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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 12, 2023 7:01:16 GMT -5
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 12, 2023 7:06:32 GMT -5
Jericho has a point on this one. Tony Khan is a stats guy, he's not running Wembley unless he thinks they can turn a profit and make a good showing out of it.
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Post by ssdrivin on Apr 12, 2023 7:39:53 GMT -5
Jericho has a point on this one. Tony Khan is a stats guy, he's not running Wembley unless he thinks they can turn a profit and make a good showing out of it. He does, and I'm sure it's tiresome to keep hearing it, but I'm not sure adding fuel to the fire so people can argue more about it is necessarily a brilliant idea.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 12, 2023 7:58:39 GMT -5
Jericho has a point on this one. Tony Khan is a stats guy, he's not running Wembley unless he thinks they can turn a profit and make a good showing out of it. Also, Wembley probably was shown about how they had two sell outs at Arthur Ashe Stadium, a place not known for holding anything else but Tennis, and probably thought "We should probably try wrestling again, it's been way too long".
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Apr 12, 2023 13:05:03 GMT -5
A few thoughts that have crossed my mind since this announcement
Firstly, this is an audacious, seemingly insanely over ambitious move by Tony Khan. To put this into perspective he is running a show in a 90,000 seat venue, when AEW's record crowd I believe is somewhere around 25,000 people. Even WWE doesn't run Wembley. They haven't even tried it since Summerslam 1992. The biggest wrestling company EVER making their return for a major event in the UK went with the considerably smaller Municipality Stadium in Cardiff. The objectively much larger WWE wasn't certain of how well they could do in Wembley. But AEW, a company that in a month celebrates the anniversary of its first event is going to try it. To be frank this is the most fitting tribute they could give to the original All In event, which was itself a seemingly insanely over ambitious plan that everybody said was doomed to fail from the start. In terms of scale I'd say this is a similar undertaking for a multi million dollar wrestling company. This is extremely ballsy
Secondly, this is not NEARLY the first time Tony Khan has tried something audacious and insanely over ambitious. The thing is, every time he's tried to do so in the past he has not only succeeded, but he has done so with STYLE. Start a company with a roster largely comprised of indy talents that don't fit WWE's mold? Regularly draws 800,000 to 1,000,000 Viewers per week. Try to bring back CM Punk who had been gone for 7 years and had publicly stated he had no interest in ever wrestling again? Not only does so, but manages to sell out a 10,000+ seat venue without ever even announcing for sure he'd be there (although this one has aged poorly the point still stands). Hell the dude managed to create a Pay-Per-View where a ****+ main event between Kenny Omega and Christian Cage was an afterthought by the end of the night due to the sheer quality of the show. The fact of the matter is this: Tony Khan is a mad genius (Insert Cocaine related humor here). If he is doing something like this that seems totally impossible to pull off? Odds are this man's got something up his sleeve to make this shit work.
Thirdly, He's got in-roads to anybody in the wrestling industry who is not currently signed to WWE. This man literally has access to just about the entire wrestling world. You don't think that this man can put on an absolutely batshit crazy mega-card in order to get the kind of crowd he's envisioning? NJPW has no events scheduled on or around August 27th, so do you really think they're going to tell ZSJ and Will Ospreay "No you can't wrestle in the biggest and most prestigious venue in your home country! What is wrong with you, you sick weirdos?" Hell no! It's good for the talents on their roster and it's good for New Japan at large to be able to say that their guys have wrestled in Wembley.
If this show isn't at least a moderate success, I will be shocked.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Apr 12, 2023 15:14:00 GMT -5
I had to read this multiple times trying to figure out what Darby Allin had to do with it before realizing he was talking about All In
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Post by darbus alan on Apr 12, 2023 15:20:35 GMT -5
There's always been a ambitious, gambling aspect to AEW's existence. Hell the original All In was basically Cody and the Bucks saying "Bet" after Meltzer tweeted that an indy wrestling show could never fill a bigger arena.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 14, 2023 6:24:45 GMT -5
Per WON the sign up for pre-sale is now over 45k
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Post by discoelysium on Apr 14, 2023 6:53:39 GMT -5
Per WON the sign up for pre-sale is now over 45k Holy crap, if accurate that's really impressive. I imagine most, if they buy, would buy more than one ticket. Although obviously you have factors like people registering and not buying tickets, or a group of friends all registering and only one buying tickets for the group, but that's still an impressive number.
