Cardiff and one in London - in the last 18 months and a series of star-studded house shows attended by everyone from Anthony Joshua to Wayne Rooney (spoiler: AJ’s welcome was warmer from the crowd).

But Ayr-born wrestler Drew McIntyre , who was instrumental in bringing both the first Clash at the Castle event - held in Cardiff - and this one across the Atlantic is adamant the high-profile event is just the start.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Record he said: “It’s about time. Around the time of the original Clash at the Castle I’d been mouthing off for years that there should be a stadium event in the UK once again because our fanbase is so wild and passionate and it would definitely do insane numbers.

“I’ve always said we should give Scotland the opportunity to give our fans a big show. Ok we can’t get a big stadium yet, but this is phase one as far as I’m concerned, to show everybody we can fill an arena, that we will probably blow the roof off the Hydro . Then the next step is