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Post by Jaws the Shark on Aug 18, 2023 17:56:30 GMT -5
Also think Punk will pre-emt that and play the heel, wear a man utd shirt or something. If anything this'll get him a face reaction in London.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Aug 18, 2023 18:00:22 GMT -5
Anyone buying this mostly because of the crowd?
I wanna see that many people and just how crazy it gets. I’m not all that excited for the card admittedly but it feels like a true “event”.
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Post by Totorob101 on Aug 18, 2023 18:42:21 GMT -5
I have absolutley no knowledge about the financial side of things but If AEW gets the record for the biggest audience in wrestling history,would AEW have had the most successful single wrestling event of all time more then any wrestlemania ever? Lets say Kenny Omega main events it too, would he have claim to being just as big a draw then Austin Hogan etc even if this is just a one off event? Not even those guys pulled in the potential gate AEW are getting here and they have worked pretty big events themselves. I guess its my sheer dislike of WWE talking here but man i just want WWE to finally get knocked of the top of the wrestling tree and this event i hope does give them a slight nudge.
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 18, 2023 19:03:02 GMT -5
It's kinda crazy that AEW is only a few hundred tickets away from having the biggest legit crowd at a wrestling event that wasn't forced to attend by a totalitarian government.
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Aug 18, 2023 19:09:10 GMT -5
FTR/Bucks is still happening.
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mattyy
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Post by mattyy on Aug 18, 2023 19:15:36 GMT -5
So MJF/Cole main events, or Bucks/Revival?
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markymark
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Post by markymark on Aug 18, 2023 19:40:46 GMT -5
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FinalGwen
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Post by FinalGwen on Aug 18, 2023 20:00:41 GMT -5
Crazy bastards did it. Gonna be fun to be a part of history, even if I'm not looking forward to the chaos getting back home after.
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Post by Schizo on Aug 18, 2023 20:17:34 GMT -5
Happy for them, hopefully this mean we are going to have two very healthy financially ran promotions for many years to come
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Post by Error on Aug 18, 2023 20:51:20 GMT -5
Should AEW go for WWE accounting with this? They've got the legit record, how about the big time record? 81k with another 40k working?
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 18, 2023 21:01:05 GMT -5
I'm guessing we'll at least get a ludicrous-sounding "Entertainment Purposes" number on BTE. Not sure if AEW will do it themselves or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they generously round up to 100k or something lol.
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Post by Dub H on Aug 18, 2023 21:09:52 GMT -5
Thats a lot of people buying tickets just to buy t-shirts.
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jm
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Post by jm on Aug 18, 2023 21:27:32 GMT -5
They officially passed the WM 32 record?
Hmm, not bad for a pissant secondary t-shirt company.
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Post by DMO- on Aug 19, 2023 1:26:00 GMT -5
Tbh I knew WWE padded attendance numbers but how did they get away with wrestlemania 32 being 80,000 with them saying it was 102,000 or some crazy number like that?
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Post by daaave on Aug 19, 2023 3:18:02 GMT -5
Tbh I knew WWE padded attendance numbers but how did they get away with wrestlemania 32 being 80,000 with them saying it was 102,000 or some crazy number like that? And why did they do it anyway. They held all the records anyway. If they were honest the record charts would still look same. I wonder if it was because they massively padded WM3 all those years ago and then trapped in their own web of deceit. So when they legit best WM3 they couldn't just say 80k, they had to say 100k coz they told everyone WM3 was 90k etc
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 19, 2023 3:25:14 GMT -5
Tbh I knew WWE padded attendance numbers but how did they get away with wrestlemania 32 being 80,000 with them saying it was 102,000 or some crazy number like that? Kayfabe. That was essentially why Vince said they did it at the time in the shareholders meeting. The big number was part of the show and should only be treated like it. Which doesn’t justify it but you can kind of get it? Especially since they were at the new AT&T Stadium so wanted to make a big impression to the audience.
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Post by Viking Hall on Aug 19, 2023 4:10:37 GMT -5
Anyone buying this mostly because of the crowd? I wanna see that many people and just how crazy it gets. I’m not all that excited for the card admittedly but it feels like a true “event”. Oh we're going to bring the noise don't you worry. Bank Holiday too so no work on Monday which means the beers will be flowing. I can't remember bring this excited for an event since I was a kid.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Aug 19, 2023 5:28:24 GMT -5
Not bad going for a four-year old fed.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Aug 19, 2023 5:41:55 GMT -5
Did anyone else notice on Smackdown that WWE is immediately trying to list a higher number for Mania next year and ignoring that they're mostly the same people over 2 days?
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Post by Kalmia on Aug 19, 2023 5:47:12 GMT -5
Did anyone else notice on Smackdown that WWE is immediately trying to list a higher number for Mania next year and ignoring that they're mostly the same people over 2 days? A lot of the WWE fans (you know, the crazy ones, not the reasonable ones) are spouting that as a gotcha already. They seem unable to grasp the difference between selling tickets for two shows and tickets for one.
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