Last week it was announced that AEW Collision would be moving to a GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio. The show had sold just over 1,000 tickets at the 20,000-seat Nationwide Arena before it was announced that they were moving to GalaxyCon. Collision attendance has continued to drop and some have called on the company to run smaller venues to better capture the crowd’s enthusiasm. Per Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, it appears that this will be 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 that he’s heard from people in AEW who have been advocating for the company to run smaller venues.
He added, “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.”
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