Last Monday, it was announced that AEW Collision would head to GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio. Before it was reported that the show would be moving to GalaxyCon, it had sold slightly more than 1,000 tickets at the 20,000-seat Nationwide Arena. Collision attendance has continued to decline, and some have suggested that the company use smaller venues to better capture the crowd’s passion. According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, it appears that this is happening.
“I’m gonna be kind of vague but it’s happening,” Alvarez said. “I just don’t know all the technical details.” Alvarez said he has heard from AEW employees who have advocated for the company to operate smaller venues.
He continued, “I have been told that there is headway being made in running smaller buildings. Now you hear that and think, why does headway need to be made? Just book smaller buildings. Well apparently, there actually was a logistical reason why they were running a lot of larger buildings and it had to do with the set and in particular, the lighting rig. There was something that they had in their set that was basically too large and heavy to get into smaller buildings and so they have been working on retooling it so they can actually get their set into smaller buildings. So I think as the year 2025 kind of starts coming in, they’ve been talking about different ideas for production and everything like that. I think we’re going to finally get the move. There are gonna be smaller buildings. They’re gonna work on some production and hopefully, that will be a positive in terms of how the show looks, sounds. etc. on television. And they will save a lot of money.”
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
