AEW is closing on WWE’s all-time attendance number.
It was reported by Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that All In tickets sold/out are at 65,584. The event sold the bulk of those tickets on the first day.
The 60,000 tickets ($7.7 million gate) puts them first or second all-time for the largest “first day” ticket sales events in history, already surpassing the 55,000 first day ticket sales for WWE SummerSlam 1992. Meltzer reports that the largest first day number would have been the 2016 WrestleMania at AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
As for scalpers, there are less than 900 tickets on the secondary market, which is much lower than what you would see for most wrestling and non-wrestling events. Perhaps, the main reason for this is because fans were asked to pre-register and a unique link was sent to each email address and that makes it harder for scalpers to buy tickets in bulk.
Meltzer also reported that All In has broken the paid attendance number (53,999) that WWE drew for Clash at the Castle.
Meltzer also wrote this on the attendance records:
“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 looks like it has beaten both nights of WrestleMania at SoFi Stadium. Both nights had an estimated 60,000 paid but the official numbers won’t be out until the WWE financial reports are out. The next number that AEW could break, although it will be tough, will be the WrestleMania III attendance at the Pontiac Silverdome. The “entertainment” number given by WWE has been 93,173 but internal documents list the attendance around 78,000.
Predictably, AEW All In ticket sales have slowed down since the first day but nothing has been announced for the show and once Collision is announced and they get some storylines going for the summer, they should get a boost when they announce some matches. They are currently set up for 74,000 fans but if they sell those tickets out then there is room to open up more seats.
The WWE all-time record is 79,800 paid and 80,709 for WrestleMania 32 in 2016 which was headlined by Roman Reigns vs. Triple H. The “entertainment” number listed for that show is 101,763 fans.
