AEW is closing in on WWE’s all-time attendance record.
According to Dave Meltzer’s report in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the number of All In tickets that have been sold out is 65,584. The majority of those tickets were sold on the first day of the event.
With 60,000 tickets sold ($7.7 million gate), they are already outpacing the 55,000 first-day ticket sales for WWE SummerSlam 1992 as the largest “first day” ticket sales events in history. According to Meltzer, the 2016 WrestleMania at AT&T Stadium in Dallas would have had the highest first-day attendance.
Less than 900 tickets are available on the secondary market, which is significantly fewer than what is typical for wrestling and non-wrestling events. Perhaps the main cause of this is that ticket scalpers find it more difficult to purchase tickets in bulk because fans were asked to pre-register and a special link was sent to each email address.
Meltzer also stated that All In has surpassed the paid attendance number (53,999) set by WWE for Clash at the Castle.
On the attendance logs, Meltzer also noted the following:
“At this point, it will be the largest gate outside the United States and be the third largest verifiable paid crowd outside the U.S. It will not be close to the biggest gate due to higher prices for WrestleMania, nor even the largest gate of this year because of the two days of Mania.”
Furthermore, All In appears to have beaten both nights of WrestleMania at SoFi Stadium. The estimated attendance for each night was 60,000, but the precise figures won’t be available until the WWE financial reports are released. The attendance at WrestleMania III at the Pontiac Silverdome will be the next record that AEW might surpass, though it will be difficult. Internal records indicate that the actual attendance was closer to 78,000 than the “entertainment” number WWE has reported as being 93,173.
As expected, AEW All In ticket sales have slowed since the first day, but no matches have been announced for the event, so they should see an increase once Collision is announced and they start developing some storylines for the summer. Currently, they can accommodate 74,000 spectators, but if all of those tickets are sold, additional seats can be made available.
Roman Reigns vs. Triple H at WrestleMania 32 in 2016 set a WWE record of 79,800 paid and 80,709 for the event as a whole. That show’s “entertainment” number is 101,763 fans.
