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Post by cornettesracket on Aug 27, 2023 13:24:21 GMT -5
Just going through the article from Brandon Thurston and the observer newsletter reports from meltzer and on April 13th, 1987 he said the paid attendance was 90,873 for WM III. February 8th, 1988 it was stated by the WON as 90,000 paid when talking about WM IV and the fact the live gate would be higher for that upcoming mania. January 23rd, 1989 90,817 April 17th ,1989 90, 873 May 8th. 1989 90,817 PAID attendance December 18th, 1989 90,817 again February 19th, 1990 90,817 again April 20th, 1992 90, 873 January 15th 1993 90,817 February 8th 1993 90,817 PAID February 7th 1994 90,873 The November 14th 1994 issue is from what Brandon Thurston hard work is the first example he found of the 78,000 number being stated as the real number. The question is what changed ? In the video posted yesterday, Thurston said that based on his own research, he believes WM III had around 80,000 people in the regular seats and about 6,000 people on the field. Good on him for having the patience to try and count the seats on the field. I don’t think the number is 93,173 in a million years, but my issue is it can’t be the 78,000 attendance. |
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Post by cornettesracket on Aug 27, 2023 15:53:54 GMT -5
Just going through the article from Brandon Thurston and the observer newsletter reports from meltzer and on April 13th, 1987 he said the paid attendance was 90,873 for WM III. February 8th, 1988 it was stated by the WON as 90,000 paid when talking about WM IV and the fact the live gate would be higher for that upcoming mania. January 23rd, 1989 90,817 April 17th ,1989 90, 873 May 8th. 1989 90,817 PAID attendance December 18th, 1989 90,817 again February 19th, 1990 90,817 again April 20th, 1992 90, 873 January 15th 1993 90,817 February 8th 1993 90,817 PAID February 7th 1994 90,873 The November 14th 1994 issue is from what Brandon Thurston hard work is the first example he found of the 78,000 number being stated as the real number. The question is what changed ? Dave has said it was years later when Bresloff gave him the real number. This is not exactly Unsolved Mysteries. Lost in all of this "well Dave is lying because he hates WWE" talk is that Dave has outright said before that if the Silverdome could have held 93k, it would have that night. We have two sides to this argument, one is somebody who has been reporting on this stuff for 40 years and the other is a company that has admitted to lying about the attendance of multiple shows multiple times. I know which side I'm going with on this one. Okay but prior to him getting the number he claims is the real number, my question is why did he put in print that the 90,000 figure was a paid number ? He was surely talking to people that gave him that number. |
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