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Pro wrestling to return to Fayetteville

Tickets go on sale next week

Rachael Riley
rriley@fayobserver.com
Wrestling superstar Shinsuke Nakamura, right, in a match against Rusev during a WWE Live event on Jan. 6, 2019, at the Crown Coliseum. Nakamura is in the lineup to return to the coliseum on Dec. 6, 2019. [Contributed photo/Ed Clemente]

Tickets for an upcoming World Wrestling Entertainment event in Fayetteville will go on sale  Oct. 25, officials said.

Officials said the wrestling event is the first time WWE TV has returned to Fayetteville in more than seven years.

It is scheduled for Dec. 6 at the Crown Coliseum and will feature wrestling superstars including Roman Reigns, The fiend Bray Wyatt, Daniel Bryan, The New Day, Braun Strowman, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Shinsuke Nakamura, Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode, King Corbin and more.

The “WWE Friday Night SmackDown” also will  broadcast on FOX as part of a “Tribute to the Troops” event, officials said.

Tickets can be purchased starting at 10 a.m. Oct. 25 online at www.CapeFearTix.com, by phone at 888-257-6208 and in person at the Crown Complex box office and the Leisure Travel Office located on Fort Bragg.

Rachael Riley