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Post by polarbearpete on May 3, 2023 13:30:02 GMT -5
I can't believe that Twitter Vincel really said "Imagine if WWE lied about tickets sold how people would react" like it hasn't already happened lol. Also, with 43k tickets sold, this officially makes All In the most tickets sold for a non-WWE American company for a single wrestling event, surpassing the July 1998 WCW Nitro in the Georgia Dome (which sold about 41,400 tickets). This isn't counting the infamous North Korean WCW/NJPW Collision in Korea show. I want to say it's going to be the most for any single event from any non-WWE company, but I don't know if any of the Tokyo Dome shows or major Mexican lucha libre shows did even better. I know Wrestle Kingdom regularly does in the high 30k-low 40k range per night at least, but not sure what their record attendance for a single night was. There are a bunch of Japanese-based shows (around 43 shows by my count) that had over 50K in attendance, at least according to Wikipedia. 3 of those were billed as WCW super shows.
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Post by Dang! on May 3, 2023 13:33:43 GMT -5
How did they sell that many tickets without official sales having even started? I'm happy that they're successful, but I was considering going there and I'm afraid I might not get tickets.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 3, 2023 13:42:14 GMT -5
How did they sell that many tickets without official sales having even started? I'm happy that they're successful, but I was considering going there and I'm afraid I might not get tickets. They are opening tickets across a lot of different sections so the General On Sale should have seats across the arena for all types of budgets. With a giant stage - they could probably do 65-80K so there will be plenty of seats still available.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on May 3, 2023 14:01:00 GMT -5
I can't believe that Twitter Vincel really said "Imagine if WWE lied about tickets sold how people would react" like it hasn't already happened lol. Also, with 43k tickets sold, this officially makes All In the most tickets sold for a non-WWE American company for a single wrestling event, surpassing the July 1998 WCW Nitro in the Georgia Dome (which sold about 41,400 tickets). This isn't counting the infamous North Korean WCW/NJPW Collision in Korea show. I want to say it's going to be the most for any single event from any non-WWE company, but I don't know if any of the Tokyo Dome shows or major Mexican lucha libre shows did even better. I know Wrestle Kingdom regularly does in the high 30k-low 40k range per night at least, but not sure what their record attendance for a single night was. I think NJPW's highest attendance (not including their role in Collision in Korea) was Inoki's retirement show in 1998 which had around 70,000. They have a very realistic chance of beating that. If they sell 50,000 by the end of this week that gives them 3 months to shift the rest and you can start announcing matches to entice people more.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 3, 2023 14:25:05 GMT -5
How did they sell that many tickets without official sales having even started? I'm happy that they're successful, but I was considering going there and I'm afraid I might not get tickets. They are opening tickets across a lot of different sections so the General On Sale should have seats across the arena for all types of budgets. With a giant stage - they could probably do 65-80K so there will be plenty of seats still available. Yeah, I highly doubt the pre-sales coming up will be that massive so there shouldn't be an issue with it on general release. Especially since, by all accounts, a lot of the stadium still hasn't been even touched yet.
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Post by lucaslawless on May 3, 2023 15:01:44 GMT -5
Though the pre-sale tomorrow is without a password isn't it? Its just Ticketmaster presale? Which is what exactly?!
I dont think its sunk in yet that Im going. At the same time im panicking about my seats but realise there will be big screens and an electric atmosphere.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 3, 2023 15:11:25 GMT -5
Though the pre-sale tomorrow is without a password isn't it? Its just Ticketmaster presale? Which is what exactly?! I dont think its sunk in yet that Im going. At the same time im panicking about my seats but realise there will be big screens and an electric atmosphere. Considering it’s both Ticketmaster and Live Nation (which is still the same company somehow unless something dramatically changes in the next few months), your guess is honestly as good as mine.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 3, 2023 15:16:59 GMT -5
Though the pre-sale tomorrow is without a password isn't it? Its just Ticketmaster presale? Which is what exactly?! I dont think its sunk in yet that Im going. At the same time im panicking about my seats but realise there will be big screens and an electric atmosphere. I was kind of having the same thing when I went to Mania, didn't really believe I was going until I was in the building and kept expecting something to come up. ... Funny enough I actually DID have an issue getting my ticket read but it was just a matter of my cellphone's brightness not being up high enough.
