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Information here listed as “Ticket sales revenue” and “Tickets sold” is new data sourced from Pollstar.
WWE Money in the Bank, 7/1/2023 @ The O2 (London, UK)
- Tickets sales revenue: £2,615,789 GBP ($3,323,751 USD)
- Tickets sold: 15,471
- WrestleTix estimated tickets distributed: 17,617
- Announced attendance: 18,885
Adjusting for inflation, this is roughly the fourth-highest non-stadium WWE gate ever. It’s only behind (1) Wrestlemania 5 in Atlantic City in 1989 ($1.63 million at the time, adjusting to $3.99 million in today’s money), (2) Wrestlemania 20 at Madison Square Garden in 2004 ($2.4M, adjusting to $3.9M), (3) Wrestlemania 22 in Chicago ($2.5M adjusting to $3.8M). This year’s Money in the Bank was very close and possibly ahead of Wrestlemania 21 in Los Angeles ($2.1M converting to $3.3M). The reported gate for Wrestlemania 21 (found on prowrestlinghistory.com and likely sourced from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter) seems to be rounded to the nearest $100,000, making it hard to know with better precision how it compares.
WWE said this event set a new gate record for any non-stadium WWE event ever. Not adjusting for inflation, I’m not aware of any non-stadium gate that would be higher.
WWE Smackdown, 6/30/2023 @ The O2 (London, UK)
- Tickets sold: 15,255
- Ticket sales revenue: £1,461,582 GBP ($1,845,401 USD)
- WrestleTix estimated tickets distributed: 17,604
WWE said this event set a new all-time high for any Smackdown gate ever. Unless some key records are missing that we don’t have, that is true, even adjusting for inflation. The closest comparison to this Smackdown is when WWE had a two-day run in London in April 2008, taping Raw and Smackdown, also at The O2. Together, the two events grossed £1,252,959, which adjusts to £1,588,344 GBP today. So the Smackdown event in London in 2008 probably grossed about half that amount, or about £794,000 in today’s money. This single Smackdown event in 2023 by itself nearly eclipsed both April 2008 Raw and Smackdown events combined.
Adding Money in the Bank’s $3.2 million to the Smackdown gate and WWE’s two-day visit to London this year drew a combined $5,169,152 USD (£4,077,371 GBP) in ticket sales.
ROH Death Before Dishonor, 7/21/2023 @ CURE Insurance Arena (Trenton, NJ)
- Tickets sold: 2,048
- Ticket sales revenue: $104,545
- WrestleTix estimated tickets distributed: 2,898
I’m not aware of other recent ROH live gates to compare this with. Estimated tickets distributed from WrestleTix for recent ROH pay-per-views were 4,472; 2,602; and 2,498 for, respectively, Supercard of Honor (March in Los Angeles), Final Battle (last December in Arlington, TX), and last year’s Final Battle (last year July in Boston).
UFC 290, 7/8/2023 @ T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, NV)
- Tickets sold: 17,835
- Tickets sales revenue: $9,273,325
- Announced attendance: 19,204
- Announced gate: $9,750,000
The discrepancy between UFC 290’s announced gate and the Pollstar revenue number could be due to the announced gate including ticket service fees, which may also explain differences between announced gates from WWE and data obtained independently through Pollstar or records requests.
All WWE main roster and AEW PPV/PLE gates in 2023 year-to-date
“Tickets sold” and “Gate” data in the charts below are from Pollstar or were previously reported by Wrestlenomics via public records requests.
Not sure how these will scale on Patreon, so here are full-scale images of the charts:
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Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.