All ticketing data here represents estimated tickets distributed (sales plus comps), sourced from WrestleTix.
AEW: same-market, same-event type comparisons for Nov 2023
- -19% on 11/22/2023 in Chicago, IL for Dynamite: 5,066 (from 6,291 on 6/21/2023)
- -16% on 11/29/2023 in Minneapolis, MN for Dynamite: 4,648 (from 5,562 on 8/10/2022)
WWE: same-market, same-event type comparisons for Nov 2023
- +32% on 11/4/2023 in Rochester, NY for House show: 4,789 (from 3,627 on 12/3/2022)
- +28% on 11/6/2023 in Wilkes-Barre, PA for Raw: 7,308 (from 5,731 on 11/7/2022)
- -20% on 11/10/2023 in Columbus, OH for Smackdown: 7,805 (from 9,809 on 4/21/2023)
- +21% on 11/11/2023 in Johnson City, TN for House show: 4,550 (from 3,748 on 3/19/2022)
- -12% on 11/12/2023 in Roanoke, VA for House show: 3,951 (from 4,466 on 1/14/2023)
- +22% on 11/13/2023 in Washington, DC for Raw: 9,942 (from 8,125 on 12/5/2022)
- -29% on 11/17/2023 in Evansville, IN for Smackdown: 5,990 (from 8,411 on 2/24/2023)
- +9% on 11/18/2023 in Canton, OH for House show: 3,997 (from 3,655 on 5/21/2022)
- +8% on 11/19/2023 in Saginaw, MI for House show: 3,357 (from 3,095 on 12/10/2022)
- -17% on 11/20/2023 in Grand Rapids, MI for Raw: 7,447 (from 8,951 on 2/27/2023)
- +24% on 11/24/2023 in Chicago, IL for Smackdown: 15,937 (from 12,844 on 12/16/2022)
- -31% on 11/26/2023 in Peoria, IL for House show: 3,069 (from 4,457 on 11/12/2022)
- +14% on 11/27/2023 in Nashville, TN for Raw: 10,521 (from 9,218 on 1/2/2023)
Methodology
“Same-market, same-event type comparison” here means we’re looking at the estimated tickets distributed and comparing that number against the last time the same event type was in that market.
This is the most meaningful way I’ve found to assess live event business. It allows us to avoid problems with comparing different markets to one another (e.g., New York, NY tends to have bigger crowds than Huntsville, AL) and different event types (e.g., PPVs draw better than Raw or Smackdown, which draw better than house shows).
