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Post by Baixo Astral on Apr 7, 2009 9:38:33 GMT -5
What's the smallest crowd you've ever been part of at a wrestling show? I was at a SAS show in North London on Sunday, and there was:
- My group, of 5
- Another group of friends across the ring, of 5
- 4 preteen kids
- Misc 4 others
For a total of 18. Was painful, especially for a fun company that normally draws about 60-70 (still tiny, but then so is the venue and star power) - meant that the show was short and contained 6 matches, with three totalling 5 mins, including a 3 second and a thirty second match. Anyone been to smaller shows?
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Post by Square on Apr 7, 2009 9:44:28 GMT -5
12 people, 3 old men, 4 teens, a dad with two kids and me and me mate
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Apr 7, 2009 9:46:49 GMT -5
not apart of, but IWA: Mid-South and CHIKARA sure drew some tiny ass crowds back in the day. its bad when the wrestlers out number the audience
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Post by Baixo Astral on Apr 7, 2009 9:47:05 GMT -5
12 people, 3 old men, 4 teens, a dad with two kids and me and me mate Sprules Rulez, Square Droolz! PS - you going to watch Flair, Angle, RVD, Bret Hart and Foley in Morecambe? |
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Post by thereallybigshow on Apr 7, 2009 9:54:36 GMT -5
My first show I ran had about 30 paid.
I've never personally been to worse but I definitely heard of worse.
I'm pretty sure we had a show here in CT headlines by Jerry Lynn v. Justin Credible that drew SEVEN PAID...
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Post by Square on Apr 7, 2009 10:29:53 GMT -5
12 people, 3 old men, 4 teens, a dad with two kids and me and me mate Sprules Rulez, Square Droolz! PS - you going to watch Flair, Angle, RVD, Bret Hart and Foley in Morecambe? LIES! LIES AND SLANDER! And I haven't heard about that until now. I'm gonna have to check it out |
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Post by mike5286 on Apr 7, 2009 10:42:19 GMT -5
18 People at the Old Toen VFW in May of 2007 from the NAWA Orginization.
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Post by mcclanahan on Apr 7, 2009 11:22:02 GMT -5
WWA4, before I started wrestling, litterally 3 people, 2 were students the other just some guy
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Post by GaTechGrad on Apr 7, 2009 11:35:41 GMT -5
I've been to quite a few armory shows where there weren't more than 20 or 30 people.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Apr 7, 2009 11:37:26 GMT -5
I've heard a few horror stories of 0 attendance events, never witnessed one. Around 8-10 people would be the smallest crowd I've ever actually seen.
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Post by texan on Apr 7, 2009 11:40:26 GMT -5
I was at a show just Saturday night that had about maybe 60 people. It was an outside show headlined by Heidenreich and Bushwhacker Luke that took place behind this beer joint in my hometown. I assume it was an outside show, because I believe someone else had already booked the beer joint itself for a quinceanera, or at least that's what it looked like inside. I also think some of the audience members were supposed to have been guests of the quiceanera but just happened to notice a wrestling ring out back and decided to check it out.
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Post by Styx Cover Band on Apr 7, 2009 15:27:49 GMT -5
I've been to a few IWA-MS shows with pretty poor attendance. Lowest I think was 38 back in October of '07
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Post by heyguesswhatidid on Apr 7, 2009 15:35:01 GMT -5
I've heard a few horror stories of 0 attendance events, never witnessed one. Around 8-10 people would be the smallest crowd I've ever actually seen. Technically no fans can witness a show of 0, since then it would be a show of 1. |
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Apr 7, 2009 15:38:41 GMT -5
Technically no fans can witness a show of 0, since then it would be a show of 1. As they're mostly rumours, I assume they start with a wrestler or the promoter of the card, rather than a fan who saw a card with no-one else there but himself. |
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Post by Hypnotix on Apr 7, 2009 15:48:03 GMT -5
I used to do production for a local fed here in Cincy, and there were nights when we only drew 30 at best. However, we'd have nights where it was standing room only, too. You just never knew. Winter months tend to draw more people because its something to go out for. During the summer, people don't like to go out for indy wrestling when they could be doing something outside.
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Post by Marky Mark...Mark on Apr 7, 2009 17:09:33 GMT -5
700-750 I think.
That is one of the peaks of only going to ROH shows.
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Post by thereallybigshow on Apr 7, 2009 17:26:49 GMT -5
700-750 I think. That is one of the peaks of only going to ROH shows. What towns you see them at? I've been to ROH with easily under 500 more like 300-400 |
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Post by Marky Mark...Mark on Apr 7, 2009 17:46:53 GMT -5
700-750 I think. That is one of the peaks of only going to ROH shows. What towns you see them at? I've been to ROH with easily under 500 more like 300-400 Been to the Detroit shows which average 700. I'm close enough to venture to the Canadian markets, along with Dayton, Indy, St. Louis, and Chicago all within 6 hours. |
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Post by Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa on Apr 7, 2009 18:40:01 GMT -5
There was an OVW show about seven or eight years back with four people, free attendance.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 7, 2009 18:42:59 GMT -5
I attended one show at an American Legion Hall that only had 5-6 people in the audience.
Another, not sure if it really counts - a group of pros bought a ring from a guy and wanted to test it out, so they put together a quick "show" in his backyard and advertised it at the Hastings down the road. They were legit workers, not backyarders, but the ring was in the guy's yard at the time. I went to it and I was the ONLY paying customer. The handful of other people there were just family and friends of the family of the guy selling the ring.
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