AEW presented its Full Gear event from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and was a success on pay-per-view.
The show
The show was headlined by MJF retaining the World Heavyweight Title over Jay White. The show also featured the signing of top international wrestler Will Ospreay to AEW, Toni Storm defeating Hikaru Shida to win her record-tying third AEW Women’s World Title, and Swerve Strickland defeating “Hangman” Adam Page in a classic Texas Death match.
Coming out of the show while speaking to the media after the AEW PPV event, AEW President Tony Khan noted the show is looking to have done over 100,000 buys and was going to finish above WrestleDream.
Drawing power
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that the streaming numbers look to be about 15 percent or more above WrestleDream and could be more than 20 percent.
Meltzer wrote, “Because of the holiday, our TV PPV numbers aren’t complete with one major system we usually get not factored into this, and it’s a system AEW usually doesn’t do well with. But based on the numbers we have as compared to the same number of days after the show, the numbers are up 33.3 percent from the same period for WrestleDream, but WrestleDream also didn’t do well on cable/sat. They are down 17.1 percent from Forbidden Door at the same period. Based on that, you’re looking at 122,000 to 140,000, with how well the late buys do being the key factor.”
We should have a better idea of how the show did next week.
