WWE: Hampton Beach, Hyannis, Cohasset main events

WWE will make its annual “tent” loop through Hampton Beach (N.H.), Hyannis and Cohasset (Mass.) the last weekend in August before Raw tapes at the TD Garden in Boston on Aug. 30.

The main event for the shows will feature a three-way dance for the Intercontinental Championship with Kofi Kingston taking on both Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler. Raw’s John Morrison will face Ted DiBiase and Jack Swagger and Matt Hardy will battle in a submissions match.

All three shows are featured in arenas that hold some of the smallest crowds WWE wrestles in front of all year. Hampton Beach, a ballroom type building with an extremely low ceiling, holds maybe 1,500 people. Hyannis and Cohasset are tent-like venues for outdoor concerts that I’d guess holds less than 1,000 people.

I always try to make it to one of these venues every year. It’s an intimate “indy” feel to a WWE show that you don’t get anywhere else.