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 14, 2023 7:12:00 GMT -5
45k is really good. I'm sure many of that 45k won't actually buy tickets (I signed up and probably won't) <Scott Steiner voice>but if you take away the people that won't buy tickets and add the multiples that others will buy, they could do 40k from that.
But only as long as the prices are good. That's why Clash at the Castle didn't sell out despite the insane number of registrations. Sure, there were some £50 tickets, but there were so few that hardly anyone could get them and all that was left was £200+ tickets (at the start, anyway, I think some of the prices were reduced nearer the show)
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Post by discoelysium on Apr 14, 2023 7:31:28 GMT -5
45k is really good. I'm sure many of that 45k won't actually buy tickets (I signed up and probably won't) <Scott Steiner voice>but if you take away the people that won't buy tickets and add the multiples that others will buy, they could do 40k from that. But only as long as the prices are good. That's why Clash at the Castle didn't sell out despite the insane number of registrations. Sure, there were some £50 tickets, but there were so few that hardly anyone could get them and all that was left was £200+ tickets (at the start, anyway, I think some of the prices were reduced nearer the show) They've announced the range is £30-500. Depending on set up they could have a lot of cheap seats especially if they want to bulk out the number.
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 14, 2023 8:10:11 GMT -5
45k is really good. I'm sure many of that 45k won't actually buy tickets (I signed up and probably won't) <Scott Steiner voice>but if you take away the people that won't buy tickets and add the multiples that others will buy, they could do 40k from that. But only as long as the prices are good. That's why Clash at the Castle didn't sell out despite the insane number of registrations. Sure, there were some £50 tickets, but there were so few that hardly anyone could get them and all that was left was £200+ tickets (at the start, anyway, I think some of the prices were reduced nearer the show) They've announced the range is £30-500. Depending on set up they could have a lot of cheap seats especially if they want to bulk out the number. Yeah, I know what the range is. My point was that having £30 tickets only matters if people can actually buy them. At Clash at the Castle, there were so few of the cheaper tickets that you couldn't get them.
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Post by raymondo316 on Apr 14, 2023 13:13:44 GMT -5
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 14, 2023 15:36:52 GMT -5
Wow, halve 50,000 and then times it by two and you get 50,000!
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on Apr 14, 2023 16:41:56 GMT -5
45k is really good. I'm sure many of that 45k won't actually buy tickets (I signed up and probably won't) <Scott Steiner voice>but if you take away the people that won't buy tickets and add the multiples that others will buy, they could do 40k from that. But only as long as the prices are good. That's why Clash at the Castle didn't sell out despite the insane number of registrations. Sure, there were some £50 tickets, but there were so few that hardly anyone could get them and all that was left was £200+ tickets (at the start, anyway, I think some of the prices were reduced nearer the show) They've announced the range is £30-500. Depending on set up they could have a lot of cheap seats especially if they want to bulk out the number. I think that’s from someone on Reddit who allegedly asked Ticketmaster but we’ll see soon I’m sure I’d be surprised either way if they don’t do a high number of ticket sales I really would
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Post by darbus alan on Apr 14, 2023 17:39:30 GMT -5
50k presale registrations is nothing to sniff at. Granted, it doesn't mean all those are guaranteed sales. But the interest is definitely there.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 14, 2023 17:49:44 GMT -5
I have a feeling they're gonna get close to selling this out if not outright with registrations like that, wow.
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Apr 16, 2023 9:10:33 GMT -5
Can someone explain to me exactly what presale registration means?
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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 16, 2023 9:41:30 GMT -5
Can someone explain to me exactly what presale registration means? Basically means you get a code to buy tickets early.
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Post by repomark on Apr 18, 2023 8:03:30 GMT -5
Think this is one I am going to have to try and go to. Never been to Wembley and a great chance to show some support for AEW. Hoping they put on an equivalent to WrestleMania Axxess on the Saturday or Monday too.
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