Throngs of kids from across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau traveled into Shanghai — with all the wrestling merchandise they could carry in tow — for a chance to watch some of wrestling’s biggest name battle it out.
“There’s a whole bunch of fans” in China, said a 22-year old from Beijing who called himself Johnny “Cash” Zhao. He sported an orange T-shirt from the Chinese WWE fan website, 19977.com. Members on the site from Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou and other cities had even organized buses to travel to the Expo event.
Turnout was so strong that all of the 8,000 tickets the WWE was giving away were snatched up within an hour of the box-office’s 9:30 a.m. opening, the company says...More?
source: wall street journal
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