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Post by squash on Oct 22, 2009 23:50:41 GMT -5
not just talking 5 people for some indy at the local VFW hall -- can be a larger event that was supposed to be huge but drew lousy
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Post by Youngie on Oct 23, 2009 7:15:07 GMT -5
WCW early to mid 90's (before Hogan joined) seemed to draw less than 10,000 people per PPV. Seems small.
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Post by DavidArquette on Oct 23, 2009 7:30:12 GMT -5
Only one I can think of is WCW Slamboree 2000. I'm pretty sure all the seats in the top levels are empty also one entire side of the arena is empty except for the floor seats. Turned out to be a decent show though, better than a lot of their PPV's from that time.
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Post by destrucity on Oct 23, 2009 7:36:53 GMT -5
not just talking 5 people for some indy at the local VFW hall -- can be a larger event that was supposed to be huge but drew lousy The biggest bust had to be WM 7 which was supposed to be held at the LA Coliseum but was moved to the arena. As far as small attendance for a big PPV event, Superclash 3 drew about 1,500 |
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Post by Dean-o on Oct 23, 2009 8:30:28 GMT -5
There is nothing more depressing then a PPV with low attendance.
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Post by texan on Oct 23, 2009 8:38:36 GMT -5
I went to a WCW Thunder once during the dying days, and there must've been only 800-900 people there, if that much. It was a smaller arena to begin with and they had everyone on one side of the buidling so the arena would look full on TV. Only the floor was full on the side with the cameras and there was no one in the balconies.
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Post by default on Oct 23, 2009 12:02:29 GMT -5
I went to a WCW house show at Bryce Jordan Center in like early 2000 I think (it was during the nWo silver with Bret still in it as he ME'ed against Sid).
Despite pretty good publicity, they didn't even sell out the front four rows ringside. I have no idea how many people that was, but it had to be god awful. They ended up letting in college kid's into the lower tier for free.
Everry WWE show in that time frame sold out from '98 to '01 (when I went) They did a Thunder in '98 (I didn't go to sadly) that my friends said wasn't a sell out but was way better attendance wise as the lower tier was full and some of the upper.
Granted, this was State College PA, which falls into McMahon's "Triangle" but still. They had to lose a ton of cash and it was embarrassing they couldn't even get many college kids in there, even after they announced free tickets. I mean it was winter, college was in and there wasn't any snow on the roads.
...Wiki says it seats 15,261. They might've sold 261 tickets.
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Post by Agent P on Oct 23, 2009 12:27:32 GMT -5
I guess the smallest crowd I'd been to was 1,000 at a WWF house show in July of 92, but that is misleading because that was as much as the hall could hold.
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Post by Shiori C: WC Blue Moon Poster on Oct 25, 2009 8:33:58 GMT -5
UWF's Beach Brawl pay-per-view in 1991 drew a pathetic 550 fans and a buyrate of 0.1.
It featured a main event which went just seven minutes; elsewhere on the card, a time-warp as Bob Backlund beat Ivan Koloff in less than three minutes.
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Post by Bubble Lead on Oct 25, 2009 8:52:08 GMT -5
I went to a WCW house show at Bryce Jordan Center in like early 2000 I think (it was during the nWo silver with Bret still in it as he ME'ed against Sid). Despite pretty good publicity, they didn't even sell out the front four rows ringside. I have no idea how many people that was, but it had to be god awful. They ended up letting in college kid's into the lower tier for free. Everry WWE show in that time frame sold out from '98 to '01 (when I went) They did a Thunder in '98 (I didn't go to sadly) that my friends said wasn't a sell out but was way better attendance wise as the lower tier was full and some of the upper. Granted, this was State College PA, which falls into McMahon's "Triangle" but still. They had to lose a ton of cash and it was embarrassing they couldn't even get many college kids in there, even after they announced free tickets. I mean it was winter, college was in and there wasn't any snow on the roads. ...Wiki says it seats 15,261. They might've sold 261 tickets. I know that during WCWs late era they were giving away more tickets for free than they were actually selling for most events. |
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Post by Mac on Oct 25, 2009 9:01:56 GMT -5
I went to a WWE show this year with only 250 people total in attendence. I mean the place only seats 250, but it was a surreal environment.
I dont think Ive ever been to any wrestling event PPV or house show that wasnt nearly sold out.
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Post by brutuscheesecake on Oct 25, 2009 11:25:22 GMT -5
I remember some of the Raws during the WWF's crises days in 1995 and early 1996 seemed to be in gyms or very small arenas that only sat 1500-2000
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Post by FightinPhils777 on Oct 25, 2009 11:46:06 GMT -5
I remember some of the Raws during the WWF's crises days in 1995 and early 1996 seemed to be in gyms or very small arenas that only sat 1500-2000 I went to one of those shows, I miss them actually very fun environment |
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Post by mike5286 on Oct 25, 2009 11:53:24 GMT -5
Here's what i've got
Smallest crowd as far as all of the WWE shows i've been to was in October of 2003 theat had a crowd of less the 2.000 people in Portland Maine and it was a Sunday Afternoon show as well.
As for Indy shows i've been to local shows that have drawn between 20-25 people and it's the most depressing thing ever.
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Post by Abadebe on Oct 25, 2009 12:52:13 GMT -5
The Halftime Heat match between Mankind and the Rock. I don't think I've ever seen a smaller crowd than that.
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Post by ICBM on Oct 25, 2009 12:58:27 GMT -5
The Halftime Heat match between Mankind and the Rock. I don't think I've ever seen a smaller crowd than that. ;D^Cheeseball! |
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Post by ICBM on Oct 25, 2009 13:00:40 GMT -5
It was amazing to watch wcw's Nitros and thunders from the late 2000 tour of Australia compared to the arenas they played in the states a week before and after. They had to have put every bit of 15,000 in Melborne but probabily had less than a quarter of that the next week.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Oct 25, 2009 13:04:58 GMT -5
XPW had some seriously poor paid attendances, but then given the quality of their product, that isn't shocking. They pulled people in off the street, and even most of them left before the end of the show. Most of their main events had the arena lights down totally except for over the ring so as to not show up the big empty gaps.
1PW in the UK over reached themselves with some WAAAAY too big venues too.
TNA apparently only had 850 paid for their latest PPV too, which having watched the first 40 minutes of, I can totally appreciate.
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Post by Shiori C: WC Blue Moon Poster on Oct 25, 2009 15:18:33 GMT -5
If we're going for local attendances I've been in an audience of 15- which is still nearly double the amount that notorious Blackpool fed OPWO pulled to one of their shows.
Obviously AWA had an entire run of empty arena shows- which was allegedly because nobody was going to their shows.
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Post by M. Dirrty on Oct 26, 2009 16:33:49 GMT -5
WWF Raw in '95
The double taping which featured the lead in and match between Shatner vs. Lawler and the Wippleman vs. Fink tux match.
the Summit only held around 14,000 for wrestling and the had half the arena tarped off.
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