- World Wrestling Entertainment will return to Allentown's PPL Center
- The show is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2
- An advertisement includes L.A. Knight, whose popularity has skyrocketed
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — World Wrestling Entertainment will return to Allentown’s PPL Center with a Live Holiday Tour, it was announced Friday.
The show, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2, will be topped by former Impact Wrestling World Champion L.A. Knight, whose popularity in the WWE has skyrocketed and who recently signed a new contract with the organization, according to news reports.
Also on the bill will be two-time WWE World Champion A.J. Styles, considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, and four-time World Champion Sheamus, the first Irish world champion in WWE history.
Also competing will be two-time WWE Champion Bobby Lashley, WWE Women’s Champion Iyo Sky, and 14-time women's world champion Charlotte Flair; and Raw, SmackDown and NXT Tag Team Championship The Street Profits, Angelo Dawkins and Kenneth Cra; and more.
The show is the WWE’s only stop in Allentown in 2023.Announcement for WWE show at Allentown's PPL Center
The lineup is subject to change.
The announcement said the show is the WWE’s only stop in Allentown in 2023.
Tickets, which will start at $20, but the prices of which have otherwise not been announced, go on sale at noon Sept. 15 at www.PPLCenter.com, the box office at 701 Hamilton St., and at 610-347-TIXX.
Guests can also get a Superstar Experience ticket, which features meet-and-greets, autograph and photo opportunities, as well as the Walk the Aisle Experience, which includes an opportunity to enter the arena just like everyone’s favorite wrestling stars.
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WWE debuted at PPL Center in October 2014. The brand has a long history with the Lehigh Valley. In the early years of WWE, when it was known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation, it staged frequent shows at Allentown Fair’s Agricultural Hall that were shown on nationwide TV, with stars such as Andre the Giant, Bruno Sammartino, “Superstar” Billy Graham and Hulk Hogan. Those shows lasted into the 1980s.
Later the WWE tour made routine stops at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena.
