AEW: same-market, same-event type comparisons for June 2024

-26% on 6/26/2024 in Buffalo, NY for Dynamite: 4,117 (from 5,544 on 9/7/2022)

WWE: same-market, same-event type comparisons for June 2024

+2% on 6/1/2024 in White Plains, NY for House show: 4,295 (from 4,202 on 6/3/2023)
+70% on 6/2/2024 in Binghamton, NY for House show: 4,274 (from 2,521 on 1/22/2023)
+0% on 6/3/2024 in Hershey, PA for Raw: 9,176 (from 9,140 on 5/22/2023)
+8% on 6/7/2024 in Louisville, KY for Smackdown: 9,919 (from 9,189 on 8/25/2023)
+9% on 6/10/2024 in Toledo, OH for Raw: 6,878 (from 6,302 on 1/24/2022)
-8% on 6/21/2024 in Rosemont, IL for Smackdown: 14,698 (from 15,937 on 11/24/2023)
+121% on 6/23/2024 in Kalamazoo, MI for House show: 4,238 (from 1,917 on 12/11/2022)
+123% on 6/24/2024 in Indianapolis, IN for Raw: 11,316 (from 5,080 on 2/14/2022)
+31% on 6/28/2024 in New York, NY for Smackdown: 17,843 (from 13,617 on 7/7/2023)

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).

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