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Post by Kalmia on May 3, 2023 15:35:10 GMT -5
Though the pre-sale tomorrow is without a password isn't it? Its just Ticketmaster presale? Which is what exactly?! I dont think its sunk in yet that Im going. At the same time im panicking about my seats but realise there will be big screens and an electric atmosphere. Considering it’s both Ticketmaster and Live Nation (which is still the same company somehow unless something dramatically changes in the next few months), your guess is honestly as good as mine. From help.ticketmaster.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360006437774-What-is-a-presale-
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 3, 2023 15:53:22 GMT -5
That both answers and doesn’t answer my question at the same time, which must be the full Ticketmaster experience.
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Post by Kalmia on May 3, 2023 16:10:35 GMT -5
That both answers and doesn’t answer my question at the same time, which must be the full Ticketmaster experience. The Live Nation one seems pretty straightforward but the Ticketmaster one seems to be you'll get a code if they like you.
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Post by lucaslawless on May 3, 2023 16:27:41 GMT -5
Though the pre-sale tomorrow is without a password isn't it? Its just Ticketmaster presale? Which is what exactly?! I dont think its sunk in yet that Im going. At the same time im panicking about my seats but realise there will be big screens and an electric atmosphere. I was kind of having the same thing when I went to Mania, didn't really believe I was going until I was in the building and kept expecting something to come up. ... Funny enough I actually DID have an issue getting my ticket read but it was just a matter of my cellphone's brightness not being up high enough. Last mania and last wrestling event I was at was Wrestlemania 21 so I'm just happy to be going to another!
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Post by Kalmia on May 3, 2023 17:16:05 GMT -5
Caught an airing of Rampage on ITV4 this evening and there was an ad for Wembley. Not in the show, but in the actual ad breaks. I wonder if they're going to advertise across ITV in other shows as well.
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Post by rajaah on May 3, 2023 23:28:05 GMT -5
I can't believe that Twitter Vincel really said "Imagine if WWE lied about tickets sold how people would react" like it hasn't already happened lol. Also, with 43k tickets sold, this officially makes All In the most tickets sold for a non-WWE American company for a single wrestling event, surpassing the July 1998 WCW Nitro in the Georgia Dome (which sold about 41,400 tickets). This isn't counting the infamous North Korean WCW/NJPW Collision in Korea show. I want to say it's going to be the most for any single event from any non-WWE company, but I don't know if any of the Tokyo Dome shows or major Mexican lucha libre shows did even better. I know Wrestle Kingdom regularly does in the high 30k-low 40k range per night at least, but not sure what their record attendance for a single night was. Someone likely beat me to it, but I believe New Japan's record for a show is about 67k. Several Inoki-era shows did numbers like that, as well as the NJPW/WCW crossover show that took place in Tokyo in 1992 or so. So AEW has slain WCW's record, next up is NJPW's record, and then... Summerslam '92? Maybe!
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Post by Feargus McReddit on May 4, 2023 1:08:18 GMT -5
So the AEW Partners sale is a sort of Part Two to the FITE sale? Which means to me that if you are subscribed to a channel that airs AEW that isn’t in the bracket of FITE, you should probably check your email right now.
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Post by ssdrivin on May 4, 2023 1:54:28 GMT -5
6,000 ECW US (Anarchy Rulz @ Odeum Sports & Expo Center, IL US, 1999) 8,100 TNA US (House show? @ Wembley Arena, London GB, 2009) 20,177 AEW US (Dynamite Grand Slam @ Arthur Ashe Stadium, NY US, 2022) (Previous AEW record) 38,000 NWA US (Pat O'Connor vs. Buddy Rogers @ Comiskey Park, IL US, 1961) 41,412 WCW US (Nitro @ Georgia Dome, GA US, 1998) >43,000 AEW US (All In @ Wembley Stadium, London GB, 2023) (Pre-Sale) 57,127 UFC US (UFC 243 @ Marvel Stadium, Melbourne AU, 2019) 58,250 FMW JP (6th Anniversary Show @ Kawasaki Stadium, Kawasaki JP, 1995) 58,300 AJPW JP (25th Anniversary Show @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1998) 60,000 UWF JP (U-Cosmos @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1989) 62,000 NOAH JP (Destiny @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 2005) 62,296 WWE US (Clash at the Castle @ Principality Stadium, Cardiff GB, 2022) (Most recent UK WWE PLE) 64,500 WCW/NJPW US/JP (Starrcade '91 @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1991) 65,000 TPW JP (TPW in Atami @ Sun Beach, Atami JP, 1996) 70,000 NJPW JP (Inoki Retirement Show @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1998) 80,355 WWF US (SummerSlam '92 @ Wembley Stadium (pre-rebuild), London GB, 1992) (Last WWF/WWE event at Wembley Stadium) 101,763 WWE US (WM32 @ AT&T Stadium, TX US, 2016)
Well, that didn't turn out looking as pretty as I'd have liked... but I did it, so it's staying, haha. Made it marginally more readable.
