In recent years, WWE has hosted several Premium Live Events in Europe, including Clash events in Wales, Scotland, Paris, and Italy. Those PLEs have typically been surrounded by a broader tour of the continent for TV tapings and house shows.
Rhodes spoke about touring with WWE in Europe while appearing in the vlog tied to the current European run.
It's a lot of work, but when you're actually on the tour, you find yourself wanting more tour, and you can tell this is a good one because I think everyone here wants to kind of keep going. There's a couple guys here who are used to this base, and then there's people who are completely not used to it, and it's fun to see them get with it, and it's a reminder for us how we used to. But I mean, the whole thing's different because when you're in a new country, that's a different responsibility. I think we've done really well by all the cities we've gone to, particularly feeling them and touching them and having that moment with them individually. Well, I think the biggest takeaway is it's not a secret that some of these events are potentially to gauge places that WWE can go with a bigger setup, with a bigger show. A PLE like Clash, for example. I don't think that's a secret anymore, especially over here, these countries, to a degree, in a very positive manner have been competing with each other on who's the loudest. We get the sound meter, the decibel level, and what city could potentially this next big PLE be in. I think that it's fun to be here on the ground when we're first going to play, like Portugal yesterday, first going to places that we haven't been in a long, long time, to see what the love is there, what the levels are. It's a tribute to what WWE has become. Universally, there hasn't been a place we've gone that hasn't been losing their mind.
Rhodes framed the European tour as demanding work that still leaves the roster wanting more once they are on the road. He pointed to a mix of talent on the tour, with some wrestlers already accustomed to that schedule and others experiencing it for the first time.
He emphasized the added responsibility that comes with performing in a new country and credited WWE for connecting with individual cities on the run. Rhodes singled out the open purpose of certain events on the tour: testing markets where the company could bring a larger production, specifically citing a PLE format such as Clash.
Rhodes also noted that European countries on the tour have, in his view, competed in a positive way over which crowd can be the loudest. WWE tracks crowd volume with a sound meter and decibel readings as part of evaluating where a future major PLE might land.
He referenced Portugal as a recent example of WWE returning to a market it had not visited in a long time, using those first-time or long-awaited stops to measure fan response and crowd levels on the ground.
Elsewhere in the same vlog, Axiom spoke about what it means to him to represent Spain in WWE.
