AEW is slated to hold its inaugural WrestleDream pay-per-view event on Sunday, October 1, in Seattle, WA, but ticket sales are looking flat.
The show is a tribute event to the late great Antonio Inoki. However, the show that will honor the life and career of NJPW’s founder won’t have top New Japan Pro Wrestling stars on it.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that the show has sold 5,005 tickets and “ it looks to be the lowest PPV audience since the pandemic.”
WrestleTix reports the show is set up for 7,566. The last time they were at the venue was for a January 2023 episode of Dynamite.
Looking back, that’s the case if you count shows at Daily’s Place during this time. They had fewer people in attendance because of the guidelines in place at that time. The lowest attendance PPVs after the pandemic when AEW went back on the road in the summer of 2021 and not held at Daily’s Place include All Out with 10,126 in 2021, Revolution with 8,359 in 2022, and thus far in 2023, 9,000 with Double or Nothing.
The pre-show starts at 7pm ET, while the main card starts at 8pm ET. Here is the updated card:
Singles Match:
Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Singles Match:
Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland
AEW Tag Team Championship Match:
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (champions) vs. Aussie Open
ROH Tag Team Championship Match:
Adam Cole & MJF (champions) vs. TBA