Added some Japanese attendance records, for more context.
Maybe they don't max out the stadium with this, but they're already ahead of two-thirds of "the big three" plus TNA and any NWA promotion record, closing in on UFC's record, and heading convincingly for the bulk of the Japanese promotion records. With no matches announced! That's pretty damn respectable.
Probably worth also bearing in mind that the >100k WWE number there is all-time, many many WWE/WWF events would've drawn much lower numbers than that. Not to mention it being a WrestleMania and the numbers probably being at least a little bit kayfabed.
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Post by lucaslawless on May 4, 2023 3:03:44 GMT -5
Seems like the west 100 sections are open now which is where the hard cams are. Getting results for 131-136. There were 400+ in front in the queue when I clicked and refreshing put me back in a queue of 50/70 people. I figured sales would slow down a bit now.
I wonder if general sale will be a success considering probably the people who definitely want to be there now have their tickets?
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 4, 2023 3:03:52 GMT -5
6,000 ECW US (Anarchy Rulz @ Odeum Sports & Expo Center, IL US, 1999) 8,100 TNA US (House show? @ Wembley Arena, London GB, 2009) 20,177 AEW US (Dynamite Grand Slam @ Arthur Ashe Stadium, NY US, 2022) (Previous AEW record) 38,000 NWA US (Pat O'Connor vs. Buddy Rogers @ Comiskey Park, IL US, 1961) 41,412 WCW US (Nitro @ Georgia Dome, GA US, 1998) >43,000 AEW US (All In @ Wembley Stadium, London GB, 2023) (Pre-Sale) 57,127 UFC US (UFC 243 @ Marvel Stadium, Melbourne AU, 2019) 58,250 FMW JP (6th Anniversary Show @ Kawasaki Stadium, Kawasaki JP, 1995) 58,300 AJPW JP (25th Anniversary Show @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1998) 60,000 UWF JP (U-Cosmos @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1989) 62,000 NOAH JP (Destiny @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 2005) 62,296 WWE US (Clash at the Castle @ Principality Stadium, Cardiff GB, 2022) (Most recent UK WWE PLE) 64,500 WCW/NJPW US/JP (Starrcade '91 @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1991) 65,000 TPW JP (TPW in Atami @ Sun Beach, Atami JP, 1996) 70,000 NJPW JP (Inoki Retirement Show @ Tokyo Dome, Tokyo JP, 1998) 80,355 WWF US (SummerSlam '92 @ Wembley Stadium (pre-rebuild), London GB, 1992) (Last WWF/WWE event at Wembley Stadium) 101,763 WWE US (WM32 @ AT&T Stadium, TX US, 2016) Well, that didn't turn out looking as pretty as I'd have liked... but I did it, so it's staying, haha. Made it marginally more readable. Added some Japanese attendance records, for more context. Maybe they don't max out the stadium with this, but they're already ahead of two-thirds of "the big three" plus TNA and any NWA promotion record, closing in on UFC's record, and heading convincingly for the bulk of the Japanese promotion records. With no matches announced! That's pretty damn respectable. Probably worth also bearing in mind that the >100k WWE number there is all-time, many many WWE/WWF events would've drawn much lower numbers than that. Not to mention it being a WrestleMania and the numbers probably being at least a little bit kayfabed. I think they could hit third on this list very easily, if not eventually second if the stadium is maxed out.
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Post by lucaslawless on May 4, 2023 3:19:45 GMT -5
Wembley Stadium's official site now has tickets on sale with more 100 sections open on the east/TV side.
Still cant select your actual seats though!
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Post by Herman The Tosser on May 4, 2023 3:37:25 GMT -5
Got everything booked up this morning. Trains, hotel, got my ticket for the show booked a few minutes ago, so I'm going.
I've only ever attended house shows before, so I'm excited for this!
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