WWE & AEW live event analysis for June and Q2: WWE dominates the quarter

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All data here relies on tickets distributed estimates based on analysis of ticket maps by WrestleTix.

WWE’s performance in live events continues to be overwhelmingly favorable.

All six direct same-event type market-to-market comparisons for WWE in June were positive: Raw events in Cleveland, Wichita, and Hartford; Smackdown in Wilkes-Barre; house shows in Charleston, Manchester (New Hampshire).

A house show in Cincinnati outperformed two of the three most recent Raw tapings there, only short of the most Raw in the market from January.

Smackdown set a new higher for its quarterly average since the return to touring from the pandemic, with an average estimate of 10,344, up 46% from the same quarter last year. Raw was up 38%. The average house show was up 52% while the total was up 11% as there were six fewer house shows in the quarter.

AEW’s results were mixed at best. The promotion ran nine events in June, a new monthly high as the company held tapings for its new weekly show Collision and two house shows.

Dynamite in Washington, DC delivered a better number than either of the two previous Dynamite tapings there in 2022. Dynamite in Chicago at the Wintrust Arena was essentially flat from the taping there in November.

Dynamite in Colorado Springs was estimated at just under 3,000, which is the lowest estimate for a Dynamite since the taping in Baltimore last year on November 2.

Early numbers for the Collision taping in Hamilton were weak and the final number probably includes a higher portion of comps than the usual event.

The average estimate for Dynamite was down 20% from the same quarter last year.

Market-to-market tables for June

Quarterly trends update through Q2 (Apr to Jun)


Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He’s also worked as an independent wrestler and trainer.


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