>>8671824Because Europe had no pro wrestling culture aside from the UK, even the UK never had a big promotion, certainly nothing on the level of what America, Mexico or Japan had
>>8671844Since WWF became WWE many countries in Europe started caring about wrestling somewhat, in Italy for example it was a big fad from 2003 to around the death of Eddie Guerrero because every Saturday replays of Smackdown were aired near prime time, after the Benoit shock they took wrestling off all TV channels and wrestling went back to being niche